Blogger battles teen stereotypes
First-year Jamie Keiles gains national following with a smart critique of teen-oriented media.
Sara Olkon
Finding what makes constitutions endure
When the government of Kenya wanted outside advice this year on drafts of the country’s new constitution, one of their consultants was University of Chicago Law School professor Tom Ginsburg, one of the world’s foremost experts on how to write an ...
Sarah Galer
Center in Beijing opens with focus on collaboration
As nine pairs of scissors sliced through scarlet ribbon, a cheer went up on Wednesday from hundreds of people who filled the gleaming halls and galleries and classrooms of the University of Chicago’s Center in Beijing.
Brooke O’Neill
UChicago's botanic garden in bloom
In 1997 the American Public Gardens Association gave the University campus an official botanical garden designation. The botanical garden beds, which now number about 20, beautify the space and educate the visiting public about flora with labeled plan...
Campus gardens fulfill Olmsted’s vision
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.
William Harms
Summer Shakespeare makes campus a stage
Graduate students extend examination of contemporary life to broader literary audience.
Caroline O’Donovan
The Point: Filling the appetite for ideas
Graduate students extend examination of contemporary life to broader literary audience.
Sara Olkon
The Point: Filling the appetite for ideas
Graduate students extend examination of contemporary life to broader literary audience.
Ebony Education Roundtable
Leading experts on education, including representatives of the University of Chicago Urban Education Institute, joined other national leaders in discussing the challenges of urban education Wednesday at International House during the Ebony Education R...
Tracing Justice Stevens’ intellectual roots
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.
William E. Barnhart
Gene Schlickman