The Core

Features

Portrait of a Painter
Wolf Kahn, AB’50, talks concretely about abstract art.
Terry Teachout
Where the Squirrels Are Cuter than Dante
University archivists squirrel away T-shirts where the end of the world began.
Carrie Golus, AB'91, AM'93
The Secret History of Butternut Playlot
Student research on Chicago’s neighborhoods
Hallowed Hall
Its school days may be numbered, but the Shoreland isn’t resting yet.

Departments

Bring It On

The veterans and beginners who make up the U of C cheer team have game.

Street Smarts

More relevant than ever, UCPIP matches public service-minded grads with local internships.

Editor's Note

All signs pointed to Chicago.

Marginalia

Seen & Heard

Bizarre Bazaar

Top Ten: Course Adoptions

Suited Up

Strongly Disagree/Strongly Agree

Go Ask Alumni

What to wear

Beyond The Quads

Jerusalem as Text

Middle East immersion

Roscoe Park 8 Takes Over

School in bloom

Eye on the Quads

FOTA Op

Planting the seeds of art

Try Not to Bite Your Partner

Getting defensive with Krav Maga

Eye on the Quads

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

Future Fillet

Jason Matheny envisions the day when beef and chicken grown in labs will help prevent heart attacks and protect the environment—if enough people swallow the concept.
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Make no little Quads

Chicago’s Hyde Park campus undergoes its biggest building boom in a century.
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MySpace’s tangled web

Behind the scenes at a Rupert Murdoch executive retreat—and behind the backs of the MySpace founders—Google and News Corp. hammered out a blockbuster deal.
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Martin makes a difference

Areva Martin, AB'84, an attorney and the mother of an autistic son, cofounded the Special Needs Network to help needy families with developmentally disabled children. Read more

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