Science & Medicine

Jan–Feb/13

For ethicist and doctor Daniel Sulmasy, medical progress is about more than the body.

Jan–Feb/13

The road to safe, reliable bioweapon vaccines for children is fraught with ethical peril. On campus last fall, experts began to plot it out.

Jan–Feb/13

Exploring the attributes of low light, an architect and a physicist try to cultivate a dim awareness.

Nov–Dec/12

Physicist Joe Incandela, AB’81, SM’85, PhD’86, masters the art of discovery.

Nov–Dec/12

Alex Lickerman, AB’88, MD’92, explains how to construct an indestructible self.

11.01.2012

Investing in the pursuit of knowledge, physicist Joe Incandela says, is a sign of a healthy civilization.
Nov–Dec/12

Chicago empathy researchers test how far rats will go to rescue a cage mate in distress.

Nov–Dec/12

A composer and an astrophysicist embrace feeling lost in space.

10.12.2012

On a search for fossils, a doctor tends to the living.

Sept–Oct/12

Every year malaria infects hundreds of millions around the globe. Geneticist Thomas Wellems, PhD’80, MD’81, tries to stay one step ahead of the parasite.

Sept–Oct/12

A UChicago pediatric surgeon dies as he lived—helping children.

Sept–Oct/12

Six bison calves at Fermilab show that the laws of nature, as well as physics, always apply.