Volume 117, Number 3
Spring/25

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Features

The heart of the matter

For 40 years UChicago’s MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics has built a bridge between clinical practice and ethical inquiry.

A teacher’s legacy

Remembering Stuart Rice.

Omnivorous

How literary scholar David Shields, AM’75, PhD’82, came to rediscover dozens of forgotten crops and preserve Southern culinary heritage.

A touch of sublimity makes everything worthwhile

Notes on campus graffiti.

Evolution on trial

The University of Chicago and the defense of John Thomas Scopes, EX’31.

Swing state

Many millennials aren’t sure about having children. A new book examines why.

Editor’s notes

Circle game

Reflections on returning.

Letters

Readers sound off

Your thoughts on Route 20, the importance of ecology, early mornings on campus, and more.

UChicago Journal

Well aware

Adam Peltz, AB’05, is helping combat an environmental scourge.

The other bat man

Eyal Frank, Harris Public Policy assistant professor, quantifies the harms of biodiversity loss.

A cool answer to a lunar question

A new study sheds light on the moon’s age and origin story.

Fresh ink

A selection of recent books by UChicago faculty members.

Interview: Cold case

Journalist Nicola Twilley, AM’01, examines the relationship between food and the built environment.

Quick Study: UChicago research roundup

Greener graphite, rogue transcription factors, and a wound-healing bioelectronic device. 

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.

Deaths

University of Chicago obituaries

Recent trustee, faculty, staff, and alumni obituaries.

The UChicagoan

Nicholas Epley

Questions for the Chicago Booth behavioral science professor and scholar of social cognition.

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From the other side of the desk

Once they were College students. Now they are faculty. What have they learned?

“Ho-ho, the University of Chicago is funnier than you think”

An oral history of College life in the 1970s.

MEDIUM

Is life a game?

An excerpt from the 2024 Aims of Education address.

Costume party

Highlights of the 21st annual UChi-Con, organized by the University of Chicago Japanese Animation Society.

The mind-body problem.

An essay.

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Souvenirs de Paris

This past November the John W. Boyer Center in Paris—named for the College’s longest-serving dean, John W. Boyer, AM’69, PhD’75—had its grand opening. Alumni who studied at the old Center shared these memories of their time in Paris.

Contribute to the UChicago word list

Needed: UChicago in-jokes for Maroon crossword puzzles.

D-list Hyde Park celebrity

Meet Nigel, unofficial canine ambassador for UChicago Alumni

What’s new in the College

A digest of College news.

ET CETERA

A snapshot of 1970

A cookbook with many useful observations and a few spectaculars.

In the gardens, glasshouses, arboretums

A poem.