Learn how Assistant Professor of Music Paula Clare Harper’s (AB’10) recent book on Taylor Swift came together, challenges of studying music on the internet, her favorite version of “All Too Well,” and more: mag.uchicago.edu/paulaharper

A selection of new books by alumni. https://mag.uchicago.edu/university-news/releases-61

Marilu Henner, EX’74, is our Summer/25 UChicagoan. Read the full Q&A with the actor, author, and possessor of HSAM (highly superior autobiographical memory): https://mag.uchicago.edu/arts-humanities/marilu-henner-ex74

The University of Chicago Magazine hired its first Metcalf intern in 1997, the year the program started. Once the Magazine began hiring two interns, they got a standard practice assignment: interview each other. Meet our summer 2025 interns: mag.uchicago.edu/university-n...

What expands under pressure and contracts when heated? Groundbreaking materials discovered by Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering researchers defy the conventional laws of thermodynamics. https://bit.ly/46eMn78

Irwin Keller, EX’85, JD’88, wasn’t sure whether his dreams of his late mother were a divine message or just wishful thinking. Read his reflections on skepticism and faith. mag.uchicago.edu/university-n...

As book bans spread nationwide, a professor, an author, and the UChicago library system defend the freedom to read. mag.uchicago.edu/university-n...

In April UChicago Alumni and The Chicago Forum for Free Inquiry and Expression cohosted “Uninhibited Debate: How UChicago Shaped Free Expression Discourse.” Panelists addressed open discourse in classrooms, the legacy of the Chicago Principles, and more mag.uchicago.edu/university-n...

With plenty of references to Beyoncé and other Black women in pop culture, Daryl Fairweather’s (AM’12, PhD’14) new book, Hate the Game, discusses how game theory plays into everyday lives, offering economics-rooted insights into navigating careers and finances. mag.uchicago.edu/economics-bu...

Mathematician Mina Rees, PhD’31, worked behind the scenes to develop the first federal agency dedicated to funding scientific research in peacetime. Her policies have characterized federal science funding into the 21st century. mag.uchicago.edu/university-n... @uchicagoalumni.bsky.social

After four years of textbooks and problem sets, molecular engineering students test their skills out on real world engineering problems. They might not be able to solve the problems in two quarters, but what matters is how they approach the challenge. mag.uchicago.edu/science-medi...

With two College alumni singers, an editor at the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists behind the drums, and a UChicago linguistics professor on the bass, Do the Needful pays tribute to classic Bollywood. mag.uchicago.edu/arts-humanit...

The brains of people who stay sharp-witted in their 80s and 90s might hold clues to healthy aging for the rest of us. Emily Rogalski of UChicago is studying these "superagers" at the @haarccenter.bsky.social. I spoke with her for @uchicagomag.bsky.social mag.uchicago.edu/science-medi...

Raised by artists, Daisy Rockwell, AB’91, AM’98, PhD’98, chose UChicago because at the time it didn’t have a major focus on the creative arts. She studied Hindi for the first time, then Tamil and Sanskrit. Today she’s an artist, scholar, and translator mag.uchicago.edu/arts-humanit...

By design: In the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering’s capstone course, fourth-year students put their skills to the test. mag.uchicago.edu/science-medi... @uchicagomag.bsky.social @uchicagopme.bsky.social

On this day 100 years ago, John T. Scopes, EX’31, was put on trial for teaching evolution in a Tennessee classroom. Read about the UChicagoans involved in the trial, including the defendant himself: mag.uchicago.edu/law-policy-s... @uchicagoalumni.bsky.social

Our Summer/25 issue is here! Discover new materials that defy physics, a Bollywood cover band, superagers, the art of translation, the fight against book bans, and more. mag.uchicago.edu/issue/summer25

Web exclusive: What do UChicago mathematicians think of the Apple TV+ show Prime Target? We asked, so you don’t have to. mag.uchicago.edu/university-n...

Scientists have made new measurements of moon rocks from the Apollo missions to shed light on the origins and age of the moon. mag.uchicago.edu/science-medi...

“What is it like to learn? It is the strained eyes from reading in the dark, yes, but it is also afflictions of the more metaphorical sort.” Read an essay by Shiloh Miller, Class of 2026: mag.uchicago.edu/university-n...

Web exclusive: “I began the practice of, the last thing before going to bed every night, putting down the two things that I’d learned in the course of the day into a sentence,” says retired English professor David Shields, AM’75, PhD’82. mag.uchicago.edu/arts-humanit...

Harris Public Policy assistant professor Eyal Frank is quantifying the costs of biodiversity loss. He recently showed that the decline of bat populations in North America has contributed to a rise in infant mortality. mag.uchicago.edu/law-policy-s...

Nicholas Epley is our Spring/25 UChicagoan. Read our Q&A with the Chicago Booth behavioral science professor and scholar of social cognition: mag.uchicago.edu/university-n...

For decades, when an oil well stopped producing, it was simply left behind. Over time these wells break down, releasing radioactive and carcinogenic chemicals. Environmental attorney Adam Peltz, AB’05, works to identify and plug these orphaned wells. mag.uchicago.edu/law-policy-s...

For 40 years UChicago’s MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics has built a bridge between clinical practice and ethical inquiry. Learn about the center’s history and the ethical challenges that are top of mind for the center today. mag.uchicago.edu/university-n...

Web exclusive: UChicago’s annual anime and video game convention, UChi-Con, is a daylong event with workshops, a costume competition, live music, art vendors, and lectures—including one by computer scientist Ben Zhao on his work protecting visual artists from generative AI. mag.uchicago.edu/uchi-con

Check out some highlights of the 21st annual UChi-Con, organized by the University of Chicago Japanese Animation Society: mag.uchicago.edu/university-n...

Many millennials aren’t sure about having children. A new book examines why. Read more about “What Are Children For? On Ambivalence and Choice” by Anastasia Berg, AM’13, PhD’17, and Rachel Wiseman, AB’12. mag.uchicago.edu/law-policy-s...

One hundred years ago John T. Scopes was put on trial for teaching evolution in a Tennessee classroom. Nearly forgotten is the role of a half dozen UChicago professors and alumni in the trial—including the protagonist himself, John Thomas Scopes, EX’31. mag.uchicago.edu/law-policy-s...

“Is life a game? You can take this question either as literal or figurative, structural or provocative. There is no wrong answer, though any answer has enormous consequences.” Read an excerpt from Patrick Jagoda’s 2024 Aims of Education address. mag.uchicago.edu/university-n...

“There is something unifying about graffiti. It binds people across time. You might not know when a particular message was left, or by whom, but you know that someone sat where you sat, saw the wall that you see,” writes Shiloh Miller, Class of 2026. mag.uchicago.edu/graffiti

The Hyde Park Cook Book, one of the items in the 1970 yearBox, “could perhaps be more accurately titled ‘a handbook of useful observations for an inept cook, collected from an indefinite number [of] Hyde Park student[s] and residents.’”--Leslie Strauss Travis, AB’73 mag.uchicago.edu/university-n...

UChicago College students of the ’70s had their own academic rituals, larger-than-life professors, and career-altering courses. And they were the first patrons of the Reg. Read about academics in the 1970s at mag.uchicago.edu/1970s

Built in 1960 as a men’s dorm, Pierce Tower was a lawless land in the ’70s. Read about the epic water fights, tennis ball cannons, beds in elevators, and more. mag.uchicago.edu/1970s

The storied group Students for Violent Non-Action was started in reaction to the political and cultural upheaval of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Read about how the group helped define student culture at the College: mag.uchicago.edu/1970s Plus, a recipe for SNVA punch.

RADICAL BROWN by Margaret Beale Spencer and Nancy E. Dowd was included on a @uchicagomag.bsky.social list of recent books by University of Chicago faculty members. Learn more about this title and see the list here: https://bit.ly/42ASwJh

Yearbooks are SO 1960. Introducing the yearBox. The yearBox held a cookbook; a board game; an inflatable bust of University president Edward Levi, LAB’28, PhB’32, JD’35; a pocket guide to Hyde Park bars; and more. Take a closer look at mag.uchicago.edu/yearbox

Maybe you’ve heard tell of the Lascivious Costume Ball—or maybe you were there yourself. Find out if the rumors are true at mag.uchicago.edu/1970s

This week we’re sharing our oral history of College life in the 1970s. First up: Big Ed, the world’s largest kazoo. When varsity football returned to UChicago, there were protests. There was also a new centerpiece of halftime shows: Big Ed and the kazoo marching band. mag.uchicago.edu/1970s

Big Ed, the 15-foot-long and couple-hundred-pound kazoo, trundles along in the 1974 reunion parade. Named after UChicago president (1968–75) Edward Levi, LAB’28, PhB’32, JD’35, Big Ed was the centerpiece of halftime shows for the newly reinstated varsity football program. Photo: Leslie Travis, AB’73

In four new books, UChicago faculty explore the origins of life, reread Brown v. Board of Education, bust myths about the Renaissance, and think differently about land ownership. mag.uchicago.edu/university-n...

Many of us take refrigeration for granted. How often do we stop and think about the impacts of this relatively new technology? In her new book, Frostbite, journalist Nicola Twilley, AM’01, examines how refrigeration has changed our relationship to food. mag.uchicago.edu/twilley

“I walked into the field. It was stunning. You see the story made flesh.” Read how literary scholar David Shields, AM’75, PhD’82, came to rediscover dozens of forgotten crops and preserve Southern culinary heritage. mag.uchicago.edu/arts-humanit...

The Spring/25 issue of The Core is here, with an oral history of College life in the 1970s you won’t want to miss. Plus, rock climbing, alumni turned UChicago faculty, cosplay, the 2024 Aims of Education address, and more. mag.uchicago.edu/issue/spring...

A nice shout-out to my new book, Land Power, in the new issue of UChicago Magazine. @uchicagomag.bsky.social

Our Spring/25 issue is now online! Read about heritage crops, medical ethics, UChicagoans involved in the Scopes “Monkey Trial,” a new book about millennial angst over having children, campus graffiti, orphaned oil wells, refrigeration, and much more. mag.uchicago.edu/issue/spring25

It's a proud day for us. @chicagomanual.bsky.social

“It’s like going to a strength and conditioning coach,” says Marius Aleksa, AB’12, of his work as mental skills coach for the Miami Marlins. Read about Aleksa’s path from varsity swimming at UChicago to the dugout: mag.uchicago.edu/university-n...

San Francisco has long been a favorite film setting. On a gray Saturday morning, Bay Area alumni visited locations around the city where famous movies were shot. Take in the sights yourself: mag.uchicago.edu/arts-humanit...

A new undergraduate minor responds to declining public trust in science. Read about the new Science Communication and Public Discourse program: mag.uchicago.edu/arts-humanit...