Long exposure

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

Opportunity knocks

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

The price of independence

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.

A rational choice

Economist Gary Becker returned to Chicago because “I knew I would be challenged by the faculty, by the students.” He met the challenge.

Roaming crusader

From asbestos to cell phones, Devra Lee Davis warns of potential public-health crises.