Features
Delicate dance
Two faculty projects examine the awkward partnership between democracy and capitalism.
Set in stone
The Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures celebrates 100 years of studying inscriptions.
The free air of another land
Jonathan D. S. Schroeder, PhD’16, rediscovered a forgotten 19th-century text—then unearthed its author’s extraordinary life story.
Lawyer jokes
Former attorney Phil Witte, JD’83, quit his job to be a full-time cartoonist. Now he has a book of cartoon criticism.
You must remember this?
Memorability, says Wilma Bainbridge, isn’t only in the eye of the beholder.
Editor’s notes
Meet the interns
Summer 2024 brought a youth infusion to the Magazine.
Letters
Readers sound off
Your thoughts on Norman Maclean, the future of higher education, study spots, and more.
On the agenda
Our moment to seize
An invitation to help author UChicago’s next chapter.
UChicago Journal
Out of her shell
Charmaine Gahan, AB’00, is fulfilling a teenage dream as the owner of Cuttyhunk Shellfish Farms.
Strand by strand
Jared Janas, AB’94, has become a celebrated hair, makeup, and wig designer on Broadway. His UChicago major? Math.
Buried treasure
Seafloor core samples are helping scientists understand the past and future of Earth’s climate.
Fresh ink
A selection of recent books by UChicago faculty members.
CMOS 18 is here
The essential guide gets a big update.
Interview: Got ghosts?
Lauren Riensche, AB’15, offers tours that meld the historical and the supernatural.
Quick Study: UChicago research roundup
Supermassive black holes, optimal oxygenation, and rising health care costs.
W. R. Harper’s Index: Pub trivia
The iconic campus watering hole, by the numbers.
For the Record: UChicago news highlights
A selection of the latest headlines from across campus.
Peer review
Notes
A selection of UChicago alumni whose names are in the news.
Releases
A selection of books, films, and recordings by UChicago alumni.
Snapshots
Photos from the archives and readers like you.
Alumni portfolio
On reflection
Elisabeth Hogeman, MFA’16, puts her spin on the still-life tradition with physical and digital collages.
Deaths
University of Chicago obituaries
Recent faculty, staff, and alumni obituaries.
The UChicagoan
Heidi Heitkamp
Questions for the Institute of Politics director and former US senator (D-ND).
LONG
Isabella in Paris
Les Jeux Olympiques. La mode. Des hommes. During the European Civ in Paris program, Isabella Romeu, Class of 2026, saw it all.
Puzzling behavior
Meet the undergraduate cruciverbalists who design puzzles for the Maroon, Family Weekend—and occasionally the New York Times.
Pipe dreams
Students in the Calumet Quarter program learn about the complicated, jolie laide region just south of Hyde Park.
MEDIUM
“Who are you persuading?”
An excerpt from a speech to the Class of 2024.
Ambassadors of the sea
Veterinarian Maria Chadam, AB’88, is over pocket pets and into sea turtles.
Drawing a blank
Trent Davis, AB’23, of the Brain Bridge Lab stages an art show for science.
Infinity points
The founders of Scav share its origin story.
Of obedience, of silence, of humility
Father Peter Funk, AB’92, on life in a Benedictine monastery.
SHORT
Did you graduate in 1957, 1961, 1964, 1991, 1993, 2017, or 2022?
If so, the University of Chicago Magazine needs YOU.
Five Facts about Philip Venticinque, AB’01, AM’02, PhD’09
Venticinque became dean of students in the College this past February.
What’s new in the College
A digest of College news.
ET CETERA
Three poems by first-years
A selection of work created in Poetry and the Human.
That’s Italian! (sort of)
Try Laura Fermi’s intriguing 1949 recipe for pizza pie. You’ll need biscuit mix.