The University of Chicago Magazine

Mar–Apr/15

A mixed picture develops from a study of the closure of 47 Chicago elementary schools.

Mar–Apr/15

A UChicago Medicine program shares specialized knowledge to improve health care in the city.

Mar–Apr/15

Happy in his corporate day job, a Chicago Booth graduate pursues Broadway producing on the side.

Mar–Apr/15

Amid winter’s darkness, an art installation multiplied the colors in Rockefeller Chapel.

Mar–Apr/15

Leading cosmologist Wendy Freedman trains a telescopic lens on the biggest questions in the universe.

Mar–Apr/15

You need these stinking badges.

Mar–Apr/15

Zachary Cannon, AM’99, became attuned to the natural world all around him in Chicago’s urban landscape.

Mar–Apr/15

A popular Theater and Performance Studies course directs students on how to stage terror.
Mar–Apr/15

Readers comment on heart-smart eating; 1960s integration in Hyde Park; the tension between national security and civil liberties; quantitative and qualitative data; Mike Nichols, EX’53, at an early stage in his career; how workplace structures influence the gender wage gap; College memories lost and found; the late poet Mark Strand; the indispensable role of doulas in a community program; and more.

Mar–Apr/15

Artifacts and their nostalgic value.

Mar–Apr/15

Chicago Booth economist Matthew Gentzkow sifts insights about the media from massive amounts of digital information.

Mar–Apr/15

For its 40th anniversary, the Smart Museum offers inviting, unexpected avenues to approach art.