Artists who defied convention
The University of Chicago Department of Visual Arts’ exhibition reveals little-known South Side scene that reflects the turmoil of the times.
Susie Allen
Views of art, self on ‘other’ side of globe
University of Chicago undergraduates travel to Spain to see masterpieces, and themselves, in a different context.
Greg Holden
Music, Movies, and the Mind
University of Chicago PhD student David Bashwiner's mind-expanding score reaches the big screen.
Michelle Rapaport
On a mission for Burma
Cristina Moon, AB’ 05, began as a student activist. Now she dedicates her career to the plight of the Burmese people.
Libby Ellis
Stone Age graveyard reveals Green Sahara
Paleontologist Paul Sereno and his team discovered the richest collection of prehistoric human remains known anywhere in the Sahara.
Steve Koppes
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
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