Medical ethics
For 40 years UChicago’s MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics has built a bridge between clinical practice and ethical inquiry.
A teacher’s legacy
Remembering Stuart Rice.
Heritage crops
How literary scholar David Shields, AM’75, PhD’82, came to rediscover dozens of forgotten crops and preserve Southern culinary heritage.
Graffiti
Notes on campus graffiti.
Monkey Trial
The University of Chicago and the defense of John Thomas Scopes, EX’31.
What are children for?
Many millennials aren’t sure about having children. A new book examines why.
Climate and growth
A new institute confronts climate change and economic growth as closely linked challenges.
A judge’s tale
Retired federal judge David S. Tatel, JD’66, reflects on how blindness shaped his life and career.
Women in printing
An exhibition at the Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center highlights women’s contributions to the craft of printing.
Dean Nadya Mason
Dean Nadya Mason is helping the UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering reach new heights.
Route 20
From the Atlantic to the Pacific, an alumna takes the measure of Route 20 and points along the way.
Democracy and capitalism
Two faculty projects examine the awkward partnership between democracy and capitalism.
Epigraphic Survey
The Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures celebrates 100 years of studying inscriptions.
Emancipation narrative
Jonathan D. S. Schroeder, PhD’16, rediscovered a forgotten 19th-century text—then unearthed its author’s extraordinary life story.
Cartoons
Former attorney Phil Witte, JD’83, quit his job to be a full-time cartoonist. Now he has a book of cartoon criticism.
Memorability
Memorability, says Wilma Bainbridge, isn’t only in the eye of the beholder.
What is the future of higher education?
Three UChicago deans share their views about what lies ahead—and what matters most.
Material world
They flex, glow, filter, and shape-shift—for the greater good. Meet the futuristic new materials developed by UChicago scientists that could soon be all around us.
Searching for a story
Before A River Runs Through It made him just plain famous, Norman Maclean, PhD’40, was UChicago famous—and UChicago beloved.
Committed to the core
The College’s new dean, Melina Hale, PhD’98, brings leadership experience and unlimited intellectual curiosity to a crucial role.
Color unearthed
An ISAC researcher and conservator illuminate the role of color in the ancient world.
Light bearer
John J. MacAloon, AM’74, PhD’80, cofounded Olympic studies, revitalized an 80-year-old master’s program, and taught hundreds of students in the Soc Core.
Sacred scholarship
Two new courses illustrate how the Divinity School is broadening its scope to include more world religions.
Something new
Sixty years of making and sharing contemporary music at UChicago and beyond.
Musical voyagers
When Sun Ra asked NASA to send his music to space.
Earthbound
In Henry Hinds Laboratory and now the Regenstein Library, Ruth Duckworth’s murals make an art of geophysical science.
An unseen life
The untold story of Cora Belle Jackson, AB 1896, the first Black graduate of the University of Chicago.
Strategic center
As construction begins on a next-generation headquarters, Kunle Odunsi and UChicago’s cancer specialists are ushering in a new era of research and care.
Booth values
As the top-ranked US business school turns 125, Dean Madhav Rajan reflects on its tradition of innovation.
Out of the woods
Scholars at Risk offers threatened academics a place to rebuild their lives and continue their work.
Machine learning
High school students in the Collegiate Scholars Program get to know robots.
Asking to be seen
As Patric McCoy, AB’69, cycled to work, men called out to him to take their picture. So he did.
Ring in the changes
After more than a century, Mitchell Tower gets a new set of bells.
Greetings, Maroons!
Ringing in the New Year in rhyme.
Robert J. Zimmer (1947–2023)
The 13th president exemplified leadership and forged a stronger University of Chicago.
Well versed
Chicu Reddy’s life in poetry.
Time after time
In May Alumni Weekend–goers enjoyed lasting traditions and a few new twists.
Jimmy's Woodlawn Tap: An oral history
Patrons, staff, and friends of the fabled neighborhood bar tell its story.