Science & Medicine
Psychologist Sian Beilock studies what makes people choke under pressure and offers techniques to prevent those mental meltdowns.
For five decades, Stuart Rice and his doctoral students have had great chemistry.
Geophysicist Raymond Pierrehumbert studies global warming on Earth and the climate physics of distant planets.
A Pritzker School of Medicine course teaches observation skills through the study of art.
July–Aug/11
In a rare procedure, UChicago doctors give a patient a new heart, liver, and kidney.
Archaeologist Hannah Chazin searches for late Bronze Age artifacts in Armenia.
Amy Lehman envisions treating patients from isolated African villages aboard a hospital boat.
Sept–Oct/11
Cell biologist Stephanie Levi’s Night Labs series makes science accessible.
Sept–Oct/11
For 41 years Stanton Friedman, SB'55, SM'56, has traveled the world with a simple message: UFOs are real.
Nadrian Seeman, SB’66, uses DNA not to study biology but as a building block for nano-tiny structures.
Monica Vela, MD’93, who has faced health-care disparities as both a physician and a patient, teaches students about the issues that afflict underserved communities, inspiring many to reach out.