Continuing coverage of UChicago’s lawsuit and the NIH’s “indirect” funding cuts can be found here and here. The University of Chicago and 15 other plaintiffs sued the National Institutes of Health ...

It happens to you slowly. You might find yourself waking before dawn, a period of a Sunday morning that really ought never to be witnessed, and catching the 6:30 a.m. bus headed somewhere. Blink, and ...

UChicago Classics professor Clifford Ando blew the whistle on the University’s troubling financial state during a discussion with UChicago history professor Jonathan Levy organized by the Chicago ...

Barack Obama’s own words will be etched into the Obama Presidential Center’s 235-foot flagship museum’s facade. A portion of the chosen text, taken from his speech marking the 50th anniversary of the ...

Content Warning: This op-ed discusses or references racism, white supremacy, antisemitism, and threats of violence and sexual assault. It also contains screenshots of emails that reference these ...

The University finds itself grappling with ballooning costs and a dramatically increased budget deficit. These changes are causing severe financial pressures as UChicago has attempted to catapult ...

The Convergence of Violence As trauma surgeons at the University of Chicago Medical Center, we consistently confront a tripartite taxonomy of violence in our practice. First, massaging the heart of an ...

The University has determined that the pro-Palestine encampment on the main quad is substantially disrupting the functioning and safety of the University, according to an email sent to the University ...

Against the drab backdrop of grey Gothic buildings encircling the quad, a figure adorned in bright colors consistently stands out. Easily recognizable around campus, professor Agnes Callard and her ...

Viewpoints & Editorial Independence I became an editor of the Maroon ’s Viewpoints section in spring of 2024. My co-head editor and I inherited a cozy office space, a hefty Google Drive folder, and a ...

Editor’s note: This piece is one part of a two-part critique on DEI efforts within academia, political spaces, and broader society. Part one can be read here on The Chicago Maroon. Free expression is ...

Over the last year, in response to national press reports on the University’s debt load and structural deficit, the University of Chicago’s leaders have held a sequence of “budget town halls.” In ...