Features
Market values
In the age of technology giants, does capitalism need protection from big business? Luigi Zingales thinks so.
Rediscovering Bette Howland
A chance encounter in a bookstore brought a Chicago writer back into the spotlight. Plus: “Power Failure,” a short story by Bette Howland.
A soldier’s final mission
The heroism of World War I pilot Harold Goettler, AS 1914, SB 1914.
Remembering Justice John Paul Stevens
Fellow justices, former clerks, journalists, and court watchers reflect on a singular Supreme Court career.
Glimpses: Parks and restoration
How a lawyer-turned-scientist-turned-entrepreneur helped establish Afghanistan’s first national park.
Legacy: The man who developed 40 vaccines
Microbiologist Maurice Hilleman, PhD’44, and his feathered friends.
Editor’s notes
Chasing ghosts
Remembering extraordinary UChicagoans.
Letters
Readers sound off
Readers weigh in on 100 years of the Oriental Institute, the life of David Bevington, the merits of college athletics, and more.
UChicago Journal
To Russia, with love
How Soviet citizens made Western culture their own.
At Tree House Humane Society, Raissa Allaire is top cat
Connecting human and feline communities in Chicago. Plus: “Make a Date for Coffee … with a Cat.”
Social work meets social media
How Desmond Patton, PhD’12, is harnessing technology to help young people.
A little latitude
Why does biodiversity wax near the equator and wane approaching Earth’s poles?
Survey says
What the General Social Survey tell us about America.
Where in the world is Phil the Phoenix?
On the road with College Admissions and UChicago’s mascot.
Interview: Are sports an American religion?
Divinity School Alumnus of the Year Joseph Price, AM’79, PhD’82, turns an academic double play.
Quick Study: UChicago research roundup
New findings on pollution's dangers, internet speeds, the power of light, and the great outdoors.
W. R. Harper’s Index: Stockholm stats
UChicago՚s Nobels and Nobelists, by the numbers.
For the Record: UChicago news highlights
A selection of the latest headlines from across campus.
Peer review
Notes
A selection of UChicago alumni whose names are in the news.
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.
Deaths
University of Chicago obituaries
Recent faculty, staff, and alumni obituaries.
The UChicagoan
Ana Marie Cox, AB’94
Questions for the political commentator, podcaster, and 2014 Institute of Politics fellow.
Plus, in Inquiry …
Organic growth
A note from the dean of the Physical Sciences Division.
Small bugs in large ponds
Maureen Coleman’s lab samples the teeming microbiome of the Great Lakes.
Living matter
How Margaret Gardel accidentally became a biophysicist.
Light hearted
Instrumental
Computer scientist Pedro Lopes integrates technology with anatomy to reimagine the role of “human” in human-computer interaction.