University history
08.30.2017
The University marks the 75th anniversary of Chicago Pile-1, the world’s first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear reaction.
Summer/17
Thoughts on academia, football, and that painting.
06.06.2017
President Beadle and the secret campaign to beautify the campus.
Apr/94
From our print archive: In a whirlwind campus visit in February 1994, novelist Kurt Vonnegut, AM’71, wowed a new generation of fans.
04.04.2017
Or, who’s that barefoot man on the roof of the president’s house?
03.20.2017
An ugly rug, a stolen Tropical Hut planter, and why the bust of Silas J. Cobb is displayed in such an odd location.
07.08.2016
Socialists squeak by Communists! Impostor students! And more from the straw poll of 1936.
01.07.2016
That’s what sculptor Virginio Ferrari would say, anyway.
Fall/15
The Division of the Physical Sciences celebrates UChicago’s 125th anniversary.
11.20.2015
A new documentary on philanthropist Julius Rosenwald leaves UChicago on the cutting room floor.