Alumnus Justin Kern’s photographs of the quadrangles reveal a place that’s at once familiar and strange. By Lydialyle Gibson

Return to story.

With the doors open to new investments, the University plans its first faculty expansion in four decades. By Elizabeth Station

Return to story.

The Constitution was “proslavery in its politics, in its economics, and its law.” The result, an alumnus argues in a new book, was A Slaveholders’ Union. By George William Van Cleve, AB’73

Return to story.

Economist Gary Becker returned to Chicago because “I knew I would be challenged by the faculty, by the students.” He met the challenge. By Burke Frank, ’11, and Asher Klein, ’11

Return to story.

From asbestos to cell phones, Devra Lee Davis warns of potential public-health crises. By Ruth E. Kott, AM’07

Return to story.