Features
Robert J. Zimmer (1947–2023)
The 13th president exemplified leadership and forged a stronger University of Chicago.
Well versed
Chicu Reddy’s life in poetry.
Time after time
In May Alumni Weekend–goers enjoyed lasting traditions and a few new twists.
Jimmy’s Woodlawn Tap: An oral history
Patrons, staff, and friends of the fabled neighborhood bar tell its story.
Editor’s notes
A poet walks into a bar
On verse and voices that stick.
Letters
Readers sound off
Your dispatches on sensory memories of UChicago, Folk Fest, Irving Spergel, and more.
UChicago Journal
By the ton
The Climate Vault banks on cap-and-trade markets to curtail carbon emissions.
Cross training
UChicago’s provost is proud to be a published author—of several crossword puzzles.
Lines of communication
Harris Public Policy hosted a day of conversations about the human side of serving our country.
Three-minute eggheads
Doctoral students sum up years of work in 180 seconds.
So you think you can comp?
From 1931 to the early 1960s, students in the College had to make the grade.
Science makes art
PhD students’ prizewinning pictures.
Interview: Good sport
Angie Torain helps undergrads balance academics and athletics.
Quick Study: UChicago research roundup
Earth’s mantle, sleep apnea, smart buildings, and more.
W. R. Harper’s Index: Pressing issues
The University of Chicago Press 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 Essays
Monochromatic blues
Why there’s nothing neutral about gray.
Tricks of the trade
A film professor reappraises his childhood approach to performing magic.
Deaths
University of Chicago obituaries
Recent faculty, staff, and alumni obituaries.
The UChicagoan
Patrick Jagoda
Questions for the English professor, digital media theorist, and game designer.
LONG
Are we doomed?
UChicago scholars contemplate the end of the world.
What then?
Maybe the end of the world isn’t the end of the world.
Making an example
An ambitious public art project. Five overstretched interns. What could go wrong?
MEDIUM
Space age whiz kid
Meet Joalda Morancy, AB’22, children’s author and aerospace engineer.
“The joy of argument”
An excerpt from a speech to the Class of 2023.
The good life and the gridiron
Maroons of Character teaches football players how to live virtuously.
Spilled coffee ... fundamental truths
Sidney Nagel receives the “lifetime achievement Oscar of physics.”
“Oh, it was a lovely place”
Marjorie Sullivan Lee, AB’43, lived in Foster Hall, roller skated in Ida Noyes, and watched Robert Maynard Hutchins go to work.
SHORT
Scientific thinking
What’s new in the College
A soupçon of College news.
ET CETERA
Experimental literature
An advanced poetry course explores the science of poetry and the poetry of science.
Recipe: Clean water
How to kill pathogenic bacteria, viruses, and protozoa in four easy steps.