The Core

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.