Volume 116, Number 4
Summer/24

Features

What is the future of higher education? 

Three UChicago deans share their views about what lies ahead—and what matters most.

Material world

They flex, glow, filter, and shape-shift—for the greater good. Meet the futuristic new materials developed by UChicago scientists that could soon be all around us.

Searching for a story

Before A River Runs Through It made him just plain famous, Norman Maclean, PhD’40, was UChicago famous—and UChicago beloved.

Editor’s notes

The heart of it all

An editor like Mary Ruth Yoe comes around only once in 116 years—and counting. 

Letters

Readers sound off

Your thoughts about the Divinity School, the College’s new dean, singular teachers, and more.

On the agenda

Harris’s new era

The public policy school is expanding and innovating while upholding time-honored UChicago principles.

UChicago Journal

Within reach

A valuable tool to fight the opioid epidemic is being underused, new research finds.

Laughing matters

From aspiring professor to investment banker to stay-at-home parent to comedian, Sindhu Vee, AM’97, has made her own way.

Across the years

An alumna uncovers a family connection in the pages of the Magazine.

In circulation

What UChicago is reading for fun.

Atom smashers

The Accelerator Building comes down this year. These are the machines it was built to house.

Interview: Four years in the life of the mind

As a student, Frank Gruber, AB’74, took hundreds of photos. Now we all can see them.

Quick Study: UChicago research roundup

Ancient stars, green nudges, lysosomal mysteries, and more.

W. R. Harper’s Index: Art all around us

UChicago’s public art, 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

Healing arts

In photographs and poetry, River Coello, MPP’17, reconnects with ancestral tradition.

Alumni essay

Uncharted territory

What teaching middle school taught me about the humanities.

Deaths

University of Chicago obituaries

Recent faculty, staff, and alumni obituaries.

The UChicagoan

Mary Ruth Yoe

Questions for the University of Chicago Magazine’s longest-serving editor.