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APRIL 1997

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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE

April 1997


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VOLUME 89, NUMBER 4 APRIL 1997

COVER: One of five operating rooms in the U of C's new Duchossois Center for Advanced Medicine gets put to use by Grant Miller, assistant professor of clinical surgery, and surgery resident Raj Patel. Photograph by Dan Dry.


  • Just what the doctors ordered
    The Duchossois Center for Advanced Medicine is the University's newest and biggest building. It's also trying to be its best.
    MARY RUTH YOE

  • At the top of his game
    Computer and math pioneer Larry Wos, AB'50, SM'54, won by learning how to beat the odds.
    TIM OBERMILLER

  • Reel scholarship
    Film has become the medium of 20th-century storytelling. At the U of C, it's now the stuff of academic study.
    JOHN EASTON

  • Northern exposure
    As the top ranger at Voyageurs National Park, Barbara West, AB'70, finds conflicts between the park and its Minnesota neighbors regularly heat things up.
    DEBRA SHORE

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