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Scholars revive China’s broken treasures

Historical sleuthing and digital techniques help Smart Museum recreate Buddhist cave temples.


Susie Allen

Helping the world’s poor claim legal rights

When lawyers for International Justice Mission first encountered a Kenyan inmate named Peter in late 2009, he had been languishing in prison without bail for 12 months on charges of robbery with violence—an offense punishable by death.


Sarah Galer

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

Work-life balance benefits low-wage workers, employers

Assoc. Prof. Susan Lambert finds people who need flexible arrangements often don’t have them


Miller-McCune

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

Political thinker Levin passes final test

A PhD defense can be nerve-wracking, even for Yuval Levin, conservative author and former Bush administration staffer.


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

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