Evergreen
The University’s botanic garden celebrates its 20th anniversary.
Lexicographer
(Noun, an author or editor of a dictionary)
Hot pursuit
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe gets ready to meet a star.
Book smart
Jeff Deutsch has a plan to save the Seminary Co-op.
Northern light
From his first trip north as the youngest hand on a two-masted schooner, anthropologist Ernest “Tiger” Burch Jr., AM’63, PhD’66, was driven to learn about the Arctic and its peoples.
Lingua franca
What if you took a language class and actually learned to speak?
Free verse
Mitsuye Yamada, AM’53, transformed her family’s internment experience into poetry.
Infinite possibilities
How Ken Ono, AB’89, found life in and outside of math.
Bodies of work
Photographer Lewis Hine, EX 1904, captured the changing face of American labor.
All American
Henry Steele Commager (1902–1998), PhB’23, AM’24, PhD’28, was a US historian for the people.
In harmony
How Lucy Kaplansky, LAB’78, made a career of folk music.
No small talent
In the 1960s the Small School Talent Search sought promising young scholars in rural areas. Fifty years later, one of those students gives his perspective on the program and its legacy.Grass roots
Retired Racehorse Project founder Steuart Pittman Jr., AB’85, advocates for off-track Thoroughbreds.War stories
Photojournalist Jonathan Alpeyrie, AB’03, shoots from the front lines.Out in front
Pioneering pathologist Nancy Warner, SB’44, MD’49, is helping other women scholars follow in her path.
Epic beginnings
Launched in 2007 with an anonymous $100 million gift, the Odyssey Scholarship Challenge has transformed financial aid in the College. Meet six of the young people whose lives were also changed.
Big thinker
Nobelist James Cronin twice expanded our sense of the possible, first in particle physics and then in astronomical observation.
Social creatures
In blues clubs, cocktail bars, and zoos, David Grazian, AM’96, PhD’00, investigates the artifice of authenticity.
Beyond borders
Olufunmilayo Olopade is attacking cancer from all sides.
Age of enlightenment
The Transcendental Meditation movement’s goals were utopian but life for its followers wasn’t always blissful, Claire Hoffman, AM’05, writes in a new memoir. Plus—“The Field of All Possibilities”: An excerpt from Greetings from Utopia Park: Surviving a Transcendent Childhood.
His current quest
John B. Goodenough, SM’50, PhD’52, the father of the lithium-ion battery, sparked the wireless revolution. Now, at 94, he’s working on the next breakthrough.
Peripheral vision
The iconic photographs of Danny Lyon, AB’63, document more than 50 years of social change and life outside the mainstream.
Vote of confidence
A start-up founded by three alumni helps voters think beyond the presidential race.
Safe harbor
Poet and retired Navy physician Frederick Foote, AB’80, is helping wounded veterans recover.
Storied publisher
The Washington Post’s Katharine Graham, AB’38, learned as she went—and made history along the way.
Of morals and markets
Reflections on teaching business ethics at Chicago Booth after the financial crisis.
A singular discovery
Albert Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves a century ago. Daniel Holz was part of the team of scientists that finally found them last fall.
Radical curiosity
Poet and novelist Ana Castillo, AM'79, on feminism, writing, and a momentous education.
The node knows
The Array of Things takes Chicago’s pulse.
Documentary vision
For 50 years, Kartemquin Films has focused its lenses on social forces and the human lives they shape.
Landmark $100 million gift creates The Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts and The Pearson Global Forum
Data-driven research at the global institute will spur new insights into violent conflict and inform public policy.
Start with what you got
At the Arts Incubator, creative minds build on the cultural wealth of Chicago’s South Side.
Mortal thoughts
Doctors are taught to fight death—but it’s a losing battle. Some are looking beyond biomedicine to help them better communicate with patients about the end of life.
Grace notes
Katherine Dunham, AB’36, forged a unique career as a dancer and anthropologist.
Proving ground
The University of Chicago’s Urban Labs turn promising ideas for helping cities into hard evidence of what works.
Déjà views
Historical postcards capture the University as it was and as it wanted to be seen.
Future tense
What will 2040 be like?
Chartered philanthropy
As the historic document turns 800, David M. Rubenstein, JD’73, reflects on preserving a Magna Carta in the United States.
Sweet honey in the rocks
The history of beekeeping stretches back centuries, the director of the Oriental Institute found when a hobby turned into a scholarly pursuit.