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| You might
assume that a class called Are We Doomed? Confronting the End of the
World, taught virtually in Spring 2021, was motivated by COVID-19.
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Astrophysicist Daniel Holz, SM’94, PhD’98, and sociologist James
Evans had to scramble to add material on the pandemic. |
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| Holz, the
science and security board cochair of the Bulletin of the Atomic
Scientists, and Evans, the director of UChicago’s Knowledge Lab, had
planned to cover “headline threats” such as nuclear war, climate
change, and, increasingly, disinformation. “Then there are a bunch
of others that are waiting in the wings,” Holz says, like the rise
of artificial intelligence and pandemics, which took center stage.
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featured a guest speaker—scholars from UChicago and beyond.
Assignments included The Plague (1947) by Albert Camus and
the film Dr. Strangelove (1964). More than 75 College
students enrolled. |
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served as a proving ground for what Holz calls the Existential Risk
Laboratory. Still in the planning stages, XLab would help students
learn about the risks covered in Are We Doomed? and how they might
mitigate these risks—regardless of their career paths. |
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| Dean Hale’s summer
reading |
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One little thing I did was to borrow my son’s
Hum books to have as my summer reading. I’ve
started out with St. Augustine’s
Confessions. Wish me luck, because this summer
has been pretty busy learning the ropes of the
deanship.
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—Melina Hale, PhD’98, dean of the College, on
preparing for her new role |
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Claudia Hogg-Blake, PhD’22, teaching fellow in the humanities,
and her beloved pooch.
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| Breed:
Whoodle
(wheaten terrier-poodle mix)
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Walking
off-leash on quiet trails, meeting new friends at the dog beach,
sitting outside and smelling the world go by
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Vacuum
cleaners, plastic bags caught in trees, cats
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to fame: Inspired
a work of academic philosophy. Claudia Hogg-Blake, PhD’22,
teaching fellow in the humanities, wrote her dissertation,
“Loving Gracie: An Account of Human-Animal Love,” on the
profound bonds between people and nonhuman animals. Hogg-Blake
has also taught two College courses on this topic and a third on
animal ethics. |
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| A
selection of House buttons on offer at Alumni Weekend in
May. |
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| Alumni:
What
House did you live in, and what traditions was it known for? Is
it where you met your best friend, your spouse, your nemesis?
Would you live there now if you could?
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| Help! There’s something in my mailbox
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| The Summer/23 issue of the
Core, the College supplement to the
University of Chicago Magazine, went out in mid-August.
Want to be on the mailing list?
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Previously in College Review
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The College Review, edited by Carrie Golus, AB’91,
AM’93, is brought to you by Alumni Relations and
Development and the College.
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| (2) Fra Angelico, Le
museé Thomas Henry |
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