Why humor can look a lot like deception
A linguistics course examines what jokes and lies share
Edith Rickert: Novelist, Chaucer scholar and WWI code breaker
New biography of UChicago professor and alumna shines light on her contributions to cryptography and medieval scholarship
The Scopes ‘Monkey Trial’: 100 years later
On the anniversary of the landmark case on evolution, look back at the role of UChicago scholars and alumni
Scholar unearths ‘extraordinary’ lost writing by formerly enslaved man
Jonathan D.S. Schroeder, PhD'16, helps republish 1855 autobiography by John Swanson Jacobs
‘I won’t have anything to do with amoral dudes’
Sam Greenlee, X’57, distinguished himself as a Foreign Service Officer, then found his true mission as a writer ready to challenge readers
Scholar of Yiddish talks about cranes, cuckoos and children
Jessica Kirzane takes part in collaborative project that’s a fundraiser for refugees
When a nurse becomes a patient: UChicago alum reflects on ‘indifference’ in health care
In new book, Theresa Brown shares experience with cancer—and what humane care could look like
