The University of Chicago Magazine
Sociologist William Julius Wilson sets forth to help the truly disadvantaged.
The humorist and literary critic reminiscences about his College days and writing his first book, Maroon Tales.
Of sturdy stuff are poets made, or else they’d never make the grade.
From our print archive: Gamesmanship and America’s first Nobel Prize scientist, Albert Abraham Michelson.
Scientist Michael LaBarbera searches for tiny sea creatures—brachiopods—in underwater caves, to help flesh out the evolutionary record.
Mathematics historian Judith Victor Grabiner, SB’60, teaches math to the liberal arts masses.
John Snyder traversed Ethiopia seeking inspiration for a screenplay. Instead he captured a landscape about to disappear.
Author Adam Minter, AB’93, weighs in on the wide world of waste.
Entrepreneurs meeting the demand for raw materials, not environmental virtue, drives the expansion of the recycling industry.
