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Hyde Park’s greenest denizens and the Magazine’s greenest editors.
With a historian’s attention to the founding ideals of the College, Dean John W. Boyer implements an ambitious vision for the decades to come.
... WUCB was looking for new members? ... the RSO Alice’s Restaurant formed? ... Muddy Waters played Bartlett Gymnasium? ... costumed students celebrated Halloween in Ida Noyes? ... Whitney Houston dominated the charts with her Dolly Parton cover? ... the 2008 women's rugby team wore gowns for an end-of-the-season scrimmage? ... the Class of 2011 celebrated at their first Alumni Weekend class dinner?
As headlines warn of student debt, private institutions, with the help of philanthropy, can make college attainable.
The Magazine’s undergraduate interns have reported on just about everything under the Hyde Park sun—and beyond.
UChicago researchers study evolution after mass extinctions, weigh whether taste or calories make food more appealing, make the first planetary discovery attributed to NASA's Spritzer Space Telescope, solve a problem of the Nth degree, and show that a sports-based program can reduce violent crime.
A new center where humanities and social sciences intersect, Freakonomics inspires a TV drama, and an acclaimed physicist comes to UChicago.
Readers weigh in on Chicago-school economics, ancient reconstructions, recent campus architecture, sexuality’s discussion worthiness, and the messy business of who’s the youngest Pritzker graduate.