Photo: Susan Kidwell

Fossil watch

Geoscientist Susan Kidwell finds decades of environmental history written in the remnants of dead seashells.

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.

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Cabaret comeback

Philip Bohlman’s musical journey over the past two decades has taken him to Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East.

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Her story

As late as 1963, American women earned only 59 cents for every dollar their male counterparts got.

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Next Generation

See the heartbeat

Cardiologist Roberto Lang watches a video that shows, in moving detail, the mitral valve of a potential surgical patient.

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Citations

A song in their heads

Young finches practice songs in their sleep.

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Original Source

The people’s literature

In 1930s Soviet Russia, children’s books and wartime propaganda had a lot in common.

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NEWS FROM THE UNIVERSITY


UCHIBLOGO

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IN THEIR OWN WORDS

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