Building preeminence.

Few processes are as fundamental to life as that of one cell dividing into two.

Teens in a UChicago Medicine program used Jimmy Kimmel-style interviews and social media to persuade their peers that research is more than lab rats and paperwork.

The impact of geochemist Clair C. Patterson, PhD’51, who determined the age of the earth and fought lead pollution.

Water is life, but ever scarcer. The most promising approaches to a mounting global problem may be molecular.

Comer Children’s Hospital, by the numbers.

The discovery of two species suggests greater variety of the earliest mammaliaforms.

UChicago anesthesiologist Shakeela Hassan advocates for the healing force of interfaith music and human sound.

The importance of measles immunization, by the numbers.

A UChicago Medicine program shares specialized knowledge to improve health care in the city.

Leading cosmologist Wendy Freedman trains a telescopic lens on the biggest questions in the universe.

Zachary Cannon, AM’99, became attuned to the natural world all around him in Chicago’s urban landscape.