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

Big Brains podcast: Taking Aliens Seriously, with Avi Loeb

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COVID-19

UChicago scientists design ‘nanotraps’ to catch and clear coronavirus from tissue

A vial of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine

COVID-19 vaccine

UChicago alum explains how Moderna helped launch a vaccine revolution

Prof. Deborah Nelson

Convocation 2021

Prof. Deborah Nelson named speaker for Convocation ceremony

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Awards

Five UChicago faculty elected to National Academy of Sciences

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Harris Public Policy

How gender bias impacts college career guidance—and dissuades women from certain jobs

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Awards

Eight UChicago faculty elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Awards

UChicago political scientist Susan Stokes named Carnegie Fellow

Announcement

Three Law School scholars named to presidential Supreme Court reform commission

Explainers

The solar wind, explained

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The New Normal

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

Neil Shubin

Ryerson Lecture

Prof. Neil Shubin discusses story, science behind ‘missing link’ fossils

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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story

In unique year, UChicago students find togetherness—apart