UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does University of Chicago mean? 

• UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO (noun)
  The noun UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO has 1 sense:

1. a university in Chicago, Illinois

  Familiarity information: UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A university in Chicago, Illinois

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Instance hypernyms:

university (establishment where a seat of higher learning is housed, including administrative and living quarters as well as facilities for research and teaching)

Holonyms ("University of Chicago" is a part of...):

Chicago; Windy City (largest city in Illinois; a bustling Great Lakes port that extends 26 miles along the southwestern shoreline of Lake Michigan)

 Context examples 

To scientists at the University of Chicago interested in the role rhythm plays in how humans understand language, the differences between these inputs provided an opportunity for experimentation.

(The Rhythms of Sign Language, NSF)

Scientists at the University of Chicago found that gut microbes from healthy human infant donors transplanted into mice protected animals exposed to milk from experiencing allergic reactions, while gut microbes transplanted from infants allergic to milk did not.

(Gut microbes from healthy infants block milk allergy development in mice, National Institutes of Health)

People living in areas that restrict trans fats in foods had fewer hospitalizations for heart attack and stroke compared to residents in areas without restrictions, according to a new study conducted by researchers at the University of Chicago Medicine and Yale School of Medicine.

(Trans Fat Bans Lessen Health Risks, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The researchers from the University of Chicago noticed that sleep deprivation has effects in the body similar to activation of the endocannabinoid (eCB) system, a key player in the brain’s regulation of appetite and energy levels.

(Molecular ties between lack of sleep and weight gain, NIH)

A team led by Dr. Tao Pan at the University of Chicago and Dr. Jonathan Yewdell at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) set out to measure the accuracy of aminoacylation in living cells and animals.

(Genes Can be Read in Different Ways, NIH, US)

A national clinical research group - network of 29 university medical centers, over 185 community hospitals and more than almost 3000 physicians - sponsored by the NCI, with its Central Office headquartered at the University of Chicago, and its Statistical Center located at Duke University, founded in 1955 with a goal of bringing together clinical and laboratory research.

(Cancer and Leukemia Group B, NCI Thesaurus)

A study by the University of Chicago and the University of North Carolina, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shows how these behaviors often inevitably evolve in species that form pair-bonds.

(For species that mate for life, bonding behaviors provide advantages, National Science Foundation)

Banwell and co-author Professor Doug MacAyeal from the University of Chicago had previously suggested that the filling and draining of hundreds of lakes might have led to the catastrophic breakup of the Larsen B Ice Shelf 2002 when 3,250 square kilometres of ice was lost in just a few days.

(Surface lakes cause Antarctic ice shelves to ‘flex’, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

When we corrected the star's parameters, the sizes of its planets dropped, and we realized the outermost one was about the size of Earth and in the habitable zone, said Emily Gilbert, a graduate student at the University of Chicago.

(NASA Planet Hunter Finds Earth-Size Habitable-Zone World, NASA)

A team from the University of Chicago and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine investigated whether a common but harmless type of virus that people are frequently exposed to, called reoviruses, can prompt sensitivity to dietary proteins.

(Virus linked to food sensitivity, NIH)