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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

A 3,000-year-old patient

Radiologists and Egyptologists team up to analyze Meresamun, a nearly 3,000 year-old-Egyptian mummy.


Suzanne Wilder

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

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

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