The Core

Features

Summer in the City
From Lincoln Park to Marquette Park, Summer Links interns made a difference in Chicago’s neighborhoods.
Charlotte Robinson
In Fermi’s Footsteps
Three Chicago undergraduates explored some of science’s most pressing questions as summer interns at Argonne National Laboratory.
Michelle Caswell
Seeds of Change
An alumnus departs Wall Street to witness the microfinance revolution firsthand, and discovers his ancestral homeland in transition.
Vivek Taparia, AB’03

Departments

Geeking Out

Success was in the cards for Chez Geek, a send-up of the lives of College students living off campus.

Inspiration sometimes comes from unexpected places. Just ask Jon Darbro, AB’97, creator of the award-winning card game Chez Geek. Darbro and two roommates were sipping Shiraz in their 53rd and Woodlawn apartment when it struck them that their communal life could make for a fun card game.

Goin' West

Newly installed Wallace Stegner Fellow Stephanie Soileau, AB’98, aims to put post-Katrina Louisiana on the literary map.

Not so long ago, Stephanie Soileau, AB’98, was beginning to wonder if she should give up on a career in writing.

Soileau, whose path led her from Cajun roots in southern Louisiana to the University of Chicago, and later to the prestigious Iowa Creative Writer’s Workshop, was teaching classes at multiple colleges in Chicago and trying to write a novel in the crannies of her spare time. It was a losing battle.

Editor's Note

As Odyssey Scholarships take root, a summer preparatory program will blossom alongside them.

Vox Populi

A campus tour with her daughters reminds an alumna why she chose the College.

Go Ask Alumni

We asked alumni to give their answers in the form of a question.

Beyond The Quads

Head of the Class

Chicago UTEP students hit the classroom.

Eye on the Quads

Science Beyond Boundaries

Science at the crossroads.

Supporting students as they are

A new dean of students settles in.

Summer Stock

University Theater reaches out.

The University of Chicago Magazine has been published continuously since 1907; here’s the latest bimonthly issue:

True grit

In a heated showdown with Western cattlemen, Idaho environmentalist Jon Marvel, AB’72, tries to outlaw livestock grazing on public lands.

Eye robot

Chicago geophysical scientist Patrick McGuire, AB’89, develops artificial-intelligence technology to turn astronauts into “cyborg astrobiologists.”

A nurse’s shift

Former academic Theresa Brown, AB’87, PhD’94, finds personal fulfillment—and a different set of intellectual problems—amid health-care shortfalls and patients who face matters of life and death.

A novel approach

Presumed dead by the Alumni Association, Alan M. Charlens, SB’58, PhD’63 shares some life benchmarks, told through four writers’ lenses.

Are you ready for some broomball?

In early February students from Crown and Alper houses converged on the ice rink for a match-up in intramural broomball, a favorite of College students since the rink’s 2002 construction.