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Two new learning centers to open in the ‘heart’ of campus

The historic Harper Memorial Library and Stuart Hall reading rooms will be transformed into vibrant, 24-hour student learning centers.


Julia Morse

Battling economic inequality in the classroom

Tinker Visiting Professor Ricardo Paes de Barros gives students tools to tackle poverty, social inequality, and social policy.


Greg Holden

What happens in Vegas comes home with ‘scavvies’

University of Chicago’s 22nd annual scavenger hunt pitted erudition and razorlike reasoning against tasks such as Item 33: Have a potato break the sound barrier.


Julia Morse

Going viral with a new music search engine Songza

A website developed by University of Chicago alumnus Aza Raskin, AB’05, allows users to listen to music for free.


Valerie Vedral

The Social Life of Forests

An unprecedented conference brings thirty scholars to Chicago to rethink the way humans and the world interact.


Thomas Gaulkin/Center for International Studies

Organ and carillon reunite at Rockefeller

University of Chicago’s carillonneur and organist enjoy a special place in history.


Michael Drapa

Organ and carillon reunite at Rockefeller

University of Chicago’s carillonneur and organist enjoy a special place in history, as two newly renovated jewels return to their former glory.


Michael Drapa

New institute honors leading 20th-century economist

The University of Chicago established the Milton Friedman Institute to honor the contributions of the famed Chicago scholar, considered by many to be the leading economist of the 20th century.


William Harms

University of Chicago alumni give $25 million in support of new Library

The Joe and Rika Mansueto Library was designed by acclaimed architect Helmut Jahn and will have the capacity to house up to 3.5 million volumes of print material—setting the University of Chicago apart from peers who are moving books off-campus.


Julia Morse

Paleontologist adds to fossil record, a notable prize

Rebecca Terry, graduate student in Geophysical Sciences, was awarded the 2007 Alfred Sherwood Romer Prize from the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology.


Steve Koppes