University breeds rare species of interdisciplinary scientist
Chicago academic ‘ecosystem’ fosters broad-based graduate training in evolutionary biology.
Steve Koppes
Janet Rowley to receive Presidential Medal of Freedom for cancer chromosome studies
Her discoveries showed cancer is a genetic disease.
John Easton
Faculty, students share scholarly spotlight
On the cusp of independent careers, graduate students and postdocs team up with veteran scholars on the cutting edge.
Greg Borzo
Fossil flowers prove to be a fertile field
Paleontologist discovers blossoming plant diversity in 100-million-year-old specimens.
Steve Koppes
Science meets art and the sparks fly
Cutting-edge research and technology combine with artistic imagination and creativity in exhibition.
Naomi Beck
A $20 million gift, a new agenda in science
Bill Eckhardt, MS '70, has donated $20 million to build new fields of scientific expertise.
Steve Koppes
The Social Life of Forests
An unprecedented conference brings thirty scholars to Chicago to rethink the way humans and the world interact.
Thomas Gaulkin/Center for International Studies
Paleontologist adds to fossil record, a notable prize
Rebecca Terry, graduate student in Geophysical Sciences, was awarded the 2007 Alfred Sherwood Romer Prize from the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology.
Steve Koppes
Neil Shubin: Tracing fins to limbs
Since making headlines two years ago with a surprising 375-million-year-old fossil, the evolutionary biologist Neil Shubin continues to unlock the secrets of life’s formerly blurry transition from sea to land.
Hannah Hayes