Tori Lee

Sojourner Truth Festival to bring together generations of Black women filmmakers Two black women sit next to each other looking into the distance. The older women in red has her arm around the younger one and is holding a grape. They are surrounded by vegetation and candles. A fruit basket is visible in the foreground.

Sojourner Truth Festival to bring together generations of Black women filmmakers

UChicago symposium to commemorate the original festival held nearly 50 years ago

Oriental Institute restores ancient Egyptian monuments threatened by climate change A man standing on scaffolding places a large stone block on a forklift driving by another man. The scaffolding is against a stone gateway. A larger temple complex is visible in the background.

Oriental Institute restores ancient Egyptian monuments threatened by climate change

Institute led dismantling and reconstruction of three monumental gates in danger of collapse

Neubauer Collegium announces new research projects for 2023-24 Close up of painting by Rick Lowe divided into eight panes. Squares shaped like dominoes cross the canvas like train tracks.

Neubauer Collegium announces new research projects for 2023-24

UChicago faculty-led research combines humanities, social sciences, the arts and more to investigate complex problems

What makes a book a book? A an open book shaped like a theater with the main story on the stage and the audience in the wings. In the center scene the fairy godmother is waving her wand at Cinderella.

What makes a book a book?

UChicago’s curator of rare books challenges visitors to decide in new choose-your-own-path exhibition

Students who study abroad are more civically engaged Man walking in city with backpack and luggage.

Students who study abroad are more civically engaged

A recent study from UChicago’s Center for Practical Wisdom found higher civic behaviors in students who had studied in another country

Piece of earliest known Black-produced film found hiding in plain sight Black and white still from the film The Trooper of Troop K. A man and woman sit on a front stoop looking at each other. The woman is holding a letter. In the left-hand corner is a superimposed scene of a man in a military hat talking to a woman.

Piece of earliest known Black-produced film found hiding in plain sight

UChicago scholar helps identify silent-era cinema fragment embedded in another film

Shining a light on Paul B. Moses, trailblazing art historian Paul B. Moses squatting next to his large painting Ice House which depicts an outdoor landscape scene with window-less building and clouds.

Shining a light on Paul B. Moses, trailblazing art historian

UChicago Laboratory Schools teacher honors his late father in an intimate exhibition

Class immerses students in monochromatic art exhibition A group of students sit in an art exhibition gallery. They all look at Christine Mehring who is sitting on the floor and pointing up at a white painting by Robert Ryman.

Class immerses students in monochromatic art exhibition

‘Monochrome Multitudes’ at Smart Museum challenges viewers to see multiple meanings in a singular color

Middle schoolers tackle climate change in a new alternate reality game Illustration of Chicago Theater and surrounding buildings covered in plants and foliage.

Middle schoolers tackle climate change in a new alternate reality game

Classrooms pilot 'Cene'—designed by UChicago scholars to encourage creative problem-solving

1919 brings story of Chicago race riots to the stage Eve L Ewing sits next to Sasha-Ann Simons on stage at an event. Eve is holding a microphone while talking.

1919 brings story of Chicago race riots to the stage

UChicago’s Eve L. Ewing discusses Steppenwolf Theatre adaptation of her collection of poems