The Core

Features

Living Legacy
What does a great 21st-century general education look like? Glimpses into two Core classrooms reveal a tradition scrutinized, contested, fine-tuned - and strong.
Jerome Theraud, AM'02
Doc of Ages
On its 75th (or is it 67th) anniversary, the venerable student film society looks back on an idiosyncratic history.
Charlotte Robinson
Tour de Force
The University of Chicago Center in Paris puts the College's oldest study-abroad program in a new academic neighbourhood.
Mary Ruth Yoe & Dan Dry

Departments

Big Shoulders, Helping Hand

Bridget Wild's efforts to bring the Special Olympics to the Midway last autumn were just one highlight in for years of service to the city of Chicago.

C'est Si Bon Bon

Through creative marketing and serendipity, Charlene Dupray traded her business suits for a wacky hatand the title "Charlene the Bon Bon Queen."

Editor's Note

At the heart of the University is a College like none other.

Vox Populi

A student examines her changing feelings toward the homeless.

Go Ask Alumni

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

Beyond The Quads

Oxford and Upward

The College goes to Oxford.

Eye on the Quads

Ocean's Informants

Oceanic fossils shed light on climate change.

Transcripts: Leaping from the 18th Century to the 21st

Transcripts go high-tech.

Secret History

Athletics associations age gracefully.

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.