Two views of Senegal
In 2014 students enrolled in the African Civilizations sequence at the University of Chicago’s Center in Paris had a rare opportunity to travel to Africa. Their weeklong trip to Senegal—an optional...
View ArticleField of Dreams
As a child growing up in Brookline, Massachusetts—the first American-born son of Filipino immigrants—Matthew Briones was obsessed with baseball. He spent countless hours in his small backyard, throwing...
View ArticleWhat do you know?
“Let’s start with a little experiment that is somewhat trite,” says Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer, the Helen A. Regenstein Distinguished Service Professor in Classics. “Just for funsies.”Tags: Stevanovich...
View ArticleHow the job search has changed since 2008
When the economy was booming, says career coach Elatia Abate, AB’99, MBA’08, it was relatively easy to get a job. You put together a good résumé. You found a promising job online and applied for it....
View ArticlePeripheral vision
In the summer of 1962, Danny Lyon, age 20, packed a Nikon Reflex and a Leica camera into an army bag and hitchhiked south on Route 66, because that was “the road Jack Kerouac used,” he wrote in...
View ArticleLegal advice
The Trayvon Martin case was the catalyst. “I was so anguished about it,” says Robyn McCoy, AB’96. “I’m always lecturing my clients, telling them, look ... if you just follow the right path, then...
View ArticleHow to be a superconnector
Last month the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation hosted GiveGetWin’s summer bootcamp, a free two-week program for aspiring entrepreneurs. (GiveGetWin is like Groupon, but it’s run by...
View ArticleMeet the queen of Chicago’s St. Patrick’s Day parade
This Saturday, March 11, Chicago will celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with a parade downtown, a tradition since 1955. Always held the Saturday before St. Patrick’s Day, the parade begins at Balbo and...
View ArticleThe future of science fiction is not American
Ada Palmer, assistant professor of history, writes two kinds of books. In the scholarly category she’s published Reading Lucretius in the Renaissance (Harvard University Press, 2014), about how...
View ArticleLingua franca
What’s the French word for yes?Oui, obviously, you might think, if you took French in high school or college. Or even if you did not.That’s correct. But it’s not necessarily what a native speaker would...
View ArticleHow to get your $$$ in order before you turn 30
All the personal finance advice you need would fit on a 3-by-5 card, Harold Pollack quipped in a 2013 interview. Immediately people wanted to know: Where’s the card?So Pollack, the Helen Ross Professor...
View ArticleSix things you never learned in French class
This spring quarter I found myself back in Cobb Hall, more than 25 years after I graduated, sitting in on French 101. Most of the students in the class hadn’t even been born then.It was humbling. For...
View ArticleWhat do we want to know this year?
Socrates had questions: What is virtue? What is the good? What is justice? Freud had questions: What is happiness? Can humans be happy?And so do the undergraduates majoring in fundamentals: issues and...
View ArticleRe-envisioning the Renaissance
When you walk into the exhibit Tensions in Renaissance Cities, the first display case you see is on Mexico City.At the time Mexico City was known as the “Rome and Athens of the New World,” according to...
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