Meet a UChicagoan

A regular series focusing on the people who make UChicago a distinct intellectual community.

 

Sr. Lect. Borja Sotomayor plays cards with some of his students during a recent 'Hack Night'

Geeky T-shirts, open door policy make UChicago computer scientist beloved campus figure

UChicago student Jon Zaghloul, a broadcaster and podcast host, at Stagg Field

Between classes, student talks sports and draws big names to podcast in his dorm

Samira Ahmed looks at books in the 57th St Bookstore

Young Adult novelist and alum writes stories of ‘revolutionary girls’

Riley Snorton in apartment

Scholar explores overlapping worlds of black and trans communities

Carol Fisher Saller

An editor takes the fear out of The Chicago Manual of Style

Devshi Mehrotra

How one recent alum is using technology to tackle inequality

Ron McAdow

Going nuts! Alum’s peanut-driven animations charm audiences

Sam Pluta

Electronic musician’s offbeat approach melds sound with computer science

Claire Zurkowski

Geologist weaves science into her art at the loom

Justin Kasper

He once created a nuclear reactor in his dorm. Now he’s building the impossible for NASA.