The Core

Features

The Ambassadors
From Oslo to Cambodia, more Chicago alumni are striking out on Fulbright fellowships.
Susan A. Sarver
They've Got Game
Tom Kang, AB�88, and Alex Seropian, SB�91, take video gaming beyond swordplay and shoot-�em-up.
Benjamin Recchie, AB’03
Meteoric Metcalfs
In the Windy City and Big Apple, four students plunge into the working world.
Katherine E. Muhlenkamp and Dan Dry

Departments

Full Circle

Pro bono makes partner

The career path of Allegra Rich, AB’92, led her away from the law to nonprofit management—and then back to a new role at her original firm.

Photo Finish

An era ends at the Art Institute

After 36 years spent building the Art Institute’s photography collection, David Travis, AB’71, turns to new projects and passions.

Editor's Note

Memories have their own campus map.

Vox Populi

An alumnus brings Chicago-style learning to his high-school classroom.

Go Ask Alumni

Location, location, location.

Beyond The Quads

Ugandan Diaries

Blogging Uganda.

Eye on the Quads

Secret History

Writing the College's history

It's A Small World

Tiny physics.

Remembering One of the Greats

Filling big shoes.

Eye on the Quads

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.