Features
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.
Editor’s notes
Fertile soil
From the seeds first planted by William Rainey Harper and James Henry Breasted, the Oriental Institute blossomed into something rare.
Letters
Readers sound off
Readers weigh in on the specialness of Special Collections, medical care models, what ails our democracy, and more.
On the agenda
An expanding universe of discovery
Angela Olinto, dean of the Physical Sciences Division, shares a future vision anchored in the divisionʼs illustrious history.
UChicago Journal
A new history of African American poetry
Lauri Ramey, AM’75, PhD’96, traces a 400-year literary legacy.
A day at the Alumni New Venture Challenge
Maroon entrepreneurs pitched ready-to-drink toddler formula, language instruction apps, rentable microspaces, and more.
It’s the economy, undisputed
Raghuram Rajan, William Howell, and Bret Stephens, AB’95, debated the nuances of contemporary populism.
Seven marathons, seven continents, seven days
Greg Nance, AB’11, tested his limits in the 2019 World Marathon Challenge.
The sloth family tree looks different than we thought
New fossil analyses upend the old story about sloth evolution.
Trans history on film
An early story of transition comes to the screen in the documentary Framing Agnes.
Interview: Are you afraid of the semicolon?
Cecelia Watson, AMʼ05, examines the history—and occasional hatred—of punctuation’s most daunting mark.
Quick Study: UChicago research roundup
New findings on workplace wellness programs, mosquito-borne disease, Martian rivers, and global tariffs.
W. R. Harper’s Index: Public good
The Law School’s Pro Bono Service Initiative, 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
The Magazine lists a selection of general interest books, films, and albums by alumni. For additional alumni releases, browse the Magazine’s Goodreads bookshelf.
Alumni essay
The right way to run a college athletics program
For sports editor Lester Munson, JDʼ67, UChicago strikes the right balance of academic and athletics excellence.
Deaths
University of Chicago obituaries
Recent faculty, staff, and alumni obituaries.
The UChicagoan
Eve L. Ewing, AB’08
Questions for the author, College alumna, and SSA assistant professor.
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Ask an ambassador
Got questions? Study Abroad’s new student ambassadors have answers. Plus: “Study Abroad in Pictures and Numbers.”
The homemade breeder reactor
An excerpt from We Made Uranium! And Other True Stories from the University of Chicago’s Extraordinary Scavenger Hunt. Plus: “Physicist with a Wrench.”
What’s in a game?
In 1975 Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, AB’60, PhD’65, came up with the notion of autotelic experience—better known as flow. Forty-five years later, we’re still talking about it.
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Goodnight tune
The bells of Mitchell Tower have inspired, or irritated, Hyde Parkers for more than a century. Plus: “Hate Mail for the Change Ringers.”
Model students
UChicago fashion as youʼve never seen it before. Plus: “Justify Your Fashion.”
A hut of one’s own
Dieter Roelstraete on philosophers and their man caves.
“If you can’t outswim them, outlive them”
A Hutchins-era graduate exercises her way into the record books.
May the course be with you
In Star Wars and Religion, Russell Johnson, AM’15, PhD’19, uses the famous franchise to teach comparative religious ethics.
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There’s a plane in my hair
Sciencepalooza brings science and engineering to the quads.
You say you want an evolution
What’s new in the College: Galapagos research, Quantrell Awards, Careers in the Humanities Day
Play to the crowd
A welcome party for the new Weston Game Lab in Crerar Library.
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Read, drink, repeat
Amira Makansi, AB’10, has pairing recommendations for more than 150 books. Plus: “Butterbeer for Muggles” and “How to Get Paid to Sip Wine.”
Why study endangered languages?
A linguist explains.
Honey, I’m home
The bees are back in town.
College New Venture Challenge winners
Top 6 winners of the Collegeʼs version of Shark Tank.