The University of Chicago Magazine

Sept–Oct/12

The Magazine’s undergraduate interns have reported on just about everything under the Hyde Park sun—and beyond.

Sept–Oct/12

UChicago researchers study evolution after mass extinctions, weigh whether taste or calories make food more appealing, make the first planetary discovery attributed to NASA's Spritzer Space Telescope, solve a problem of the Nth degree, and show that a sports-based program can reduce violent crime.

Sept–Oct/12

A new center where humanities and social sciences intersect, Freakonomics inspires a TV drama, and an acclaimed physicist comes to UChicago.

Sept–Oct/12

Readers weigh in on Chicago-school economics, ancient reconstructions, recent campus architecture, sexuality’s discussion worthiness, and the messy business of who’s the youngest Pritzker graduate.

Sept–Oct/12

Recent faculty, staff, board, and alumni obituaries.

Apr/1995

A bookcase full of potboilers, mysteries, satires—and even some great books—have the same backdrop: the University of Chicago.

July–Aug/12

How phoenixing was born.

July–Aug/12
Historian James Sparrow traces the roots of “big government.”
July–Aug/12

The legacy of a Chicago medievalist lives on in his doodles.

July–Aug/12

Argonne and Fermilab make a big economic and educational impact.
July–Aug/12

The new store might not be as quirky, but it will have better temperature control.

July–Aug/12

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