Katherine Dunham
Katherine Dunham, AB’36, forged a unique career as a dancer and anthropologist.
The Pearson Institute
Data-driven research at the global institute will spur new insights into violent conflict and inform public policy.
Arts Incubator
At the Arts Incubator, creative minds build on the cultural wealth of Chicago’s South Side.
Mortal thoughts
Doctors are taught to fight death—but it’s a losing battle. Some are looking beyond biomedicine to help them better communicate with patients about the end of life.
Income inequality
Scholars discuss the causes of growing economic inequality in the United States and what to do about it.
Urban Labs
The University of Chicago’s Urban Labs turn promising ideas for helping cities into hard evidence of what works.
Postcards from the past
Historical postcards capture the University as it was and as it wanted to be seen.
Forecasting 2040
What will 2040 be like?
Magna Carta
As the historic document turns 800, David M. Rubenstein, JD’73, reflects on preserving a Magna Carta in the United States.
Bees in the Old World
The history of beekeeping stretches back centuries, the director of the Oriental Institute found when a hobby turned into a scholarly pursuit.
Convocation
At convocation, one journey ended and another began for some 3,300 graduates. How did it feel? Their faces told the story.
Free expression
As free expression comes under challenge on some campuses, the University’s affirmation of a long-standing value may become a model for higher education.
Microbiome
Scientists are discovering how microbes not only make us sick but also keep our bodies working.
Howie Becker
Sociologist Howard S. Becker, PhB’46, AM’49, PhD’51, talks about his career studying deviance.
Criminal injustice
Jonathan Rapping, AB’88, inspires attorneys who represent indigent clients to fight a system stacked against them.
Water research
Water is life, but ever scarcer. The most promising approaches to a mounting global problem may be molecular.
Racial passing
A secret in her own family led Allyson Hobbs, AM’02, PhD’09, to uncover the hidden history of racial passing. Plus—Lost kin: An excerpt from A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life.
Clair C. Patterson
The impact of geochemist Clair C. Patterson, PhD’51, who determined the age of the earth and fought lead pollution.
Anna Chlumsky
It’s hard to say which was more liberating for Anna Chlumsky, AB’02: the moment she left acting, or the moment she came back.
Selma anniversary
A Divinity School event commemorates the 50th anniversary of Selma and explores the state of civil rights today.
Antiques
On Antiques Roadshow, appraiser Gary Piattoni, AB’83, teases out the stories that things want to tell.
Public architecture
Michael Murphy’s MASS Design Group strives to make an architecture of community cohesion.
Philip Glass
Notes on an intellectual and musical journey.
Wendy Freedman
Leading cosmologist Wendy Freedman trains a telescopic lens on the biggest questions in the universe.
Smart art
For its 40th anniversary, the Smart Museum offers inviting, unexpected avenues to approach art.
Media data
Chicago Booth economist Matthew Gentzkow sifts insights about the media from massive amounts of digital information.
Reviewing the NSA
A law professor offers an inside look at his experience on a presidential panel reviewing how the government protects national security and preserves civil liberties.
Campaign momentum
With a string of headline gifts since its public launch, the UChicago Campaign is gathering momentum.
Bernie Sanders
At the University in the 1960s, Bernie Sanders, AB’64, set out on a path that led to the Senate, and an unlikely place at the center.
Start-up sage
Chicago Booth clinical professor of entrepreneurship Waverly Deutsch brings theatrical and gaming influences to her teaching.
Heart Rx
The president of the American College of Cardiology advocates a plant-based diet as part of shifting heart disease treatment from “event” to “prevent” focused.
Spine tingling
Finally, a dinosaur that swam.
Mapping the South Side
High school students fan out to help the University’s Urban Health Initiative chart the resources in Chicago neighborhoods where there are too few.
Debut novelist
Novelist Matthew Thomas, AB’97, talks about learning to hear the story that wants to be told.
World War I illustration
French illustrators of World War I depicted the arena, the enemy, and the home front with bravura.
Claudia Goldin
Economic historian Claudia Goldin, AM’69, PhD’72, takes a detective’s joy in gathering clues, analyzing data, and reconstructing the stories behind social issues.
The Marine Biological Lab
Joining forces with the Marine Biological Laboratory, the University formalizes its long-standing links to a venerable scientific destination.
Maud Slye
Researcher Maud Slye’s (EX 1899) contentious career helped open the field of cancer genetics.
Up in the air
From balloon sculptures to an avant-garde video game, the art of Willy Chyr, AB’09, is all about the journey.
Aims of Education
Wayne Scott, AB’86, AM’89, remembers—and misremembers—his Aims of Education address.
Minds online
Neurobiologist Peggy Mason gives almost 55,000 students an online introduction to the brain.