Orientation Week

Orientation Week

Incoming students take part in unique traditions

Robert J. Zimmer

Live webcast Sept. 22 at 3 p.m.

Opening Convocation 2019
Barbara Flynn Currie

Only at UChicago

“I would never have been in politics all these years if I had not been an optimist.”
—Barbara Flynn Currie, LAB’58, AB’68, AM’73

Aeon exhibit inside Mansueto

100 years of OI

Art installation inside Mansueto Library dome transforms OI’s ancient figures

Events

Jane Lopes: ‘Vignette’

5:30 PM

57th Street Wines

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Around UChicago

Merging black holes

Compton Lectures

Lecture series to examine growing research on gravitational waves

Obituary

William Meadow, pioneer in neonatal intensive care, 1948-2019

Policy brief

How to rein in the power of Big Tech

Oriental Institute

Ancient Persian artifact nearly 2,500 years old returns to UChicago
Ufuk Akcigit

Faculty honors

UChicago economist’s innovative research honored with 1.5 million euro prize

Asteroid crash

Climate

Dust from a giant asteroid crash caused an ancient ice age

Only at UChicago

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

Timuel Black —Timuel Black, AM’54

Carol Fisher Saller

Meet a UChicagoan

An editor takes the fear out of The Chicago Manual of Style