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Your April/04 University of Chicago Magazine is in the mail. It's also online at: http://magazine.uchicago.edu.

Here's a sampling from the APRIL issue: * FATHER OF THE GRID * WHERE THE ACTION WAS * PICTURE PERFECT TODAY @ UChiBLOGo * FAITH AND EGGS NEWS FROM CHICAGO * PILLAR OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION MOURNED * CONFERENCE DISCUSSES DEMOCRACY IN MEXICO RESEARCH AT CHICAGO * GOING OUT ON A LIMB * DON'T HOLD BACK FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ALUMNI ASSOCIATION * ALUMNI WEEKEND IS FOR YOU * HERE'S TO ALUMNI HOUSE--YOUR HOME ON CAMPUS * TRAVEL IN MIND FOR SUMMER & FALL * LOVE'S GENTLE SPRING... YOUR CHICAGO CONNECTIONS ABOUT CHICAGO.EDU SUBSCRIPTION TO THE eBULLETIN

Here's a sampling from the APRIL issue:

* FATHER OF THE GRID
Chicago computer scientist Ian Foster has developed the software to take shared computing to a global level: http://magazine.uchicago.edu/0404/features/index.shtml

* WHERE THE ACTION WAS
On Iowa's Meskwaki Settlement, a group of Chicago anthropology students went beyond observation and tried to help their research subjects. Fifty-six years later, action anthropology is the stuff of footnotes--and Meskwaki memory:
http://magazine.uchicago.edu/0404/features/action.shtml

* PICTURE PERFECT
See the winners of the Magazine's Alumni Photography Contest--plus a Web-only slideshow of all the finalists: http://magazine.uchicago.edu/0404/features/picture.shtml

TODAY @ UChiBLOGo

* FAITH AND EGGS
The Magazine's Web log visits Rockefeller Chapel ats Easter: http://magazine.uchicago.edu/UChiBLOGo/

NEWS FROM CHICAGO

* PILLAR OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION MOURNED
A memorial service for Karl Joachim Weintraub, AB'49, AM'52, PhD'57, one of the University's most celebrated teachers, will be held April 30. Weintraub, who died March 25, began teaching at Chicago in 1954 as an intern in the College's Western Civilization program--a program with which he became synonymous. For more information or to hear a tape of Weintraub's 1984 Ryerson lecture, go to http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/04/040326.weintraub.shtml

* CONFERENCE DISCUSSES DEMOCRACY IN MEXICO
At the April 23-24 International Colloquium: Consolidating Democracy in Mexico leading policy-makers and scholars will debate strategies for completing Mexico's transition from electoral to fully representative democracy. Mexico's second-highest ranking official, Secretary of Government Santiago Creel, will deliver the keynote address. For more information: http://chicagosociety.uchicago.edu/mexico

RESEARCH AT CHICAGO

* GOING OUT ON A LIMB
A 365-million-year-old fossil--an arm bone that bridges the gap between fish fins and amphibian limbs--may help scientists understand how land-living animals evolved from sea creatures. Chicago paleontologists Neil Shubin and Michael Coates were part of the three-man team reporting the find in the April 2 Science: http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/04/040402.shubin.shtml

* DON'T HOLD BACK
In 1996 the Chicago Public Schools began a controversial policy of retaining low-performing third-, sixth-, and eighth-graders. Two new studies by the University's Consortium on Chicago School Research show that the policy doesn't raise test scores and increases eighth-grade dropout rates: http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/04/040407.retention.shtml

FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

* ALUMNI WEEKEND IS FOR YOU
All alumni are invited to attend the parties, receptions, fairs, festivals, classes, ceremonies, and concerts of Alumni Weekend, June 3-6. Plus, special reunions and gatherings will be held for College classes ending in 4 or 9, the Class of 2003, the Harris School, the Graham School, the School of Social Service Administration, the Biological Sciences Division and the Pritzker School of Medicine, and the Laboratory Schools, as well as graduate alumni in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Meanwhile the Women's Athletics Association commemorates its 100th anniversary and Rockefeller Chapel its 75th, not to mention the 57th Street Art Fair and the Hyde Park-University of Chicago Arts Fest. Best of all, it's the grand opening of the University's new Alumni House. There's no better weekend to visit Hyde Park.

Many events are free, but most require registration. To find out more and to register online go to: http://alumnireunion.uchicago.edu

* HERE'S TO ALUMNI HOUSE--YOUR HOME ON CAMPUS
Join President Don M. Randel in a toast to Chicago's new Alumni House. The Grand Opening celebration takes place the first night of Alumni Weekend, Thursday, June 3, from 5 until 7 p.m. Alumni and friends can tour the house, meet members of the Alumni Board--the group behind the building--and cheer the establishment of the first permanent alumni home on campus. The event is free and open to all, and attendees will receive a commemorative gift. For an inside view of the house and more on the opening celebration, go to: http://www.alumni.uchicago.edu/aa-house.html

* TRAVEL IN MIND FOR SUMMER & FALL
There's still time to check your vacation calendar against the list of alumni travel offerings for 2004 and choose a faculty-led study trip to suit your interests. Summer and fall trips to Oxford, Greenland and the Canadian Arctic, the Baltic countries, southern Spain, and Big Bend National Park--as well as a family trip to Costa Rica and a Mediterranean cruise--beckon you. http://www.alumni.uchicago.edu/study.html

* LOVE'S GENTLE SPRING...
...doth always fresh remain, but the Magazine's summer special won't last forever. For its June issue only the Magazine is offering a discount to alumni readers--$25 for a personal ad of up to 25 words (your e-mail address counts as one word). Deadline is May 1. For more information call 773/702-2163 or e-mail uchicago-magazine@uchicago.edu.

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