C Vitae: Freedom-minded
John A. Peoples Jr., AM’51, PhD’61, helped Jackson State endure and thrive after tragedy.
Magnifying vision
As a scientist, Paul Alivisatos, AB’81, studies ultrasmall structures. As UChicago’s 14th president, he sees big opportunities.
In Memoriam: Change agent
Remembering Hugo Sonnenschein, 1940–2021.
Board work
A photographer captures the beauty of mathematicians’ chalk experiments.
Legacy: Undercover man
Sam Greenlee, EX’57 (1930–2014), distinguished himself as a Foreign Service Officer, then found his true mission as a radical writer.
A measure of pleasure
For nearly two decades psychologist Andrea King has followed a group of social drinkers to find out why only some develop alcohol use disorder.
Abiding convictions
Punishment doesn’t end after incarceration, writes Crown Family School associate professor Reuben Jonathan Miller, AM’07. Plus: An excerpt from Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration.
Executive dreaming
In Sleeping Presidents, artist and writer John Ransom Phillips, ABʼ60, PhDʼ66, takes viewers inside the minds of (almost) every one from George Washington to Joe Biden.
Glimpses: A questioning life
Leon Kass, LAB’54, SB’58, MD’62, continues the conversation.
Defining figure
President Robert J. Zimmer transformed the University of Chicago by affirming its core values.
A world apart
The many lives of quarantine.
Alternative history
The Chicago Journal—rival to the Maroon, free South Side weekly, journalism and business talent incubator—had a memorable eight-year run.
Legacy: Note by note
Eileen Southern, AB’40, AM’41 (1920–2002), rewrote the history of American music.
An Aeneid for our time
Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer’s new translation lets today’s reader hear Vergil as the Romans did. Plus: An excerpt from Book I of The Aeneid.
Out of the past
In the 1950s, a pair of young alumni set out on Route 66 and captured a workaday America now vanished.
The parenting trap
For some parents, life is a rat race they want their children to win. For others, it’s a race they’ve already lost. Why macroeconomics plays a role.
Glimpses: Travelogue
W. J. T. Mitchell looks at endings and beginnings.
Course Work: Experimental theater
Scenes from a minicourse at the Harry L. Davis Center for Leadership.
All together now
A historic campaign brought thousands together to invest in UChicago values.
Love thy neighbor
David Nirenberg studies the intertwined—and sometimes violent—histories of faith communities.
Soul primer
An Arts Incubator exhibition uses the Black ABCs to chronicle the lives of South Siders.
Legacy: Singing for the pine trees are stormy winds
Meteorologist Tetsuya Theodore Fujita (1920–1998) led a tempestuous career.
Pilot program
The Chicago school of meteorology found and made waves. Plus: “A Change of Climate.”
Trials by fire
While the mysterious new disease spread, UChicago Medicine researchers brought long-held expertise to a new common cause: helping COVID-19 patients.
Racism, policing, and protest
Five faculty members on a critical moment in US history.
Situational ethics
The business of capitalism during COVID-19.
The new rites of spring
Scenes from a convocation like no other.
Legacy: Precedent setting
Joseph Sax, JD’59 (1936–2014), helped establish the courts as a front line for environmental activism.
Together in spirit
How the University is responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Image of health
Professor and entrepreneur Maryellen Giger, PhD’85, brings computer-aided breast cancer detection and diagnosis from bench to bedside.
Glimpses: Between the lines
Brent Staples, AM’76, PhD’82, goes behind the work that earned him one of journalism’s highest honors.
Course work: Crash course
College students examine ideas and stories of the 2008 Great Recession.
C vitae: A coach’s coach
Soccer player Len Oliver, PhD’70, put his own spin on teaching the sport and training its leaders.
Family reunion
Haroula Rose, AB’02, MAT’02, put the work of Bonnie Jo Campbell, AB’84, on the big screen. Last fall the two brought the film to Chicago.
Poster perfect
Dwight M. Cleveland, MBA’87, collects film posters with an eye for high art.
Jazz as cri de coeur
The Cry of Jazz started a conversation about race and music that continues today.
Strawberry yields
The fruitful career of Herbert Baum, AM’51, PhD’06.
Glimpses: Energy star
As the leader of UChicago’s energy policy and economic research institutes, Michael Greenstone, LAB’87, works to help the world confront the global energy challenge.
Original Source: Inside out
Postage stamps from North Korea afford a rare glimpse into a reclusive country