During the pandemic, fourth-year Elma Ling Hoffman, an art history and religious studies major, adopts a feathered friend. 

Which Chicago neighborhood would you buy (in candle form)? 

In the run-up to the 2020 election, Jenny Holzer, EX’74, and UChicago students collaborate on an art project to get out the vote. 

“You must have patience, and a steady hand.”

At Fermilab, artist in residence Adam Nadel, AB’90, used high-energy electrons to capture portraits of the invisible natural world.

The story of Spring Quarter 2020, as told through University emails. 

A third-year was terrified of catching COVID-19. He went to the Black Lives Matter protests anyway. 

What’s it like to live on campus when everything is closed and almost everyone has left? 

Through text messages and photographs, Vera Soloview, Class of 2023, tracks her pandemic-upended life. 

A first-year, the daughter of an ER doctor and a nurse, tries to stay hopeful during the pandemic—but it’s hard when your parents are scared. 

Musician Eli Winter, AB'20, had planned a concert tour of the United States and Europe after graduation. Then came the pandemic. 

In a pandemic, how can you focus on anything? A first-year documents her upended life through paintings and essays.