University history
Winter/24
The untold story of Cora Belle Jackson, AB 1896, the first Black graduate of the University of Chicago.
Summer/23
From 1931 to the early 1960s, students in the College had to make the grade.
Summer/23
Marjorie Sullivan Lee, AB’43, lived in Foster Hall, roller skated in Ida Noyes, and watched Robert Maynard Hutchins go to work.
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.