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Tetsuo Najita, eminent scholar of Japan’s early modern and modern intellectual history, 1936-2021
Professor Emeritus Tetsuo Najita, whose work as an historian sought to recoup and to explore the agency of ordinary people, commoner-intellectuals...

For Lyft users, time is money—now, we know how much
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This story was originally published by UChicago News. Read it on their site here. Study suggests the U.S. may undervalue timesaving transportation ...

Yiran Fan, Ph.D. student ‘beloved by all who knew him,’ 1990-2021
Campus community mourns loss of exceptional scholar and kind friend Members of the University of Chicago community are mourning the loss of graduat...

Remembering Yiran Fan
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This message was sent by Dean Amanda Woodward to faculty, students, and staff in the Division fo the Social Sciences on Sunday, January 10, 2021. D...

Creating history’: Students interview essential workers during the COVID-19 pandemic
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This story was originally published by UChicago News. Read it on their site here. Oral history project preserves stories of frontline workers in Univ...