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Where outer space and medicine meet

Two University of Chicago Pritzker Medical School students author an American Medical Association policy supporting NASA‘s role in advancing medicine.


Eileen Norris

A 3,000-year-old patient

Radiologists and Egyptologists team up to analyze Meresamun, a nearly 3,000 year-old-Egyptian mummy.


Suzanne Wilder

Art historian takes a road trip to renew her spirit

Erin Hogan, AM’91, PhD’99, drove 3,000 miles, solo, to view the massive land art of the West.


Laura Putre

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

Citizenship for sale?

The University of Chicago Nobel laureate Gary Becker proposes putting a price tag on immigration.


Patricia Houlihan

Politics of the hip-hop generation

Bakari Kitwana, the 2007-2008 Artist-in-Residence in the University’s Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture, discusses hip hop.


Josh Schonwald

Two new learning centers to open in the ‘heart’ of campus

The historic Harper Memorial Library and Stuart Hall reading rooms will be transformed into vibrant, 24-hour student learning centers.


Julia Morse

Battling economic inequality in the classroom

Tinker Visiting Professor Ricardo Paes de Barros gives students tools to tackle poverty, social inequality, and social policy.


Greg Holden

What happens in Vegas comes home with ‘scavvies’

University of Chicago’s 22nd annual scavenger hunt pitted erudition and razorlike reasoning against tasks such as Item 33: Have a potato break the sound barrier.


Julia Morse

Going viral with a new music search engine Songza

A website developed by University of Chicago alumnus Aza Raskin, AB’05, allows users to listen to music for free.


Valerie Vedral