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1. Artistic commitments |
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Focused for decades on art of the African diaspora, Patric McCoy, AB'69, has advice for aspiring collectors: "You see something you like, get it." More » |
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Read about a Smart Museum show of African American abstract art. |
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Take an audio tour of the Smart's exhibition, which draws from Pamela Joyner's (LAB'75) collection. |
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2. Legal light |
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UChicago Magazine explores the legacy of law professor Soia Mentschikoff, who reformed how the United States does business and blazed a trail for women in law. More » |
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Learn how Mentschikoff's portrait changed Harvard Law School. |
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Read about Jewel Stradford Lafontant's (JD'46) barrier-breaking career. |
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3. Bellow on stage |
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With preview performances this week, Court Theatre's production of The Adventures of Augie March embraced a challenge as modern as Saul Bellow's (EX'39) novel: how to stage the unstageable. More » |
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Watch playwright David Auburn, AB'91, talk about adapting Augie. |
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Explore a Special Collections exhibition about the novel and the play. |
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Read about the cataloging and opening of Bellow's archive. |
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4. Gifts of life |
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Cardiac surgeon Valluvan Jeevanandam talks about the back-to-back triple-organ transplants in December that transformed the lives of two UChicago Medicine patients. More » |
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Hear the stories of the doctors and patients on the Big Brains podcast. |
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5. A new social contract |
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Chicago Booth's Raghuram Rajan thinks the antidote to rising populist nationalism around the globe is to balance the market and the state with the interests of local communities. More » |
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Hear what causes inequality in Rajan's view--and what can solve it. |
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Watch Rajan discuss the likelihood of a US economic slowdown. |
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