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