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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"The University of Chicago"”.
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An Arts Center for the University of Chicago area
Thesis: B. Arch., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 1960
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A study of the provost at the University of Chicago
… published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01
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An Inquiry Into the Development of the University of Chicago Evaluation Movement
… in DSpace on 2014-12-12T19:56:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 8004245.pdf: 12268965 bytes, checksum: 7d7ebac18f1819ab70d8c94cdaf689bf (MD5) Previous issue date: 1979
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The fox and the hedgehog: Liberal education at the University of Chicago
The purpose of this dissertation was to produce a case history of the sixty-year struggle over philosophical direction in the conduct of the undergraduate education program at the University of Chicago, spanning the administrations of its two most influential presidents, William Rainey Harper …
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Gray City of the Midway: The University of Chicago and the Search for American Urban Culture, 1890-1932
This research examines the American industrial city in the early twentieth century and the role of cultural institutions in the shift to an urban-oriented society. In-depth analysis of the University of Chicago’s architecture and planning traces how urban form emerged gradually as an assimilation …
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Assessing the Impact of Pep on Selected Students From a Chicago Public High School (Pilot Enrichment Program, Illinois)
The Pilot Enrichment Program (PEP) is a collaboration between the University of Chicago and the Chicago Public School system to strengthen the educational ties between secondary and post-secondary institutions. It has as its goal that of preparing secondary school youth for college matriculation …
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The Chicago school: A metascientific study
The value of the concept of 'school' in metascience is examined with reference to the 'Chicago School, of sociology during the period from 1900 to 1952. The notion of school is widely used by sociologists in accounting for developments within their discipline. However, the use of schools as a …
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Essays in banking and risk management
… strategies to provide commodity price and weather insurance in the developing world. In Chapter 3 (joint with Professor Rob Townsend from the University of Chicago), we examine how shocks to the price of rubber, an important but volatile Thai export commodity, affect the income, consumption …
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Re-Reading Mead: The Mind-Body Dilemma and Sociology
Despite the growing influence of the works of George Herbert Mead on the development of modern sociological theory, sociologists limit their reading of Mead to only a few of his many writings. Not only has this neglect led to a shallow interpretation of Mead, but it has also led to …
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Saving the Children: Discourses of Race, Nation, and Citizenship in America
This dissertation connects the discourses of race and civilization to the growth of the welfare state in the United States from the second half of the nineteenth century to the 1930s. The growing community concern with poor children in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was contingent on …
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Cooperation without consensus: national discussions and local implementation in general education reform, 1930–1960
This study explores the general education movement of 1930-1960—a movement devoted to revising the content, and methods, of reforming the first two years of postsecondary study for undergraduates. It begins by noting that much of the extant literature focuses on the curricular statements produced …
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Perceptions of Value and Perceived Strengths of Arts Education During an Age of Accountability: Conditions and Qualities That Shape a Citizenry - Implications for Leadership
<p>This research examines the perceptions of arts education during periods of educational efficiency and accountability focusing specifically on the arguments made by advocates for the value of arts education within the Chicago area. It is intended to help leaders understand how we can learn from …
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Sociological Tragedy: Simmel and Weber on Selfhood and Action
This dissertation considers whether Georg Simmel and Max Weber’s “canonisation in opposition” to each other in Anglophone sociology has obscured significant thematic and conceptual connections between them. It employs a genealogical method that focuses on episodic sites of interpretive struggle, …
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A study on city-university partnerships for smart city technologies
On September 14, 2015, the Obama Administration announced its Smart Cities Initiative, a $160 million investment in a range of research and development activities focused on "Smart Cities." The MetroLab Network, a consortium of partnerships involving cities and their universities, was announced as …
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Arthur Raper: Modern realist in the New Deal South
… voice for racial and social equality in the South during the 1920s and 1930s. Son of a white, North Carolina farm family, Raper became allied with modernist voices at Chapel Hill and the University of Chicago. Raper's research was widely discussed through the region and greatly influenced …
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The making of a battle royal: The rise of religious liberalism in Northern Baptist life, 1870-1920
This dissertation traces the development of the liberal hegemony in Northern Baptist seminaries between 1870 and 1920. Chapter 1 surveys the 1920s to ascertain particular issues and individuals identified by the fundamentalists as they attempted to return the Northern Baptist Convention to …
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Learning the ABC's of Ribose Transport Using Biophysical Methods
… transporters comprise a large superfamily of proteins that are involved in a variety of biological phenomenon, from bacterial metabolism to cellular homeostasis, antigen-presentation, and drug resistance. These proteins are implicated in a variety of clinically relevant phenomenon, …
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Statistical Analysis of Structured High-dimensional Data
… and large-scale networks carry excessive amount of information, and can be used to test various scientific hypotheses or discover important patterns in complicated systems. While considerable efforts have been made to analyze high-dimensional data, existing approaches often rely on simple …
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Joseph F.Merrill: Latter-day Saint Commissioner of Education, 1928-1933
Joseph F. Merrill served as Church Commissioner of Education from 1928 to 1933, an era critical in the development of Latter-day Saint Education. During his tenure as commissioner several key developments occurred in Church education, among them the closing of most of the remaining Church …
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Essays in Industrial Organization
This dissertation contains three essays, each of which is pertinent to topics in empirical Industrial Organization. The second and third chapters are coauthored with Matthew H. Shapiro and Amil Petrin, respectively. In the first chapter, any empirical evidence presented in this chapter is derived …
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