New digital collection to provide materials for scholars and filmmakers

The promise of new opportunity was in the air for representatives of 230 minority- and women-owned firms attending the University of Chicago’s 2017 Professional Services Symposium reception. “The symposium puts...Read more

Bigger, state-of-the-art facility represents step toward offering adult trauma care on South Side

The University of Chicago and the United States Army Research Laboratory held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the recently announced partnership between the organizations, and to observe Veterans Day with...Read more

Festival honors South Side roots of blues

12-hour arts festival includes live performances, art workshops, courtyard BBQ and more

Partnership provides free tennis coaching, academic tutoring

The University of Chicago will renovate the interior of the shuttered, 125-year-old Chicago Transit Authority Green Line stationhouse in Washington Park as part of an ongoing effort to establish a...Read more

The University of Chicago will award the 2017 Jesse L. Rosenberger Medal to Steve Coleman, a composer, saxophonist, educator and native of the city’s South Side. Coleman, who will receive...Read more

Engagement initiatives help community leader Jennifer Maddox

UChicago representatives presented updated plans for the Arts Block in Washington Park at an April 19 meeting and asked community residents for input on arts programming and the next phase...Read more

UChicago expands initiative to include faculty-led community projects

The University of Chicago will partner with the board of directors for the South East Chicago Commission over the next year to transition the SECC to an autonomous, self-governing entity...Read more

The University of Chicago recently welcomed representatives from 21 minority- and women-owned firms at the University’s eighth annual Professional Services Symposium , a two-day event designed to connect University administrators...Read more

Jazz saxophonist relishes inspiring community during South Side return

On a recent visit to the University of Chicago, high school students from the city’s South and West sides learned they already had taken a step toward preparing for the...Read more

Standing at the front of a tour bus as it rolls through the Pullman neighborhood, Jennifer Bransfield points out examples of the far South Side community’s ongoing revitalization. The tour...Read more

Hyde Park to host three-day arts festival in November

Yesomi Umolu will travel and conduct research for two-year project

First step of expansion plan implemented just four months after state approval