University of Chicago
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The University of Chicago, located in the neighborhood of Hyde Park on Chicago's South Side, features numerous prestigious programs, including an undergraduate college that is highly regarded. Though Baptists were involved in the founding of the University, it has remained strictly secular.
The University of Chicago (http://www-news.uchicago.edu/resources/brief-history.html), according to the university's history, "was founded in 1890 by the American Baptist Education Society and oil magnate John D. Rockefeller, who later described the University of Chicago as 'the best investment I ever made.' The land for the new university, in the recently annexed suburb of Hyde Park, was donated by Marshall Field, owner of the Chicago department store that bears his name."
Also see Wikipedia: University of Chicago (http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Chicago).
At the same time Baptists funded the new University, they established within the University a School of Divinity. The University remained a mainstay of Baptist tradition through the Jim Crow era when Baptists provided spiritual leadership and absolution for leaders enforcing segregation laws and laymen commiting outright violence against African Americans.
In 1942, University faculty ignited the world's first anthropogenically initiated nuclear reaction under bleachers at a University football field, sparking the nuclear age. The University provided enriched uranium for the Manhattan Project and for the two atomic bombs US forces used against Japanese civilians. [1] (http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/projects/centcat/centcats/city/citych4_01.html)
Since the 1940s, the University has been an academic powerhouse, accumulating more nobel laureates than any other American institution. Its physics, mathematics, sociology, and economics departments are particularly influential. Many of the great conservative economists of the 20th century, including Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek, and Richard Posner have taught/are teaching at Chicago.
Among current faculty are included John Mearshimer, Mark Hansen (Political Science); Milton Friedman, Gary Becker, Stephen Levitt, Robert Fogel (Economics); Richard Posner (Law), James Redfield (Classics), JM Coetzee and David Bevington (English).
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University of Chicago Alumni and Former/Current Faculty
- Janet Ashcroft
- John David Ashcroft
- Saul Bellow
- Allan Bloom
- Robert H. Bork
- John H. Bryan
- Ahmed Chalabi
- Owen Chamberlain
- Jon S. Corzine
- Kenneth W. Dam
- Frank Easterbrook
- Gary Edson
- Richard Epstein
- Enrico Fermi
- William Galston
- Hillel Fradkin
- Milton Friedman
- Friedrich Hayek
- Seymour Hersh
- James C. Ho
- Samuel P. Huntington
- Fred C. Ikle
- Harry V. Jaffa
- Leon Kass
- Rashid Khalidi
- Zalmay Khalilzad
- Paul Kozemchak (DARPA)
- Andrew Marshall
- Michael H. Mobbs
- Carol Moseley-Braun
- Ralph Neas
- Talat Othman
- Peter G. Peterson
- Richard A. Posner
- David Rockefeller
- Gary J. Schmitt
- George P. Shultz
- Abram Shulsky
- Henry D. Sokolski
- Leo Strauss
- James Q. Wilson
- Albert Wohlstetter
- Paul Dundes Wolfowitz
- Adam Wolfson Editor, The Public Interest (http://www.thepublicinterest.com/staff.html)
Images
- Letter to "Office of Scientific Research" (http://www.prwatch.org/upload/a/aa/City_img41_lrg.jpg) confirming the university's role in development of Weapons of Mass Destruction
External Links
- Francis A. Boyle, "My Alma Mater is a Moral Cesspool". Neo-Cons, Fundies, Feddies and the University of Chicago (http://www.counterpunch.org/boyle08022003.html), CounterPunch, August 2, 2003.
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