Blog Profile / UChiblogo
| URL : | http://uchiblogo.uchicago.edu/ | |
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| Filed Under: | United States / Chicago | |
| Posts on Regator: | 411 | |
| Posts / Week: | 2 | |
| Archived Since: | June 16, 2009 | |
Blog Post Archive
Connecting with veterans
Art initiates life in a discussion about life after war, prompted by the Lyric Opera’s new show, Hercules.
By Asher Klein, '11
A propos of the Lyric Opera’s new production of Handel’s Hercules, set in the modern day in what might beShow More Summary
Free to choose
By Elizabeth Station
After voting in Egypt's March 19 referendum, Mahmoud Khairy, a student at Cairo University who spent a quarter at Chicago, sent this update:
I just came now from voting on the constitutional amendments. I really don't know how to describe it. Show More Summary
A room with a view
Sunsets, fireworks, Obama on the Midway—you can see it all from the top of UChicago’s newest residence hall.
By Elizabeth Station
Just over a year ago, when the South Campus Residence Hall opened, campus officials touted the building’s...Show More Summary
Remembering Mr. Broder
A journalist shares memories of her mentor, David Broder, AB’47, AM’51.
By Suzannah Gonzales, AB’98
David Broder, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who died March 9, has been called the dean of the Washington press corps who set the standard for political reporting. Show More Summary
This won’t hurt a bit
Ultramodern technology finds a place at the Oriental Institute. By Benjamin Recchie, AB’03 I confess that when I was told about a special tour of the Oriental Institute involving “death rays” and ancient artifacts, arranged by William...Show More Summary
Cat in the belfry
Modo the cat livens up Rockefeller Chapel.
By Rhonda L. Smith
One Tuesday evening last fall, a couple of students showed up at Rockefeller Memorial Chapel just as a restorative yoga class was about to begin. The instructor welcomed them and directed them to take blankets and sit down. Show More Summary
Flying circus
An evening with the spectacular Le Vorris & Vox. By Asher Klein, '11 Some students tutor high schoolers. Some of us write for the newspaper. Some play with fire, stand on their friends' shoulders, and dance suspended in air on two long...Show More Summary
Consonant craving
Georgian folk songs resound at Wednesday's Div School lunch
By Lydialyle Gibson
"It's very Georgian to have singing as part of the feast," Clayton Parr said as he and fellow members of Ensemble Alioni stood up from their meals—and the rest of the room dug into fruit-and-cream desserts—to begin their performance at last Wednesday's Div School lunch. Show More Summary
Pencil pusher
An illustration of how one busy mom distracted her son—and made an artist out of him.
By Carrie Golus, AB'91, AM'93
When Core editor Laura Demanski and I saw Laura Shaeffer’s sketchbook—full of tender, but unsentimental drawings of her...Show More Summary
The smartest stylist in Chicago
Not unlike the editor he planned to become, Jason Berg spends his days trimming and adding color.
Soon after I walk into Salon Fete in Lincoln Park, Jason Berg, AB'04, sits me in his chair. We talk highlights (let's go warmer, we decide),...Show More Summary
Swimming in an imaginary pool
Part five of our ongoing series on campus buildings that never were.
Welcome to yet another edition of the Paper Campus, in which I mine the University of Chicago Library's photo archives for glimpses of the way campus could have turned out, but didn't. Show More Summary
Hey, peeps, chick it out
Can you top this chick and bunny art? Test the waters in our Peeps Diorama Contest, back by popular demand.
Laura Wunder, AB’85, tasted sweet victory in 2009 with her diorama “Peeps at the Point.” Her competition proved sticky, as entrants included the minutest of details in Nobel Prize ceremonies, UChicago film scenes, and naked polar-bear runs. Show More Summary
A rocket's maroon glare, bursting with flair
Two new engineering-focused RSOs launch a 7-foot, 6-inch rocket on the University's main quads.
Friday was brisk, sunny, and a little windy, a welcome change from the last few frigid weeks, and no, not ideal rocket-launching weatherShow More Summary
Bleak to chic
MODA’s bloggers share sunny fashion tips for an unforgiving winter.
As a teenager growing up in Connecticut, I wore the latest fashions and did so winter weather be damned. “Dancing shoes on ice—sure that’s a good idea, punkin?” my mom...Show More Summary
Let a thousand Regensteins bloom
Part four in our series on the campus that never was.
Welcome to another installment of the Paper Campus, in which I dig through the U of C Library's archives to find alternative and rejected designs for campus buildings. Today, I've got a doozy for you--one of my favorite spots on campus, the Joseph Regenstein Library. Show More Summary
From Egypt, with hope
A young economist learns a few things at Chicago, but even more on the streets of Cairo.
Nearly two years ago, while working on a story about an exchange program that brings Egyptian students to UChicago, I met a remarkable young man named Mahmoud Khairy. Show More Summary
Dumped
This is the story of an affair that never happened.
Last Thursday Rebecca Steinmetz, AM’09, was scheduled to give a workshop, Flirting for Nerds, at Ida Noyes Hall. Steinmetz, who earned a degree in gender studies from DePaul beforeShow More Summary
Sotomayor holds court
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor visits the Law School.
On a break from the Supreme Court's busy docket, Justice Sonia Sotomayor came to the Law School last Monday to speak to students, lunch with professors, and teach a class.
The...Show More Summary
snOMG
The blizzard that swept through Chicago's worst effects are over, and some UChicago students—for whom classes were cancelled today—found playful ways to enjoy the storm's bountiful snowfall. Here are some scenes from earlier today on campus, shared by Jillian Schrager on Flickr:
Elegy and exhortation
A year ago a tremblement de terre violently shock Haiti, the world, and Gina Athena Ulysse.
Ulysse, a Haitian native who spent the last week of January as artist-in-residence at the University’s Center for the Study of Race, Politics...Show More Summary