Features
Proving ground
The University of Chicago’s Urban Labs turn promising ideas for helping cities into hard evidence of what works.
Déjà views
Historical postcards capture the University as it was and as it wanted to be seen.
Future tense
What will 2040 be like?
Chartered philanthropy
As the historic document turns 800, David M. Rubenstein, JD’73, reflects on preserving a Magna Carta in the United States.
Sweet honey in the rocks
The history of beekeeping stretches back centuries, the director of the Oriental Institute found when a hobby turned into a scholarly pursuit.
Editor’s Notes
Back to the future
Prospect and retrospect.
Letters
Readers sound off
Readers discuss the University’s policy on freedom of expression; add personal recollections of chemist Harold Urey; celebrate professor Robert Morrissey, PhD’82, and the University’s Center in Paris; respond to other readers’ letters; and more.
Course work
Gaming the vote
In political scientist Monika Nalepa’s game theory course, students learn how voters play around with political participation.
UChicago Journal
Avant garde
For a century, the Renaissance Society has focused on artists and the ideas that inspire them.
Past and present
College dean John W. Boyer turns a historian’s eye to the University.
Critical care
Sinai Health System and the University of Chicago Medicine partner to provide trauma care services at Holy Cross Hospital.
Share and protect
Craig Futterman and his students work to make police departments more transparent, starting in Chicago.
Artifice
Graduate students offer hands-on science and technology education to local youth.
News you can use
Alisa Miller, MPP’99, MBA’99, thinks public media can change Americans’ worldviews.
Interview: Continuing education
Questions for doctor, businessman, and quadruple degree holder Robert Behar.
Citations: Faculty research
A selection of recent faculty research news.
For the Record: University news
A selection of the latest headlines from UChicago.
Original Source: New moon
Although Leonardo da Vinci famously made realistic sketches of the moon’s surface spots in the early 16th century, the first published images of the moon as seen through a telescope were Galileo Galilei’s.
William Rainey Harper’s Index: Touchdown
Maroon football, by the numbers.
Fig. 1: Brain power
As a researcher, Caroline Albertin, SM’12, a PhD student in organismal biology and anatomy, has always been partial to weird animals: mussels, centipedes, cave fish—and cephalopods.
Peer review
Releases
The Magazine lists a selection of general interest books, films, and albums by alumni. For additional alumni releases, browse the Magazine’s Goodreads bookshelf.
Notes
Highlights from the latest alumni news columns.
Deaths
University obituaries
Recent faculty, staff, and alumni obituaries.
Lite of the Mind
Power tweeters
Four professors, an alumnus, and an intern on how and why they tweet.