On the Quads
Greg Nance, ’11, has been named a 2010 Truman Scholar, a $30,000 prize he plans to use toward a master’s degree in education or nonprofit management. A political-science major, Nance is the cofounder of Moneythink, which promotes financial literacy in Chicago high schools.
Tuition will go up 4.2 percent for the 2010–11 academic year, raising the total cost for undergraduate education to $53,244. Need- or merit-based financial aid reduces that cost for about 60 percent of Chicago students.
Editors-in-chief Josh Lerner, ’12, and Jeremy Rozansky, ’12, have breathed new life into the conservative quarterly Counterpoint, reviving the short-lived journal John Podhoretz, AB’82, and Tod Lindberg, AB’82, founded in the 1970s. The first issue is available at counterpoint.uchicago.edu.
In February the University of Chicago’s team won the Harvard National Model United Nations competition, the largest event of its kind. Students act as delegates to the United Nations, representing countries and political organizations, debating issues such as human rights and terrorism. Most of Chicago’s participants represented China, and 23 of the 28 delegates won individual awards.