Inquiry & Impact
34 videos • 741 views • by The University of Chicago
From addressing global challenges to defining new fields, University of Chicago faculty and visiting scholars explore ideas and innovations that impact our world.
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"The New Jim Crow" - Author Michelle Alexander, George E. Kent Lecture 2013
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UnCommon Core | The New Science of Violence: Understanding Terrorism, Insurgency, and Rebellion
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Cornstarch & Water - Explained by Physicists - Heinrich Jaeger and Scott Waitukaitis
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No One's World: The West, the Rising Rest, and the Coming Global Turn
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Of MOOCs and Global Warming: David Archer Harper Lecture
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Nancy Hopkins, "The Changing Status of Women in Science at MIT: 1999-2011"
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Philippe Guyot-Sionnest on Colloidal Nanoparticle Research
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The Climate Change Forecast: Its Roots and Outlook
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UnCommon Core | The Oriental Institute's Partnership w/ National Museum of Afghanistan, Gil Stein
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Organizing Schools for Improvement
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The Global Energy Crisis: Michael Greenstone (LAB'87) 2016 Harper Lecture
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Motivational Interviewing and Quantum Change, with William R. Miller
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Thirty Million Words Initiative - Parenting Language to Build Children's Brain, Dana Suskind
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Why Are Ants Important? Biodiversity and the Evolution of the Ants: Talk by Corrie Moreau
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Lecture 3 - Blackbody Radiation & Quantum Mechanics
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Evolutionary Trees and Population Genetics: A Family Reunion
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Global Pricing of Pharmaceutical Products: Richard Epstein on the Ethics of Global Health
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Growing up in Chicago’s “Black Belt” - Timuel Black
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Science, History of Science and the Muse of Discovery - Celal Sengor at UChicago
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The Mysteries at Tell Edfu - Discoveries in the Ruins of an Ancient Egyptian Outpost, Nadine Moeller
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How the Atomic Age Began - UChicago and the Beginning of the Nuclear Age
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Witness to history reflects on first nuclear reaction: The story of teenager Ted Petry's atomic job
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Nuclear Reactions: A Complex Legacy — The Complicated History of the First Nuclear Chain Reaction
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Rediscovering Spinosaurus: First Semiaquatic Dinosaur, Paul Sereno
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Poverty, Inequality, and the Role of Government, Evelyn Brodkin
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UnCommon Core | Imperial by Design, John Mearsheimer
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Better Health through DNA Nanorobots, Harper Lecture with Yamuna Krishnan
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Globalization: The Great Debate — Bringing the World Market into Your Classroom, John Branch
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Ethics in Science: Should scientists consider how their discoveries might be misused?
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Tim Wise: "White Privilege, Race Today, and Affirmative Action"
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'63 Boycott: Director Gordon Quinn on the History of Chicago Public School Protests
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Can the political divide be mended by bringing rural and urban students together?
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How LIGO nearly didn’t get built: Walter Massey on the origins of gravitational wave detection
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Watch UChicago alum John Jumper explain the science behind Nobel-winning AlphaFold program
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