The Core

Summer/21

The Gather Town version of UChicago re-creates campus in 2D, 8-bit glory.

Summer/21

At the Undergraduate Research Symposium, students presented work on smallpox inoculation, social and emotional learning, and more.

Summer/21

Questions for Leila Brammer, inaugural director of the College’s Parrhesia Program for Public Discourse.

Summer/21

A “lost” documentary on Britney Spears, made by faculty member Judy Hoffman two decades ago, resurfaces.

Summer/21

Josh Tyra, AB’01—a language nerd in the mold of J. R. R. Tolkien—helped create a new Breton translation of The Hobbit.

Summer/21

How a free-roaming cat became Instagram famous. 

Summer/21

Online recruiting, quantum engineering, a campus philanthropy tour led by Dean Boyer, and more. 

Summer/21

During the COVID-19 pandemic, intramural sports—like everything else—went online.

Winter/21

Last quarter everything was different—even the University's geography. 

Winter/21

Lyrics from one of the tunes on Songs of the University of Chicago

Winter/21

Healthy, inexpensive, simple, and quick.

Winter/21

First-year cross-country runners start the academic year off with an altitude adjustment.