Features
Trials by fire
While the mysterious new disease spread, UChicago Medicine researchers brought long-held expertise to a new common cause: helping COVID-19 patients.
Racism, policing, and protest
Five faculty members on a critical moment in US history.
Situational ethics
The business of capitalism during COVID-19.
The new rites of spring
Scenes from a convocation like no other.
Legacy: Precedent setting
Joseph Sax, JD’59 (1936–2014), helped establish the courts as a front line for environmental activism.
Editor’s notes
Open to change
A look behind this issue’s feature “Racism, Policing, and Protest.”
Letters
Readers sound off
This issue’s reader dispatches address public spaces College access, South Side music, “Ribs ’n’ Bibs, Ribs ’n’ Bibs,” football traditions, and more.
On the agenda
A provost’s path
Before becoming the chief academic officer this year, chemist Ka Yee C. Lee served in many faculty and leadership positions.
UChicago Journal
Steps forward
As Autumn Quarter approaches during the COVID-19 pandemic, the University is making flexible plans for multiple scenarios.
Talk is deep
Psychology professor Katherine Kinzler examines how we react to each other’s speech.
Youth at risk, revisted
The first School of Social Service Administration dissertation presaged a century of scholarship on social work.
Splashdown
Chicago teens search the bottom of Lake Michigan for a meteorite.
A read of their own
My Very Own Library gets kids excited about books.
Interview: You can fix it
Advice for cooking and life from chef Madelaine Bullwinkel, AM’68
Butterfly effect
The mysteries of coloration, revealed.
Quick Study: UChicago research roundup
New findings on how COVID-19 is affecting small businesses, unemployment, and low-income Americans.
W. R. Harper’s Index: Virtual Scav
A by-the-numbers look at an unprecedented year of the Hunt.
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.
Deaths
University of Chicago obituaries
Recent faculty, staff, and alumni obituaries.
The UChicagoan
Stephanie Soileau, AB’98
Questions for the creative writing faculty member, College alumna, and author of Last One Out Shut Off the Lights.
LONG
A Spring Quarter like no other
Living with your parents—or completely alone. Taking classes on Zoom. Trying to make sense of it all. Eight College students tell us what Spring Quarter 2020 was like.
How a photographer turned electron beams into abstract art
At Fermilab, artist in residence Adam Nadel, AB’90, used high-energy electrons to capture portraits of the invisible natural world.
MEDIUM
Catchy hooks, wild looks, and sneaky politics
It must be the Eurovision Song Contest.
How an author wrote the books she wanted to read as a teen
Growing up, author Samira Ahmed, AB’93, MAT’93, never read a book with a Muslim protagonist. Now she’s written three.
Could emergence be the next big thing?
Abraham Herzog-Arbeitman, SB’19, SM’19, makes a $26,000 suggestion: Let’s find out.
Take a bike tour of Hyde Park (bike optional)
The City in a Garden looks at the “place-ness” of Hyde Park history.
SHORT
At convocation, Voices offers up an a cappella “Remedy” for troubled times
We’re not crying at this Son Lux cover, you’re crying. (OK, we’re all crying.)
So you’ve baked your own bread. Now what?
This blueberry jam with mint, created by chef Madelaine Bullwinkel, AM’68, keeps summer in a jar.
Happy birthday, Bison
So small, you might mistake it for a boson.
ET CETERA
Directions for building a house of cards
“You must have patience, and a steady hand.”