Science & Medicine

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

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

The Social Life of Forests

An unprecedented conference brings thirty scholars to Chicago to rethink the way humans and the world interact.


Thomas Gaulkin/Center for International Studies

Surgeon pioneers minimally invasive ‘heart’ surgery

University of Chicago’s Sudhir Srivastava is one of the few surgeons worldwide to use minimally invasive robotic tools.


Megan Seery

Paleontologist adds to fossil record, a notable prize

Rebecca Terry, graduate student in Geophysical Sciences, was awarded the 2007 Alfred Sherwood Romer Prize from the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology.


Steve Koppes

Goldwater scholars share passion for science

Two College students are among the 321 national students named Goldwater scholars by the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation for their outstanding achievements in science.


Julia Morse

Neil Shubin: Tracing fins to limbs

Since making headlines two years ago with a surprising 375-million-year-old fossil, the evolutionary biologist Neil Shubin continues to unlock the secrets of life’s formerly blurry transition from sea to land.


Hannah Hayes

Bringing Health Care to the Neighborhood

UChicago Comer Children's Hospital Mobile Healthcare Van is connecting the South Side with much-needed pediatricians.