Return on principles
David Booth, MBA’71, built his investment career applying mentor Eugene Fama’s efficient-market research. Now he’s sharing the dividends.
Color lines
After a brief segregated past, the U of C emerged as one of the few places to welcome African Americans to its academic ranks.
Studs: A lifetime of listening
Raconteur Studs Terkel had an ear for other people’s stories.
Glimpses
Marc Pollick, AB’75, gave up a 17-year career in Holocaust studies when he decided he could do more good by encouraging philanthropy than by teaching about genocide.
On the ground
Aid worker Scott Braunschweig fights poverty in some of the world’s most destitute countries.Features »
Behind every president…
…there’s a local angle. In assembling his White House team, Barack Obama has chosen a fair share of experts and advisers with ties to Chicago.
Fossil watch
Susan Kidwell likes to say that her whole career—mostly spent on the faculty of Chicago’s geophysical-sciences department—has been one long digression.
Why did the vampire cross the road?*
Scott Sherman doesn’t try too hard to define his career—and that’s the way he likes it.
Peeps into our pages
Hopping on the Peeps diorama-contest bandwagon, the Magazine joins such journalistic worthies as the St. Paul Pioneer Press, the Washington Post, and the Chicago Tribune.NEWS FROM THE UNIVERSITY
