You’re graduating. Now what?
There’s no small comfort in knowing the structure of every academic quarter for four years. Although students complain about midterms, reading assignments, and problem sets, the prospect of leaving the...
View ArticleEnsuring equity
Sarah Wake, associate provost and director of the Office for Equal Opportunity Programs, joined the University last October to oversee efforts to ensure all members of the UChicago community are...
View ArticleA unified theory
In 1961 University of Chicago faculty members conducting space exploration research were spread across and off campus. Physicist John Simpson—a pioneer who flew the first cosmic-ray experiments to...
View ArticleLEGO star
David Pickett, AB’07, can’t remember a time when he didn’t play with LEGO. “It’s kind my native language,” he says. “It’s just always felt incredibly natural to me. I learned to build before I learned...
View ArticleLittle scientists
When Erica Reischer, AM’96, PhD’00, and her husband enrolled their new puppy in an obedience class more than a decade ago, she discovered a sneaky truth: the class was as much about training the couple...
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TRAPPIST-1 101
Last week astronomers announced the discovery of seven Earth-sized planets 40 light-years away (12 parsecs to Star Wars fans) orbiting the ultracool dwarf star Tags: Exoplanets
View ArticleMeet the queen of Chicago’s St. Patrick’s Day parade
This Saturday, March 11, Chicago will celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with a parade downtown, a tradition since 1955. Always held the Saturday before St. Patrick’s Day, the parade begins at Balbo and...
View ArticleModo, Rockefeller Chapel’s cat, tells all
When the Magazineprofiled Quasimodo Rockefeller in 2011, he was not quite seven months old and new at his post as chapel cat at Rockefeller Memorial Chapel.Tags: Animals
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The map and the territory
Cartography once required the painstaking creation of physical maps by hand. Today anyone with an internet connection can be a mapmaker. Advancements in geographical information systems (GIS)—systems...
View ArticleThe future of science fiction is not American
Ada Palmer, assistant professor of history, writes two kinds of books. In the scholarly category she’s published Reading Lucretius in the Renaissance (Harvard University Press, 2014), about how...
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Ask me anything about money
Remember the index card of financial advice that went viral online?Tags: Financial Planning
View ArticleReturn voyage
After three years steering monetary policy in India as the country’s top central banker, Raghuram Rajan has returned home to the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where he is the...
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Photo bombs
Delightful, spooky, and dark images fascinate Louis Kaplan, PhD’88, professor of history and theory of photography and new media at the University of Toronto.Tags: PhotographyHumor
View ArticleThe more things change ...
In 1955, Joan Feitler, AM’55—Joan Elden at the time—wrote a sociology master’s thesis: “The Woman Lawyer: A Report.” She talked to 50 female lawyers in Chicago to conduct the first academic study of...
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Career counseling from the Businesslady
For two years Courtney C. W. Guerra, AB’05, juggled a secret identity.Tags: CareersJobsAdvice
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