Alumni

Edith Rickert: Novelist, Chaucer scholar and WWI code breaker Portrait of Edith Rickert

Edith Rickert: Novelist, Chaucer scholar and WWI code breaker

New biography of UChicago professor and alumna shines light on her contributions to cryptography and medieval scholarship

UChicago announces 2026 Alumni Award honorees Cobb Gate

UChicago announces 2026 Alumni Award honorees

Recipients span fields from theoretical physics to global economic policy

Artist-mathematician finds beauty in symmetry Carolyn Yackel with a basket of fiber balls

Artist-mathematician finds beauty in symmetry

Math scholar and alumna Carolyn Yackel uses fiber arts to explore some of the most fundamental patterns in geometry

Trailblazing ‘Halo’ video game producer advises students to ‘make stuff’ Alex Seropian standing with folded arms beside a display case labeled "UChicago Game Design," surrounded by game-related items and notes.

Trailblazing ‘Halo’ video game producer advises students to ‘make stuff’

Alum Alex Seropian of Bungie, Look North World and more returns to UChicago as keynote for Year of Games

Nobel laureate John Jumper returns to UChicago to discuss the AlphaFold protein revolution John Jumper speaks at the Herman Bloch Memorial Lecture

Nobel laureate John Jumper returns to UChicago to discuss the AlphaFold protein revolution

Watch alum John Jumper deliver Bloch Lecture at standing-room-only event

How an ‘accidental chemist’ honed his approach at UChicago on the way to a Nobel Prize John Jumper, PhD’17

How an ‘accidental chemist’ honed his approach at UChicago on the way to a Nobel Prize

Nobel laureate John Jumper, SM’12, PhD’17, recalls multidisciplinary journey to creating AlphaFold program

A UChicago student finds connection and career path in Berlin Dannerys Peralta stands holding and speaking into a microphone in front of a group of women sitting and eating at a long table outside.

A UChicago student finds connection and career path in Berlin

Meeting with alum during career trek inspires entrepreneurial journey

Scav reflections: “for the love of the pursuit and the joy in the attempt” Two people lunge at each other holding churros while a crowd watches.

Scav reflections: “for the love of the pursuit and the joy in the attempt”

Students and alumni share their memories of UChicago’s legendary competition

UChicago alum selected as 2024 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow Photo of Legate-Yang smiling looking at camera with greenery in the background

UChicago alum selected as 2024 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow

Russell Legate-Yang, AB’22, to pursue research to improve K-12 public school effectiveness

A principled politician: The story of Patsy Mink, the first woman of color elected to Congress Black and white photo of Rep. Mink in a suit speaking into a handheld microphone, looking to the side

A principled politician: The story of Patsy Mink, the first woman of color elected to Congress

Known as a powerful speaker, Mink, JD’51, passed key legislation that changed the country