The Core

Features

Off to the Races
Four politically energized undergrads have a super Tuesday.
Carrie Golus
Practice Makes Perfect
As part of their training, public-policy majors get out of the library and into Chicago neighborhoods.
Jerome Tharaud, AB’02
Portraits of the Artists
For three students in the College - a director, singer, and visual artist - the creative life is a good.
Laura Demanski, AM'94

Departments

From Maroon to Marine

An alumnus serves.

Justin Palmer, AB’04, supported the United States–led invasion of Iraq in 2003 from its beginning. As a columnist for the Chicago Maroon, he was vocal about this support, but he was dissatisfied with merely being a pundit on the sidelines.

Diamond Anniversary

A nostalgic Japanese homecoming.

Back in October of 1910, the Chicago Daily Tribune reported the arrival of the University of Chicago baseball team in Japan to play Waseda University: “...twelve husky and hearty looking American lads…arrived on the N.Y.K. liner Kamakura Maru after a pleasant voyage of sixteen days” (“Maroons Received with College Yell,” Chicago Daily Tribune, Oct. 28, 1910, p. 11). The visit kicked off a series of games that continued through 1936.

Editor's Note

More than ever, the arts are in the spotlight at the College. But what makes an artist a Chicago artist?.

Vox Populi

A bracing winter ritual strengthens the ties that bind Dodd-Mead residents together.

Go Ask Alumni

We asked alumni who would get their personal Quantrell Award and why.

Beyond The Quads

Project Help

Students help families access services to stay healthy.

Fair Trade

A welcome Austrian invasion.

Dinosaur Discoverer

Dinosaurs debut.

Eye on the Quads

Irrefutable Fun

Bullish on debate.

Broadened Horizons

Chicago to Oxford via Bolivia.

The Searchers

Scav Hunt on-screen.

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.