Features
Preserve and connect
With an eye on digital and traditional resources alike, Torsten Reimer is leading the UChicago Library into a complex future.
Drawing on research
Chemist Bozhi Tian’s art and science recast reality.
A little bird told me
How a Twitter conversation led to a new trilingual children’s book.
The right cuts
Academy Award–winning editor Lisa Fruchtman’s (AB’70) life in film.
Rooted in Justice
The “grandfather of restorative justice” looks back on a career spent advocating for change.
Notes on a crime
Dental expert turned forensic scientist Wilmer Souder, PhD 1916 (1884–1974), testified against mobsters, fraudsters, and murderers.
Greetings, Maroons!
Ringing in the New Year in rhyme.
Editor’s notes
Shelf life
On the joys of libraries and library people.
Letters
Readers sound off
Alumni write in about furry friends; latke-hamantash memories; Carl Sagan, AB’54, SB’55, SM’56, PhD’60; and more.
On the agenda
The engaged University
Paul Alivisatos, AB’81, is leading the University to meet an exciting inflection point with its considerable strengths.
UChicago Journal
The power of one
A Smart Museum exhibition probes the past and future of monochrome art.
Sea legs
Meet Neil Shubin’s newest fossil: a fishapod that returned to water while its cousins took to land.
Miss Chloe remembered
A. J. Verdelle, AB’82, writes lovingly, but honestly, of her friend Toni Morrison.
Leading the charge
Chibueze Amanchukwu seeks a chemical key to sustainability.
Interview: Scholar of scares
Adam Lowenstein, AM’94, PhD’99, reconsiders the role of “the other” in horror.
Pitching in
Meet Cubs pitcher and College second-year Wilson Cunningham.
Fresh ink
A selection of recent books by UChicago faculty members.
Quick Study: UChicago research roundup
Culturally shared false memories, a smart and stretchy computing chip, and a smell test for dementia.
W. R. Harper’s Index: Glory of womanly sports
UChicago women's athletics, by the numbers.
For the Record: UChicago news highlights
A selection of the latest headlines from across campus.
Alumni Essay
Return service
A coach’s lessons went well beyond tennis.
Peer review
Notes
A selection of UChicago alumni whose names are in the news.
Releases
A selection of books, films, and recordings by UChicago alumni.
Snapshots
Photos from the archives and readers like you.
Deaths
University of Chicago obituaries
Recent faculty, staff, and alumni obituaries.
The UChicagoan
Neil Shubin
Questions for the paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and host of PBS’s Your Inner Fish.