Features

Out of the shadows

According to Hollywood legend, Eliot Ness, PhB’25, brought down Al Capone. The reality is more complicated.

Criminal mastermind

Sara Paretsky, AM’69, MBA’77, PhD’77, on being the mystery genre’s “aging diva” and more.

Where the art is

After a decades-long hiatus, Art to Live With is back.

Looking back

As we grow older, how beneficial is it to reflect on our youthful actions and experiences? Two UChicago professors weigh the virtues of living fully in the present and reliving the past.

C. Vitae

Urban legend

Herbert Gans’s (PhB’47, AM’50) sociology is for and of the people.

Editor’s notes

Cold comforts

Winter on ice, past and present.

Letters

Readers sound off

Readers react to the Chicago Pile-1 experiment and its far-reaching legacy; debate deterrence and gerrymandering; correct the fossil record; and more.

On the agenda

Bringing evidence to bear on public policy

Katherine Baicker dean and Emmett Dedmon Professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, reflects on the importance of evidence-based policy.

UChicago Journal

Good behavior

On a hectic and life-changing morning, Nobel laureate Richard Thaler took a moment to soak it all in.

In the know

The Stevanovich Institute questions what we know and how we know it.

String theory: A physician’s second act as a violin maker

Physician William Sloan’s (SB’63, MD’67) familiarity with old Italian instruments guides his work as a luthier.

Goal oriented: The men’s and women’s varsity soccer teams are in it together

After their record-breaking seasons came to bittersweet ends, both teams are already thinking ahead to next year.

Bite by bite: For adolescents with eating disorders, recovery may involve the whole family

The University of Chicago Eating Disorders Program heals patients with the help of their parents.

Textbook teacher

Husain Sattar, AB’93, MD’01, is an unlikely celebrity in medical education.

Spiritual leader: Ingenious community organizing earned Rami Nashashibi a MacArthur Fellowship

Through the Inner-City Muslim Action Network, Nashashibi, AM’98, PhD’11, works to spread hope and opportunity in Chicago.

Next generation: Up in smoke

UChicago graduate students use bird specimens to look back at pollution levels in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Fig. 1: Young and homeless in America

A Chapin Hall study finds higher rates of youth homelessness than previously reported.

William Rainey Harper’s Index: Folk lore

Fifty-eight years of the Folk Festival by the numbers.

Citations: Faculty research

Charter schools, small payments, molecular chains, and fracking dangers.

For the Record: University news

A selection of the latest headlines from UChicago.

Peer review

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.

Notes

Highlights from the latest alumni news columns.

Alumni essay

A chaplain’s compassion

Bailey Pickens, AB’10, learns to cultivate compassion as a young hospital chaplain by recognizing both the sin and the sinner.

Deaths

University obituaries

Recent faculty, staff, and alumni obituaries.

Lite of the mind

Entrance exam

Challenge yourself with the toughest UChicago entrance exam.