Science & Medicine

Stacy Tessler Lindau, AM’02, is finding innovative ways to make health care fair.

Ka Yee C. Lee—former provost, sometime singer, and forever scientist—hopes to nurture discovery in the Physical Sciences Division.

A scholar’s new book highlights the big impact of small insects.

New research reveals a previously unrecognized cause of tectonic plate slippage

Frances Oldham Kelsey, PhD’38, MD’50 (1914–2015), shaped drug testing and approval processes at the FDA.

A virtual exhibit illuminates the life of the mind—and of the universe.

High above Antarctica, a balloon-borne instrument searched for signs of elusive neutrinos.
Join a private tour of Jackson Park’s spring wildflowers with biologist Michael LaBarbera.
Psychologist Howard Nusbaum, LAB’72, studies how we learn from experience.
Gordon Burghardt, SB’63, PhD’66, has dedicated his career to understanding other species’ inner lives.
Maybe it’s not just a brownfield or a wastescape. Maybe it’s a novel ecosystem.
David Keith believes geoengineering deserves serious consideration as a tool to combat climate change.