The Point: Filling the appetite for ideas
Graduate students extend examination of contemporary life to broader literary audience.
Sara Olkon
Minow leads push for corporate reform
Nell Minow, JD’77, is shaping a national debate on executive salaries and accountability.
Meg Breslin
New names of ancient minerals honor scientists
Andrew Davis (left) and Lawrence Grossman pioneered study of the solar system’s chemical origins. Their new namesakes are minerals from the oldest known rocks.
Steve Koppes
Public school students forge path to top colleges
The University started Collegiate Scholars to help Chicago Public Schools students set high goals. Now the first graduating class has set a national example.
Sara Olkon
Broad outlook brings success for Disney leader
Leading the finances of the world’s biggest media and entertainment company takes creativity, says Jay Rasulo, AM’82, MBA’84.
Phil Rockrohr
2010 Spring Convocation Speech
Read Paul Sereno’s convocation speech, "Historical Contingency and Ultimate Aims."
Paul Sereno
Becker builds on a career of original thinking
Eighteen years after winning economics Nobel, this year’s Alumni Medalist still pushes frontiers with research, teaching, and a popular blog.
Meg Breslin
Passion for writing connects students, teachers
Mentors such as author James Fallows help students explore their craft in Vare Nonfiction Writer-in-Residence program.
Susie Allen
Nano-level collaboration yields big results
With self-assembling particles and complex nanocrystals, Elena Shevchenko and Dmitri Talapin lead the search for new materials with technological promise.
Steve Koppes