Sept–Oct 2011
Volume 104, Number 1
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The cover: People have seen unidentified flying objects in all sorts of everyday phenomena. (Illustration by Gerard Dubois)
Features
Nadrian Seeman, SB'66, uses DNA not to study biology but as a building block for nano-tiny structures.
Librodome... Reg Egg, Igloo: As quickly as students have dreamed up pet names for Mansueto, they've adopted the futuristic library as their own.
Bright passageFor one alumna, Mansueto's opening recalls the change in Russian libraries since the Glasnost days.
Lost & foundAlzheimer's has erased the stories behind Lou Fourcher's (PhD'71) images, but his photographs of a demolished West Side neighborhood have stirred memories in former residents.
Science? Fiction?For 41 years Stanton Friedman, SB'55, SM'56, has traveled the world with a simple message: UFOs are real.
Editor's Notes
Bibbidi bobbidi booThe Magazine's Cinderella story.
Letters
Readers sound offAlumni and friends write on climate change, breast-feeding, and last issue's letters about immigration.
On the Agenda
Complexity, change, and educational challengesPresident Robert J. Zimmer: The University makes some departures rooted in its enduring values.
Course Work
Counter cultureAmid a gathering storm, students grapple with 1960s turbulence.
Marketplace of Ideas
Nuclear futureWhere's the profit motive to keep nuclear power plants safe?
Alumni Essay
Picture the possibilitiesBefore her daughter arrived, a baby photo from the orphanage was the only thing the author had.
Lite of the Mind
Covering the campusWhat would a UChicago-themed New Yorker look like?
UChicago Journal
Art housePhilip Schiller, AB'55, built one of the country's most comprehensive collections.
Booth schoolVolunteer projectionists at Doc Films try to keep an old technology from flickering out.
Faculty Research: CitationsUndocumented college graduates, growing limbs from fish DNA, the American flag's effect on votes, and alcohol's stress content.
Interview: Coffee scienceCell biologist Stephanie Levi's Night Labs series makes science accessible.
Culture waresTheaster Gates hopes to transform a neighborhood through art.
Fig. 1: Decision timeHow the sense of connection to a "future self" affects consumer choices.
For the Record: University newsA Becker-Friedman merger, new campus dining options, and developments in the 53rd Street development.
William Rainey Harper's Index: Student e-mail list membersAre there more Federalists, Objectivists, or zombie fighters?
Healing vesselAmy Lehman envisions treating patients from isolated African villages aboard a hospital boat.
On the up and upEconomist Bruce Meyer studies the myth of the middle-class squeeze.
Original Source: Fighting fairA look back at a more civil discourse, on a University-broadcast radio forerunner to Sunday morning talk shows.
Shards unseenArchaeologist Hannah Chazin searches for late Bronze Age artifacts in Armenia.
Smart trainsJapan's claustrophobic commuter rail system operates with human and technological precision.
Triple transplantIn a rare procedure, UChicago doctors give a patient a new heart, liver, and kidney.
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