A writer, lost and found
Nearly a century after it was banned, Gertrude Beasley’s (AM 1918) memoir of her Texas upbringing reaches a new generation of readers.
Family doctor
Trained as a cochlear implant surgeon, Dana Suskind has taken on a new role as an advocate for American parents.
Recipe for success
Mealtime conversation with the Korean Vegan.
Off the shelf
Selling books is unlike selling anything else. The Seminary Co-op director counts the ways.
Opening words
Scenes and voices from the inauguration of President Paul Alivisatos, AB’81.
One hundred years of global aid
A course tackles the history of efforts to do good abroad.
Comic relief
With Work in Progress, Abby McEnany, AB’92, created an unconventional sitcom for anyone who feels different.
Optimal quitting
An economist’s advice on when to fold your hand in favor of the next opportunity.
Interior monologue
Decorator and pulp writer Richard Himmel, EX’42 (1920–2000), had a private eye for design.
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.