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Walk down the sidewalk between Hull Gate and Botany Pond and you may need to duck beneath a canopy of aralias that overhang the path leading to Cobb Gate and 57th Street just beyond.

A PhD defense can be nerve-wracking, even for Yuval Levin, conservative author and former Bush administration staffer.

Graduate students extend examination of contemporary life to broader literary audience.

Graduate students extend examination of contemporary life to broader literary audience.

Looking back on his intellectual journey in a 1979 speech, U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, AB’41, made the case that his core legal skills stemmed from his training as an undergraduate English student at the University of Chicago.

With projects ranging from short films to a musical score for a circus, students get creative with Arts Council Summer Fellowships.

Nell Minow, JD’77, is shaping a national debate on executive salaries and accountability.

Andrew Davis (left) and Lawrence Grossman pioneered study of the solar system’s chemical origins. Their new namesakes are minerals from the oldest known rocks.

With august roots as the nation’s oldest student film society, Doc screens something for everyone, from the French New Wave to Space Jam.

The University started Collegiate Scholars to help Chicago Public Schools students set high goals. Now the first graduating class has set a national example.