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Adoctoral student’s dissertation usually marks a new beginning the last step in a long academic journey and the start of a promising career. But as Chicago Booth professor Zhiguo He read through the work left behind by his former student, the late Yiran Fan, SM’15,he felt a profound sense of loss.
Yiran Fan
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Fan was shot and killed on Jan. 9, devastating the University of Chicago community. Originally from China, the 30-year-old student was in the fourth year of the Joint Program in Financial Economics. Fan had not yet proposed a dissertation topic at the time of his death, but when his professors and classmates examined his work, they began exploring the possibility of completing Fan’s Ph.D. in his honor.
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Prof. Deborah Nelson has been named the speaker for the University of Chicago’s Convocation ceremony on June 9.
The Helen B. and Frank L. Sulzberger Professor of English and the College, Nelson specializes in the study of late 20th-century U.S. culture and politics. Her research interests include American literature and plays, gender and sexuality studies, photography, and Cold War history.
“I’m honored to address this year’s graduates, who have shown such remarkable perseverance and creativity during these extraordinary times,” said Nelson, a UChicago faculty member since 1996.
A former director of UChicago’s Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, Nelson’s recent scholarship has focused on the intersecting paths of female writers, critics and artists. Her latest book,
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