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At age 88, graduate completes College journey

After lifetime of discovery, retired doctor Albert Liebman finishes degree that began in 1939.


Sara Olkon

University announces Gray Center for Arts & Inquiry

Gift from Richard and Mary L. Gray to support novel program linking artists, scholars.


Sarah Galer

Award-winning teachers find the unexpected

For Valentina Pichugin and other winners of Quantrell and Booth teaching awards, the classroom spurs new questions.


Susie Allen

Mansueto Library creates new space for thought

Opening this week, the new library serves a “hybrid culture” of physical and digital holdings.


Susie Allen

Terrorism research gains world’s attention

Following Osama bin Laden’s death, experts like Robert Pape and Jenna Jordan ponder nation’s next steps.


Jeremy Manier

Ready, set . . . Scav Hunt!

Beloved campus tradition of Scavenger Hunt marks 25th anniversary—and shoots for a world record.


Sara Olkon

Siberian hot springs reveal ancient ecology

Geochemist Albert Colman follows trail from Kamchatka microbes into the history of Earth’s atmosphere


Steve Koppes

Language quest turns to the brain

UChicago linguists use innovative tools to find the common features of languages.


Susie Allen

Fighting tuberculosis in India’s slums

Sandeep Ahuja, MPP’06, policy alum from the Harris School, finds innovative ways to track and treat impoverished TB patients


Steven Yaccino

Freakonomics ideas flourish in the classroom

Economist Steven Levitt’s national following has not dimmed his love of teaching undergraduates.


William Harms