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08/11/2026
On the pitch and in the lab, UChicago College student Ali Alamery gives the same all-out focus. The starting goalie for the Maroons men's soccer team, he also studies brain cancer and volunteers with hospice patients and hospitalized kids.
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cAlert: Tornado Warning in effect for Chicago, including Hyde Park until 11:15 AM. Seek shelter in an interior room on the lowest floor of the nearest building.
08/10/2026
At the ISAC Museum, UChicago students are learning to think like archaeologists, studying ceramic fragments up to 5,000 years old to uncover how people once lived, traded and told their stories.
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08/09/2026
Can scientists weaken El Niño before it reaches full strength? New geoengineering research from UChicago is exploring whether increasing the ability of ocean clouds to reflect sunlight could reduce the intensity of powerful climate events.
Your Sunday Read:
Scientists Say This Climate Hack Could Stop El Niño Before It Starts Researchers modeled the effect of marine cloud brightening on an emerging super El Niño and completely neutralized it.
For UChicago anthropologist Ryan Cecil Jobson, "big small places" like Trinidad and Tobago have a lot to teach us about oil extraction, political power and the legacy of colonialism. His fieldwork follows in the tradition of late Haitian scholar Michel-Rolph Trouillot, whose papers are on display at UChicago's Regenstein Library.
View "History on the Edges: Michel-Rolph Trouillot's Caribbean" through Aug. 21.
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Spend the summer exploring UChicago and Hyde Park. From campus landmarks to neighborhood favorites, here are a few spots to add to your summer bucket list.
Which one are you looking forward to visiting?
08/07/2026
Remembering Prof. Joel Snyder, a pioneering scholar of photography who helped establish it as a field within art history. A working photographer himself, Snyder also captured images for films including "A River Runs Through It."
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Joel Snyder, pioneer of the study and practice of photography, 1941-2026 Remembered for his technical expertise, relentless curiosity and encouragement of scrupulous looking
08/06/2026
In the recent production "Dream Delivery Service," College student performers never spoke a word on stage—instead they conjured a surreal journey through paper puppets and hundreds of hand-fed projector slides. UChicago TAPS pulled it off across five sold-out nights with the Emmy-winning Manual Cinema, a theater company founded in part by alumni of the program.
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08/05/2026
A new skin-like computing patch from UChicago can analyze health data with AI directly on the body in milliseconds, no wireless connection required. The advance could open the door to smarter wearables and faster, more precise care.
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08/04/2026
Behind the Smart Museum, a student-run garden has been quietly growing for over a decade. The Phoenix Farms crew of volunteers keeps bees for honey and grows mushrooms too, dividing the harvest to whoever helps. The students say it's their way of connecting with the land—and each other.
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