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For street medicine doctors in Chicago and nationwide, compassion is a calling
Huggett and other clinicians work in shelters and among an estimated 150 street medicine programs nationwide. Street medicine ...
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Remembering Jewel Stradford Lafontant, JD’46, barrier-breaking attorney
Lafontant was born Jewel Carter Stradford in 1922 to a prominent African American family. Her father, C. Francis Stradford, ...
The University of Chicago Chronicle3d
Scientists create ‘odd’ objects that adapt and move over obstacles
Locomotion, the ability to move from one place to another, is an essential survival strategy for virtually every organism. Adapting to the unpredictable terrain they run into, cells, fungi and ...
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Study by UChicago scientists finds four tiny planets around one of our nearest stars
Astronomers have revealed new evidence that there are not just one but four tiny planets circling around Barnard’s Star, the ...
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Former CIA Director William J. Burns to discuss America’s role in the world at April 16 UChicago event
The Chicago Project on Security and Threats (CPOST) will host a discussion between former CIA Director William J. Burns and former U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel on April 16 at the David ...
The University of Chicago Chronicle8d
Roland Winston, pioneer in solar energy, engineering and physics, 1936–2025
Roland Winston, SB’56, SM’57, PhD’63—a pioneer in solar energy, engineering, and physics—died Feb. 8 at his home in California. He was 88. Winston was a University of Chicago professor in the ...
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James A. Robinson to present 2025 Ryerson Lecture on April 23
A UChicago tradition since 1972, the Ryerson Lecture features prominent UChicago faculty members who have made “research ...