The University of Chicago Magazine

Mar–Apr/13

Career Advancement executive director Meredith Daw discusses the growth in services that assist students in preparing for the future.

Mar–Apr/12

Social critic and Victorian historian Gertrude Himmelfarb, AM’44, PhD’50, looks back on her Chicago education.

Mar–Apr/13

After more than 20 years in the field, the Hubble Space Telescope’s time dwindles.

Mar–Apr/13

Part of a visual tradition that reaches back to Romanticism, images from the Hubble Space Telescope awe as they inform.
Mar–Apr/13

The Sahmat collective galvanizes artists across India to create work that resists divisive politics. For 24 years, famous and fledgling artists alike have painted portraits, designed posters, performed on city streets, and more. A retrospective exhibition at the Smart Museum of Art tells their story.

Mar–Apr/13

From grief to decay to funerary traditions, Caitlin Doughty’s popular web video series tackles the tough questions about death.

Mar–Apr/13

Mortician, medievalist, and video sage Caitlin Doughty tries to change the way Americans think about death.

Mar–Apr/13

On walks across Mexico City, a historian finds a path to the past.

Mar–Apr/13

Readers write in about driving to India, interactions with historical figures, academic partnerships past, pocketbook politics, and more.

Mar–Apr/13

A scholar reflects and confesses.

Mar–Apr/13
Recent faculty, staff, board, and alumni obituaries.
Mar–Apr/13

Memories of professor Richard Stern from a student and friend.