2003
May 21, 2003- Susan Goldin-Meadow
Students use hand signals to show teachers they are ready to learn: Teachers respond to the subtle gestures without realizing

May 29, 2003- Susan Goldin-Meadow
Susan Goldin-Meadow, the Irving B. Harris Professor in Psychology, Human Development, the College

October 22, 2003- Howard Nusbaum
Sleep boosts ability to learn language, University of Chicago researchers find

December 4, 2003- Dario Maestripieri
Social behavior among monkeys may be more the result of nature than nurture

2002
July 11, 2002
NIH awards Center for Early Childhood Research grant that supports exploration of language development

August 29, 2002- Janellen Huttenlocher
Babies are not as numerically gifted as previously reported, researchers find

September 26, 2002- Susan Levine and Janellen Huttenlocher
Researchers define infants' quantitative abilities, find flaws in earlier research on development

November 21, 2002- Janellen Huttenlocher
Researchers discover environment influences children's ability to form, comprehend complex sentences

2001
April 26, 2001- Larry Hedges
Research shows students who begin school in small classes have an edge

July 12, 2001- Dario Maestripieri
Professor finds that nonhuman primates have evolutionary reason to bond with their offspring

November 30, 2001- Susan Goldin-Meadow
Gesturing aids thinking, memory

2000
January 20, 2000- Amanda Woodward
Study shows when infants begin to infer intentions

February 28, 2000- Susan Goldin-Meadow
Gestures add valuable information to teachers' math lessons

March 16, 2000
$2.28 million grant boosts research on childhood development

November 16, 2000
Huttenlocher to continue spatial learning research with funding from NSF

1999
January 7, 1999- Amanda Woodward
Babies found to have social reasoning skills: University of Chicago research finds first evidence of early ability

November 17, 1999- Janellen Huttenlocher and Susan Levine
University of Chicago research shows that boys outperform girls by age 4 1/2