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Student chronicles Iraq’s intellectual crisis

Second-year Matthew Schweitzer studies how violence ushered in decline of country’s universities.


Dianna Douglas

Core combines timeless courses and fresh ideas

Years of faculty discussion help update storied curriculum.


Rachel Cromidas

Rockefeller fosters sense of community

Elizabeth Davenport, dean of Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, explains the chapel’s importance to the UChicago community. 


Susie Allen

What makes Nobel speeches endure

UChicago laureates Fama and Hansen join tradition of lectures that speak to history.


Jeremy Manier

NORC tracks Americans’ changing views

After 40 years, General Social Survey finds complex opinions on sex, politics, and more.


Lydialyle Gibson

Environmental research inspires new Rhodes Scholar

Fourth-year Samuel Greene plans to study renewable energy and climate change at Oxford.


Dianna Douglas

Scholars probe interface between arts and science

ArtslScience Initiative links divergent disciplines in novel collaborations.


Drew Messinger-Michaels

Morgane Richer La Fleche

A diplomat for a week: Advocating for the economic empowerment of women, from Moscow to Hyde Park and beyond.


Austin Ward