Note from the dean.

New computer science chair Michael Franklin discusses the past, present, and future of computation.

The Physics Research Center will unite theorists and experimentalists for the first time in half a century.

Former Argonne director; UChicago VP of research, trustee, and now representative on the Giant Magellan Telescope board; physicist; and retiring art school president Walter E. Massey enters a new phase.

How an automated loom inspired the earliest computer inventors.

Jonathan Simon blurs the line between matter and light.

Nobelist James Cronin twice expanded our sense of the possible, first in particle physics and then in astronomical observation.

Olufunmilayo Olopade is attacking cancer from all sides.

The connections between UChicago and the Marine Biological Laboratory go back more than a century.

Kelly Bulkeley, PhD’92, examines what our dreams reveal about our religion, our culture, and our politics.

Many 9/11 first responders still face serious health problems. Jacqueline Moline, AB’84, MD’88, has been helping them since 2001.