Campus & Community

The Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation Could Be a Big Deal

Article examines UChicago’s promising research programs following the announcement of the Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation


Restored 'Race Films' Find New Audiences

Audio: Prof. Jacqueline Stewart helps curate project to restore more than a dozen ‘race films’


Study: Slow Thinking Reduces Crime in Chicago

Video: Asst. Prof. Anuj Shah discusses how Becoming A Man program keeps male youths in school and out of trouble


What a trauma center would add to Chicago's South Side

Article explores the benefits of UChicago Medicine’s proposed adult trauma center for the local South Side community


University of Chicago to Get $50 Million From Venture Capitalist

Alumna Harriet Heyman and investor Sir Michael Moritz give $50 million to UChicago in support of Odyssey Scholarship Program


Obama Library Finalist Meets With South Side Community Leaders

Architect David Adjaye meets with alumnus Timuel Black and Susan Sher, senior adviser to President Zimmer, about the Obama Presidential Center


Eastman Egg Food Truck Brings More Than Eggs to Hyde Park Students

Alumni-run food truck partners with Office of Civic Engagement to provide healthy food to Hyde Park students


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U. of C. Preps for Trauma Center, Announces Plan To Build New ER

Article discusses University of Chicago Medicine’s plans for new emergency room and adult trauma center


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Illinois’s billionaires—not the State—could be the salvation of Illinois’s hungry, sick and homeless

In op-ed, Lect. Rebecca Sive argues that billionaires should ‘end this shameful chapter in Illinois’ history’ and fund the needy


Federal proposal seeks to create summer and youth jobs

Crime Lab study finds that students who participated in Chicago summer program had a 43 percent reduction in violent-crime arrests