Honoring MLK's Legacy

Dr. King’s words resonate across UChicago during daylong readings

Event connects community to civil rights leader’s speeches and writings

When King made history at UChicago

Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave three ‘glorious’ speeches on campus between 1956 and 1966

Episode 152

The little-known secrets to a good life, with Shigehiro Oishi

Psychologist argues to look beyond happiness and meaning to find fulfillment

Episode 151

How bioelectronics could heal our bodies and minds, with Bozhi Tian

Scientists design living devices to fight infections, power the heart and regulate the brain

Episode 150

Could a fungal pandemic be “The Last of Us?” with Arturo Casadevall

Scientists warn against a potential health threat due to climate change, resistance to drugs

Episode 149

What’s the truth about alcohol’s benefits and risks? with Tim Stockwell

Research on red wine and moderate drinking were skewed, scholar claims

Episode 148

What happens when we die? with Sam Parnia

Research on consciousness sheds new light on the line between life and death

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AROUND UCHICAGO

Collaboration to provide up to $130 million to fuel drug discovery, development at UChicago

Launch of Hyde Park Discovery between UChicago, Deerfield Management aims to advance the development of new medicines and other life-saving treatments

Doomsday Clock moves closest ever to apocalypse—at 89 seconds to midnight

'Any move towards midnight should be taken as an indication of extreme danger and an unmistakable warning,' said the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Making prosthetic limbs feel more real with brain-computer interfaces

UChicago scientists are making major progress on a technology designed to give nuanced “feeling” to prosthetic hands, by delivering gentle electrical stimulation to the brain.

Exhibitions on Pan-Africanism highlight Neubauer Collegium’s decade of human-centered research

UChicago center brings scholarship to the public through art of Betye Saar, Otolith Group and Art Institute’s ‘Project a Black Planet’

SPECIAL SERIES

UChicago Class Visits

UChicago students engage their senses outside the classroom

Undergraduates create art by listening, touching, tasting and smelling our impact on the environment

Meet A UChicagoan

Unraveling the ancient past, one tablet at a time

UChicago student Danielle Levy finds passion for the Akkadian language through Core curriculum

Dispatches from Abroad

UChicago’s Study Abroad contest winners share the stories behind their art

Students discuss creative process behind photo, video and writing entries

UChicago Explainer Series

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Carbon-14 dating, explained

First developed in the late 1940s at UChicago, carbon dating can determine the age of organic materials as old as 60,000 years.

Improv, explained

Modern improv comedy began at the University of Chicago in the 1950s.

Events

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[Gesamt]kunstwerk

[Gesamt]kunstwerk

Cochrane-Woods Art Center (CWAC)

Feb

4

A Pressing Call: 500 Years of Women Printing

A Pressing Call: 500 Years of Women Printing

Regenstein Library, The Special Collections Research Center