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Big Brains podcast: Outbidding polluters to combat climate change

Emancipation Day in Richmond, Virginia, 1905

Historic lessons

What Juneteenth tells us about the history of emancipation

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Q&A with doctor

Do I need a vaccine if I’ve already had COVID-19?

Barack Obama

Inspiring civic leaders

Three UChicago graduate schools, Obama Foundation partner on scholars program

University of Chicago scientists around first nuclear reaction, Chicago Pile-1

Core knowledge

The first nuclear reactor, explained

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Pathbreaking figure

100 years ago, Georgiana Simpson made history as the first Black woman to graduate with a Ph.D.

WJT Mitchell

Critical Inquiry

Longtime journal editor W. J. T. Mitchell reflects on career, the loss of his son

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Pulitzer Prize

UChicago scholar Mitchell S. Jackson wins Pulitzer Prize for essay on Ahmaud Arbery

Announcements

Zeenat Rahman named executive director of Institute of Politics

Startups

New Venture Challenge awards record $1.6 million in 25th annual competition

Announcements

Matthew Tirrell reappointed as dean of PME
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New book

Should publishing leaked information be a crime? Experts examine national security, free speech

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The New Normal

Life after the COVID-19 vaccine: Envisioning the ‘new normal’

Class of 2021

UChicago celebrates Convocation

Graduation cap flies through the air at Soldier FIeld

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Convocation

UChicago’s Class of 2021 graduates tell their stories