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Gift

Landmark gift to UChicago is nation’s largest ever for the study of social work, policy, and practice

How alum Kim Ng became a baseball pioneer

Joey Brink

Carillon

How UChicago’s carillonneur finds inspiration during the pandemic

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Health Equity

Vulnerable groups often overlooked in clinical trials of new treatments for COVID-19

Doomsday Clock

Big Brains Podcast

Big Brains podcast: Doomsday Clock’s ‘historic wake-up call’

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Education

The ethics of reopening K-12 schools during the COVID-19 pandemic

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Liquid Crystals

In step toward autonomous materials, researchers design patterns in self-propelling liquid crystals

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Astrophysics

Ceramic chips inside meteorites hint at wild days of the early solar system

Awards

Two University of Chicago researchers named 2021 Sloan Fellows

Crown Family School

Landmark gift is largest ever for study of social work, policy, and practice

Convocation

University of Chicago announces plans for Convocation this June

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Arts

Drawn from music: Art exhibition opens window into composers’ creative process

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Arts

Court Theatre to host Chicago premiere of ‘Theatre for One’ microplays

Only at UChicago

“For younger people, I want to let them see the future, whatever the present may be.”

Timuel Black

Timuel Black

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Gift

$25 million gift to UChicago will support work on global health and social development