WATCH: Coach Julianne Sitch and the UChicago men's soccer team celebrate today's historic NCAA championship win—the first time a woman has led a men’s soccer team to a title.
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Reflecting on the honor of winning a Nobel Prize, Prof. James A. Robinson said Monday at his home: “It’s a little bit emotional. I’m super happy obviously, but very proud and honored,” Robinson said. “It hasn’t quite sunk in yet.”
Prof. James A. Robinson has been awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, for "studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity." He is the 101st scholar associated with UChicago to be named a Nobel laureate.
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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.”
Prof. James A. Robinson, UChicago’s newest @NobelPrize laureate, at his home Oct. 14, after learning he was awarded a share of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2024.
UChicago scientists have invented a soft, flexible semiconductor capable of transmitting information from living tissue to electronics. This major bioelectronics breakthrough could lead to better brain-machine interfaces, biosensors and pacemakers. ms.spr.ly/6012UkG8m
UChicago alum John Jumper, SM’12, PhD’17, shared the @NobelPrize in Chemistry for developing the AI model AlphaFold, which predicts the structure of proteins. He is the 100th member of the UChicago community to earn a Nobel Prize.
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