Neubauer Collegium selects inaugural research projects
Can digital games help reshape urban adolescents' health decisions? How might economic models be challenged by rigorous economic analysis of historical societies? What new insights can we gain about the world's literary heritage from inquiry into the early writing systems?. In a major milestone, the Neubauer Family Collegium for Culture and Society at the University of Chicago has selected an inaugural cohort of 18 ambitious faculty research projects that tackle these and other complex questions through cross-disciplinary collaboration. Through its research initiatives and robust program of visiting Collegium Faculty Fellows, the Neubauer Collegium will unite scholars in the common pursuit of ideas of grand scale and broad scope, making the University of Chicago a global destination for top scholars engaged in humanistic research while also pioneering efforts to share that research with the public. "Our faculty members have set their sights on areas of great complexity and deep importance, and reached out to their colleagues across the University in hopes of discovering newly collaborative ways of thinking about these questions," said David Nirenberg, director of the Neubauer Collegium. "We are all eager to see the social and scholarly impact of this research, and to share it with our colleagues at UChicago and around the world." The Neubauer Collegium was founded in June 2012 , and is named in honor of Joseph Neubauer, MBA'65, and Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer. Their $26.5 million gift to the University is among the largest in support of the humanities and social sciences in the institution's history.
