June 30, 2020    
 
Short List
 
News for the UChicago community
 
 
 
An alternative to the nasal swab holds promise for COVID-19 testing, say UChicago medical researchers. Here are this week’s updates from the quads, alumni and faculty news, and must-read stories.
 
 
       
  Top of mind    
 
 
1. Ahead of the curve
 
UChicago Magazine takes you inside a February planning meeting for COVID-19 and the early days of the University’s medical response to the outbreak. More 
 
Learn what it was like to be a med student when the pandemic started.
 
Read about UChicago Medicine’s recent efforts to phase out its coronavirus units for now.
 
 
 
2. The point of the protests
 
Three Big Brains podcast guests—a political scientist, a sociologist, and a legal scholar—share their views on the Black Lives Matter movement and the future of police reform. More 
 
Find out how US police departments measure up against human rights standards.
 
Consider what public art can do to redress Chicago’s history of racist violence.
 
 
 
3. A Jesuit’s journey
 
An interdisciplinary humanities doctorate helped prepare Jesuit priest Michael Czerny, PhD’78, for a life of social justice work. Now a cardinal, he continues that mission. More 
 
Read about Czerny’s work in El Salvador during the country’s civil war.
 
 
 
4. Mr. Tornado
 
Eponym of the tornado intensity scale, Ted Fujita upended our understanding of extreme weather events through his meticulous observations, says the late meteorologist’s UChicago colleague Frank Richter, SM’71, PhD’72. More 
 
Stream the new PBS American Experience documentary about Fujita.
 
 
       
  Plus . . .    
 
 
COVID-19’s impact on Black families  +  New phase of community support  +  Childcare in the reopened economy  +  Lauren Michele Jackson, PhD’19, on reading antiracism reading lists  +  Why Gone with the Wind should stay  +  See more stories
 
 
       
  Things to do    
 
July 9
 
 
 
Watch Divinity School dean David Nirenberg’s virtual Harper Lecture on religion and public health 
 
 
 
Make a summer-friendly Quad Club caprese salad for two 
 
         
         
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  On the job    
 
Job of the week
 
Sales leader / sales director, InVision 
 
         
         
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Professional development
 
July 9
 
Learn to ace behavioral job interviews through storytelling and framing your pitch 
 
         
         
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  UChicagoan    
 
 
Larry McEnerney
 
 
A writers’ teacher
 
After 40 years with the Little Red Schoolhouse, Writing Program director Larry McEnerney, AM’80, retired at the end of Spring Quarter. More 
 
 
       
  Postscript    
 
 
Composition for remote musicians
 
Premiered by a sheltering-at-home Utah Symphony, Augusta Read Thomas’s pandemic composition “Fanfare of Hope and Solidarity” is a paean to community—perfect listening, says the composer, for the Fourth of July. More 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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