Features
Opening inquiry
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.
Microbial me
Scientists are discovering how microbes not only make us sick but also keep our bodies working.
Of joy in the making
At convocation, one journey ended and another began for some 3,300 graduates. How did it feel? Their faces told the story.
Who’s the deviant here?
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.
Editor’s Notes
The quarter system
The Magazine’s return to a seasonal schedule and other news.
Letters
Readers sound off
Readers weigh in on water scarcity; add personal recollections of geologist Clair C. Patterson, PhD’51; reflect on racial and other forms of passing; recall breakfast with a Bush in 1980; compare notes with Philip Glass, AB’56, about the College in the 1950s; and more.
C. Vitae
Mending the heart gender gap
Cardiologist C. Noel Bairey Merz, AB’77, minds—and mends—the gender gap in women’s heart health.
UChicago Journal
Reunited
This June alumni from far and wide made themselves at home again in Hyde Park.
Bringing it home
The South Side of Chicago is selected as the future home of the Obama Presidential Center.
Evolution of thought
William Wimsatt follows ideas where they lead—and takes his students with him.
Neural network
Grossman Institute scholars explore—and begin to explain—the brain’s vast complexities.
Eating habits
A religion professor parses the moral language of modern diets.
Interview: Open review
When geneticist Yoav Gilad and a colleague detected errors in an influential study, Gilad took to Twitter with their finding.
Citations: Faculty research
A selection of recent faculty research news.
For the Record: University news
A selection of the latest headlines from UChicago.
William Rainey Harper’s Index: Career trekking
Students careers, by the numbers.
Fig. 1: Feel the learn
Professor Sian Beilock explains how using the body helps students better learn science.
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.
Alumni essays
An accidental curator
Harvey Choldin, AB’60, AM’63, PhD’65, finds himself plumbing the archives for an exhibition on the Chicago school of sociology.
One pilgrim’s promise
Laura Gruen, AB’67, AM’68, sends dispatches from the pilgrimage route across Spain she walked this spring.
Deaths
University obituaries
Recent faculty, staff, and alumni obituaries.
Lite of the Mind
Famous first words
Match well-known books by UChicago alumni with their opening lines.