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
Market values
In the age of technology giants, does capitalism need protection from big business? Luigi Zingales thinks so.
Rediscovering Bette Howland
A chance encounter in a bookstore brought a Chicago writer back into the spotlight. Plus: “Power Failure,” a short story by Bette Howland.
A soldier’s final mission
The heroism of World War I pilot Harold Goettler, AS 1914, SB 1914.
Remembering Justice John Paul Stevens
Fellow justices, former clerks, journalists, and court watchers reflect on a singular Supreme Court career.
Glimpses: Parks and restoration
How a lawyer-turned-scientist-turned-entrepreneur helped establish Afghanistan’s first national park.
Legacy: The man who developed 40 vaccines
Microbiologist Maurice Hilleman, PhD’44, and his feathered friends.
The OI at 100
UChicagoʼs Oriental Institute celebrates a monumental first century.
Rosanna Warren’s odes to woundedness
A poet reckons with a fractured world. Plus: “Two Poems by Rosanna Warren.”
Toward a safer world
The first annual Hagel Lecture at UChicago brought together Madeleine Albright and Chuck Hagel to speak to students and the public.
C. Vitae: Local Interest
Barbara Flynn Currie, LAB’58, AB’68, AM’73, helped pave the way for other female politicians in the Prairie State.
Course Work: Hermit philosophy
Dieter Roelstraete’s course explored exile, retreat, and homes away from home. Plus: “Head Space.”
Legacy: American style
House Beautiful editor in chief Elizabeth Gordon, PhB’27, fought for “good” design in the Cold War era.
The value of primary care
A physician-economist tests the health and cost benefits of a closer doctor-patient relationship.
How David Auburn, AB’91, brought Augie March to the stage
Scenes from a Court Theatre play in the making.
The secrets of UChicago’s Special Collections
Among the rare books and manuscripts in Regenstein lurk other amazing artifacts.
Can democracy survive?
UChicago law professors Tom Ginsburg and Aziz Z. Huq explore populism and other threats to our political system.
A box of old letters inspires a jazz opera
Erich Rosenthal, AM’42, PhD’48, escaped Nazi Germany to attend UChicago. His parents remained and perished. Decades later, his son Ted Rosenthal has memorialized their tragic family history in music.
Picking up where the Little Rock Nine left off
At 16 Sybil Jordan Hampton, MSTʼ68, was on the front lines of school desegregation. Since then sheʼs worked to ensure no American is overlooked.
Free speech law at 100
Two constitutional scholars weigh 21st-century challenges to the letter and spirit of the First Amendment.
101 citations
A new book looks at the history of Chicago through the lens of print.
The view from the tree house of knowledge
With the opening of a campus in Hong Kong, the University begins a new era of intellectual partnership. Plus: “Tree House/Art House”
Legal light
Soia Mentschikoff (1915–1984) reformed how the United States does business and led the way for later generations of women in law.
Goal digger
Want to exercise more, save money, and eat healthier? Ayelet Fishbach’s research can help.
When what you do is no longer who you are
Retirement doesn’t always live up to the blissful media image.
A change will come
At 100, civil rights leader Timuel D. Black Jr., AM’54, has seen change—and made it happen.
Plans of attack
Why doesn’t the immune system fight cancer more often? Can we teach it how?
Supercharged
In CAR T-cell therapy, the immune system gets a boost that can be lifesaving.
Art and artifice
Matinee idol and Oscar nominee Sessue Hayakawa is widely remembered as a UChicago alumnus. But was he?
Historian with a camera
Advised to “shoot what you love,” Henry Horenstein, EX’69, took pictures of country music stars and their fans.
Smear tactic
The human impulse to censor plays out on the pages of a medieval Latin grammar manuscript.
The ace
Kim Ng, AB’90, has found her sweet spot as MLB’s senior vice president for baseball operations.
The new romantics
Director Claire Scanlon, AB’93, has worked on shows including GLOW and Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Now she’s reinventing the romantic comedy.
Corrective measures
A UChicago professor spearheads an initiative to end mass incarceration.
Talking back
Reflections on the life and literature of Philip Roth, AM’55.
Bibliomania!
College students go head-to-head in a competition for the best undergraduate book collection.
Towering insights
English associate professor Adrienne Brown explores the complicated racial history of the American skyscraper.
Food for thought
Former White House chef Sam Kass, LAB’98, AB’04, is serving up new recipes and improvements to food policy. Plus: Kass’s recipe for brussels sprouts Caesar salad.