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FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2002
News from the University of Chicago Magazine

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Your June/02 University of Chicago Magazine is in the mail. It's also online
at: http://www.alumni.uchicago.edu/magazine

Here's a sampling from the June issue:

COVER STORY >>
The end of consulting as we know it?

ALSO IN THE JUNE MAGAZINE >>
Chicago: campus of the big ideas
2nd annual future alumni essay winner

NEWS FROM CHICAGO >>
Pritzker family donates $30 million to University
Award-winning teachers: Eight graduate faculty honored

RESEARCH AT CHICAGO >>
Surviving a mass extinction doesn't guarantee...survival
Update from the genetic twilight zone

NEWS FROM THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION >>
Scenes from Reunion 2002
Holiday on Ice: Join a January alumni trip to Antarctica


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COVER STORY

THE END OF CONSULTING AS WE KNOW IT?
Long the darling of job-hunting students and strategy-seeking clients, management consulting deals with upheaval of its own. http://www.alumni.uchicago.edu/magazine/0206/features/index.htm

ALSO IN THE MAGAZINE
CHICAGO: CAMPUS OF THE BIG IDEAS
The launch of the Chicago Initiative, the University's $2 billion fund-raising effort, focused on Chicago's intellectual initiatives. http://www.alumni.uchicago.edu/magazine/0206/features/campus.html
YOU GO GIRL!
The winner of the Magazine's second annual future alumni essay contest writes about her friends, a group of girls who just want her to have fun. http://www.alumni.uchicago.edu/magazine/0206/features/girl.html

NEWS FROM CHICAGO

PRITZKER FAMILY DONATES $30 MILLION TO UNIVERSITY
Making the largest single gift in the University's history, the Pritzker family of Chicago is donating $30 million to support the Biological Sciences Division and the Pritzker School of Medicine. Plans call for the gift to be used to recruit clusters of outstanding new faculty, focusing on the most promising areas of research and treatment. http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/02/020605.pritzker.shtml

AWARD-WINNING TEACHERS: EIGHT GRADUATE FACULTY HONORED
A philosopher, a mathematician, a historian, a finance expert, and a law professor were among the eight faculty members who received teaching awards this spring: http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/020606/2002gta-intro.shtml


RESEARCH AT CHICAGO
SURVIVING A MASS EXTINCTION DOESN'T ENSURE...SURVIVAL
A significant number of organisms that survived Earth's five greatest mass extinctions went on to lose the evolutionary game. So says a new study by Chicago's David Jablonski, citing evidence from paleontological literature and his own work on the aftermath of mass extinction at the end of the Mesozoic Era.
http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/02/020610.jablonski.shtml

UPDATE FROM THE GENETIC TWILIGHT ZONE
What is the genetic basis for evolutionary change? What forces cause different species to evolve? Chicago evolutionary biologist Chung-i Wu believes that natural selection plays a major role even at the genetic level and, in competitive environments, actually speeds up.
http://www.alumni.uchicago.edu/magazine/0206/research/invest-zone.html


NEWS FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

SCENES FROM REUNION 2002
More than 1,900 alumni and friends from the College, the Biological Sciences and Physical Sciences Divisions, the School of Social Service Administration, and the Laboratory Schools returned to the quads for Reunion May 31-June 2. Classes from the 5th to the 65th attended in record -breaking numbers. From trolley tours to Uncommon Core classes to a Party on the Plaisance, the weekend celebrated Chicago and its alumni. To see photos:
http://www.alumni.uchicago.edu/reunion

Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, Kennedy Library Director Deborah Leff, and news commentator Ray Suarez were among alumni honored during Reunion. To read about all the 2002 Alumni Award winners and to find out how you can make a nomination, go to:
http://www.alumni.uchicago.edu/gateway/awards.html

HOLIDAY ON ICE: JOIN A JANUARY ALUMNI TRIP TO ANTARCTICA
Check out the itinerary for the Alumni Association's January 12-27, 2003, cruise to Antarctica and the Falkland Islands. A Chicago alumni only Web site also lets you take a virtual tour of the ship, learn about side trips, and download a reservation form. Go to:
http://uchicago.lifelonglearning.biz


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