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The Spring Issue of Tableau is Out Now
Learn about alumni making video games, music junior faculty, medical humanities, and more.
Curating Care: UChicago alum organizes Lifeblood, an international exhibition on Munch and medicine
September 9, 2025
Lining the walls of Oslo’s Munch Museum are an X-ray image of a bullet inside Edvard Munch’s hand, vials once used in syphili...
Norman Maclean biography uncovers personal stories of beloved UChicago author
The following was published in UChicago News on November 11, 2024.
The late Norman Maclean was many things: the most decorated teacher of undergr...
UChicago writer Ling Ma received 2024 MacArthur Fellowship
The following was published in UChicago News on October 1, 2024.
Ling Ma, AB’05, an award-winning University of Chicago fiction writer renowned...
Setting the Scene
The following was published in UChicago Magazine, Winter 2023 issue.
Growing up in Kankakee, Illinois, Rich Murray was a Star Wars fan—and not j...
UChicago Humanities Alum Earns Prestigious Mitchell Scholarship
The following was published in UChicago News on November 28, 2023.
By Andy Brown
How do we create a society that no longer sees prisons as a sol...
Humanities Scholar Receives Prestigious Donnelley Fellowship to Cambridge College
While Sam Lasman (PhD’20) works primarily in the Persian, Arabic, French, and Welsh languages, he dabbles in Latin, Irish, and old English. But it’s n...
Prominent Alumnus Inspires New UChicago Humanities Endowment in Islamic Studies
Renowned for educating scholars in Islamic studies, UChicago has luminary professors, such as Professor Emeritus Fred M. Donner and Professor Emerita ...
Building Ideas: Students Help Reimagine Core Texts in Renowned Alum Jenny Holzer's Innovative Artwork
The following was published in UChicago News on October 21, 2020.
by Max Witynski
For University of Chicago student Zahra Nasser, this October marks t...
UChicago Alum Tim Cassedy Receives the MLA First Book Award
Tim Cassedy (AM’05) is fascinated with the role language played at the turn of the 19th century, and how language served to identify and differentiate...