A new resource from Public Agenda finds that colleges that prioritize family engagement, support systems and investments in ...

Editor’s note: This story is part of Dispatches from Abroad, a series highlighting UChicago community members who are researching, studying and working around the world. Every summer, the hallways of ...

After taking Advanced Placement (AP) environmental science in high school — and loving it — Emma Aucker, now a senior environmental and resource economics (ENRE) major at the University of Delaware, ...

In 1776, Adam Smith famously wrote: “It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we can expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.” Economists ...

Christmas shopping is always better with friends. When those friends are festively clad classmates with a common goal of ...

Recruited athletes are more likely to concentrate in economics than the rest of the student body, according to data from The Herald’s First-Year Poll. Poll data found that about 17% of recruited ...

W ith widespread delays holding up tens of thousands of foreign students worldwide from getting their visas, the “U.S. economy could suffer a loss of $7 billion,” a higher-education group warned ...

A Northwestern University professor has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his historical studies on sustained economic growth through technological progress. Joel Mokyr, who has ...