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Features 26 all over the map High school students fan out to help the University’s Urban Health Initiative chart the resources in Chicago neighborhoods where there are too few. By Lydialyle Gibson Nov–dEC 2014 voluME 107, NuMBER 2 32 glimpses Novelist Matthew Thomas, AB’97, talks about learning to hear the story that wants to be told. By Susie Allen, AB’09

34 battle lines French illustrators of World War I depicted the arena, the enemy, and the home front with bravura. By Laura Demanski, AM’94

42 delight in discovery Economic historian Claudia Goldin, AM’69, PhD’72, takes a detective’s joy in gathering clues, analyzing data, and reconstructing the stories behind social issues. By Michael Fitzgerald, AB’86

Departments 5 editor’s notes Looking back—and ahead: Getting lost in the Magazine’s archives offers a glimpse into the University’s history and inspires a commitment to ensuring its future. By Laura Demanski, AM’94

6 letters Readers weigh in on the Aims of Education address; the social structure of the Reg; the root problems in Gary, Indiana; anthropologist Robert Redfield’s (LAB 1915, PhB’20, JD’21, PhD’28) inspiring fieldwork; EgyptologistEmily Teeter’s (PhD’90) graceful common touch; 19th-century French shorthand; amphibian cover models; and more.

11 on the agenda President Robert J. Zimmer introduces the University of Chicago Campaign: Inquiry and Impact, a major undertaking with transformative potential.

13 Uchicago JoUrnal In the Moroccan Sahara, A documentary relives the search for the Higgs boson; the Center in Paris researchers unearthed celebrates 10 years; a new College initiative ends student loans; Rockefeller a partial skeleton of Chapel becomes a singer’s calling; a geneticist uncovers links to cancer; Paul Spinosaurus aegyptiacus, Mueller, SM’96, PhD’06, searches for truth at the Vatican Observatory; the first-known water- neuroscientist John Maunsell heads a new UChicago institute; and more. dwelling dinosaur, 49 peer review which 95 million years Noah Berlatsky, AM’94, uncoils the rope that ties Wonder Woman to ago swam and hunted traditional male superheroes and to Twilight’s Bella. Plus: Alumni News, in the vast river system Deaths, and Classifieds. between present-day Egypt and Morocco. 80 lite of the mind See “Spine Tingling,” Art to text with: The Smart Museum revives, and updates, a generous page 24. tradition. By Helen Gregg, AB’09

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Looking back—and ahead by Laura demanski, am’94 Volume 107, Number 2, Nov–Dec 2014

executive editor Mary Ruth Yoe editor Laura Demanski, AM’94 associate editors Lydialyle Gibson, Jason Kelly art director Guido Mendez very so often we get ques- tent and wretched looks.” Kinsler, alumni news editor Helen Gregg, AB’09 tions from readers that who had worked in trade magazines, senior copy editor Rhonda L. Smith send us into the Magazine’s offered his help. Whether it was ac- student interns Minna Jaffery, ’15; archives. Heading to the cepted, we don’t know. Kathryn Vandervalk, ’16 graphic designer Laura Lorenz storage closet, where past Also in that issue, the Magazine re- lite of the mind & interactive issues go back to 1907, I feel ported a major fundraising effort, the content editor Joy Olivia Miller joy—and trepidation. On Campaign for the Arts and Sciences, contributing editors John Easton, one hand, leafing through leading up to the University’s centen- AM’77; Carrie Golus, AB’91, AM’93; Brooke E. O’Neill, AM’04; Amy Braverman those pages is an addictive nial. “We mean to go beyond business Puma pleasure with rewarding as usual,” said then-president Hanna staff bios mag.uchicago.edu/masthead surprises: an article by a Holborn Gray, “and to recreate the Uni- faculty giant, an elegantly devastating versity and its role for the future.” Editorial Office The University of Chicago Magazine, 5235 South Harper Court, Suite eletter to the editor, a youthful photo of If this issue came to your mailbox, 500, Chicago, IL 60615. telephone a now famous alum. On the other hand, you also received Ensuring an Eminent 773.702.2163; fax 773.702.8836; those maroon volumes will chomp up Future, the inaugural issue of an annual email [email protected]. The Magazine is sent to all University of just as much time as you give them. publication that will appear each No- Chicago alumni. The University of Chicago Whoever put a chair in there was not vember during the University of Chi- Alumni Association has its offices at helping matters. cago Campaign: Inquiry and Impact, 5555 South Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, A recent reward was “Billiards Is a publicly launched in October. IL 60637. telephone 773.702.2150; fax 773.702.2166. address changes Good Game” (Summer/75), a faculty- In the annual you’ll find University 800.955.0065 or [email protected]. giant perfecta, with English professor trustee David Brooks, AB’83, inter- web mag.uchicago.edu and A River Runs Through It author viewing President Robert J. Zimmer Norman Maclean, PhD’40, profiling about the University’s values and The University of Chicago Magazine (ISSN-0041-9508) is published bimonthly physics professor and UChicago’s first priorities. You can also read in depth (Sept–Oct, Nov–Dec, Jan–Feb, Mar–Apr, Nobelist, Albert Abraham Michel- about students across campus who May–June, and July–Aug) by the University son. As a grad student Maclean would have benefited from ambitious invest- of Chicago in cooperation with the Alumni watch the enigmatic physicist play ments in financial aid, new opportuni- Association, 5555 South Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637. Published continuously billiards alone after lunch each day at ties and resources to drive innovation since 1907. Periodicals postage paid at the Quad Club. In Michelson’s master- at UChicago, and the UChicago Medi- Chicago and additional mailing offices. ful game, his painting, and his music, cine’s researchers and physicians who postmaster Send address changes to The University of Chicago Magazine, Alumni Maclean found a key to his genius. It’s are tackling one of the world’s most Records, 5235 South Harper Court, a wonderful long read, available at common diseases, diabetes. Chicago, IL 60615. mag.uchicago.edu/science-medicine/ As the campaign and its impact billiards-good-game. build, you’ll find much more in these © 2014 University of Chicago. Time heals all wounds, so we can pages about how it is transforming read the harshest reader letters with UChicago’s future. equanimity now—with admiration, even, for those who wielded the sharp- A NEW FACE est rapiers. I goggled, then grinned, at In October we welcomed Helen Gregg, Ivy League Magazine Network www.ivymags.com a letter from David M. Kinsler, SB’37, AB’09, as the Magazine’s new alumni director, advertising sales and AM’39 (Spring/83). “You’ve had news editor. Helen, who has worked marketing Ross Garnick some sad issues before,” he slashed, for Becker’s Hospital Review and Go- [email protected] “but this issue drives me to action. It tham Books, takes over the Peer Re- 212.724.0906 is so very amateurish.” view section. Arriving days before He wasn’t finished: “I have always deadline, she jumped in with both feet been amazed at the doggedness of the and wrote Lite of the Mind (page 80). book and dismayed by its feeble con- We are very happy she’s here. ◆

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Ed Notes_NovDec 14_v4.indd 3 10/28/14 12:03 PM Division, where I became aware of religious studies, the field in which LETTERS I received my PhD from Syracuse University some years later. He was a thrilling professor, pushing for new perspectives that changed my thought Floor lore processes and life. When I dropped out of the College for a year in 1975, my good friend Ted Du- I am thrilled to learn of Professor Pont, AB’77, and I were sharing a book locker in the basement of Regenstein Smith’s distaste for the phone (which (“The Regulars,” Sept–Oct/14). I I don’t share in its entirety) and for left him a note before my sudden de - the cell phone (which I happily do not The social construct parture, saying that I was moving on use). Alas, I have succumbed to com- of Regenstein has to “greener pastures.” puters, hence my ability to send this When we talked about this years email to the Magazine. Cheers, Profes- actually little changed. later, Ted confessed that he thought sor Smith. Thanks for your guidance. I meant that I was moving to the fifth You are a star in my book. floor. Though the social pecking order of the floors may change slightly, it is nice Jill Strachan, AB’71, AM’72 to see that the social construct of Regenstein has actually, in fact, little changed. washington, dc Adam Stoler, AB’78 bronx, new york “In Search of Words Lost” was bril- liantly hilarious, but hints at an issue of serious interest. Scott was able to satis- fy his obsessive curiosity by charming Up for air have saved himself a lot of time. Smith’s a librarian into copying and mailing old When my wife saw the cover of the lecture, along with several others, was text from the Maroon, but not all alumni Sept–Oct/14 issue of the Magazine she included in a 1997 volume, The Aims of are charming and not all librarians are asked, “Is that a picture of you on the Education, published by the University pliable. The Maroon’s poorer cousin to last stages of your University-mandat- of Chicago. The volume is a wonder- the north, the Hyde Park Herald, has ed swim test?” It wasn’t, but it could ful tribute to what a liberal education for several years had its entire content be a figural representation. should be and should be read in con- online, scanned and word searchable Jim Best, AB’60 junction with the UChicago Press’s with PDF download options. This is kent, ohio collection The Great Latke-Hamantash an amazing resource for tracking any Debate (2005), based on another great number of people, buildings, and social Aiming high U of C tradition. Of course, had Mr. issues of the neighborhood. It was with great pleasure and a real Scott known of the book, he would While I don’t have a burning desire sense of nostalgia that I read Wayne have been deprived of the pleasure to check the text of the Aims of Edu- Scott’s (AB’86, AM’89) search to re- of the hunt. The Aims of Education cation address I attended in the 1970s, cover Jonathan Z. Smith’s 1982 Aims lecture is just one of the things that other odds and ends come to mind: in of Education lecture (“In Search of makes the University of Chicago spe- particular, whether I am hallucinating Words Lost,” Sept–Oct/14). He could cial. I have suggested for years that my in recollecting that the entire balcony own university adopt something along of Mandel Hall shook when Muddy those lines, but, alas, to no avail. Waters performed “Hoochie Coochie Steven B. Smith, PhD’81 Man.” Of course there is a near infini- new haven, connecticut tude of great and interesting thinkers and doers, resident and visiting, whose I thoroughly enjoyed Wayne Scott’s activities at and around the University essay. Not only was I, having just cele- hide in the Maroon archives. If the ar- brated my Medicare birthday, charmed chitectural bills from Jeanne Gang by his thoughts on remembering, but I have not eaten up the whole budget, was transported to a class on Islamic and Dean Boyer is willing to relinquish Civilization that I took with Jonathan his monopoly on obscure tidbits of an- Z. Smith, probably in 1968–69. It was cient school lore, can a similar project definitely an unusual offering for the be undertaken for the Maroon? time period and there were just a few Andrew S. Mine, AB’81 students enrolled. We used a draft text- chicago book (photocopied pages in several binders). Smith was perhaps in his first Integrated interests year of teaching in the College. I was pleased to read of Robert Red- If memory serves, I worked with field’s (LAB 1915, PhB’20, JD’21, him on several different occasions PhD’28) collection of revolutionary The Sept–Oct/14 cover: Frog or frosh? as a student in the New Collegiate corridos from Tepoztlán in the 1920s

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Untitled-1 1 10/24/14 10:41 AM at the Upstate Medical Center at Syr- LETTERS acuse and he quickly referenced the It’s not clear that the first edition, which read the same. Yet root causes of Gary’s no one spoke during the debates on the Affordable Care Act of the right of the troubles are being (“Torch Songs,” Original Source, individual to decide their health care fully acknowledged and Sept–Oct/14). He was my mentor, and directions, as Locke pronounced. in 1969–70 I studied the social struc- Supposedly Benjamin Rush, a physi- addressed. ture of that beautiful village. Redfield cian and a signer of the Declaration of also had a connection with the Marine Independence, said after the writing Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, of the Constitution that the absence Massachusetts (“Natural Connec- of a right to health in the Constitution same root causes that have destroyed tion,” Sept–Oct/14). He was there in was a great mistake. cities such as Detroit (and that now the 1940s and later wrote about “levels The best articles in the University seem to threaten Chicago): unions, of social integration,” taking marine of Chicago Magazine discuss an alum’s high taxes, crime, corruption, decline ecology as a model. His range of inter- reading of original materials or deal- of the intact family, and poor schools. ests, from peasant societies to complex ing with original events and then de - These factors are a malignancy that civilizations, was inspiring. veloping new ideas that have received feed off what’s good. They are unre- Philip K. Bock, AM’56 recognition by others. The approach lated to skin color. albuquerque, new mexico highlights the effectiveness of the It seems like a lot of thought and ef- teaching methods of the University fort are helping Gary. But more could An ambassador over these many years, both to myself be needed. Businesses and families Emily Teeter, PhD’90, the subject and other alumni. must be attracted. of Robert K. Ritner’s (PhD’87) let- Leonard R. Friedman, AB’56 Indiana has recently become a right- ter to the editor (Sept–Oct/14), has middleton, massachusetts to-work state, which is a big plus. justly earned a worldwide following School choice would improve educa- of Egyptologists, both professional Gary Rx tional opportunity, which will bring and amateur, who greatly admire her “City Limits” (July–Aug/14) is thor- new families and businesses. Church endearing ability to enrich superior ough and insightful. But it’s not clear and community efforts to reinforce scholarship with the common touch, that the root causes of Gary’s troubles family values cost little and might have and to do so with decency and grace. are being fully acknowledged and big rewards. In her books, articles, and in person addressed. Chandler, Arizona, is similar to she makes Egyptology accessible to all. I lived in Gary, Indiana, at 1130 Gary (about 50 square miles and eth- Brian Alm, AM’71 West 7th Avenue in the 1960s. This nically diverse). Businesses have been rock island, illinois address was the University Club, locating and growing there because of which also served as a boarding house its business-friendly environment, ex- Primary texts for junior employees of the area steel cellent work force, family orientation, To me, one underlying principle of the mills. Ann Gregory, the house manag- and educational and worship choices. great books program is the ability to er, was a cheerful and kindly woman Gary deserves a strong renewal. I learn to read original writings. In the who also was a part-time professional appreciate having lived and worked debate on a right to health care, I read golfer. She had become the first black there. It’s hoped that Mayor Freeman- John Locke’s Two Treatises of Gov- woman to compete in a United States Wilson, Chicago Harris, and other ernment. Locke was an accomplished Golf Association Women’s Amateur parties have great success. physician as well as an authority on Championship in 1956. Stephen J. Breckley, MBA’68 natural rights. In the third edition in Gary was a hub of economic activ- chandler, arizona the rare book room of the Boston Pub- ity. Steel and other industries invested lic Library, I found that his famous heavily in technology and expansion Intertwined words “life, liberty and the pursuit of capital. Gary’s people, black and In recent years, I have been delighted happiness” were written originally white, were hard working, well edu- when the University of Chicago Maga- as “life, health, liberty and goods.” I cated, and family oriented. zine arrives. While I was not a huge called civil libertarian Thomas Szasz Gary’s decline resulted from the fan of the frog on the front this time, it was wonderful to have that six degrees of separation feeling that has charac- BLAST FROM THE PAST terized a lifetime of post–Hyde Park decades. It was not surprising to find Editor: As to the Spring 1983 issue: the Lucy Pick highlighted (“Novel Pil- photographs from “Is There Life on Campus?” grim,” Sept–Oct/14), someone I met are very entertaining, and the text is witty. in recent years as my partner, Betty But it looks as if somebody either washed or Bayer, was a fellow at the University painted the walls at Jimmy’s. How shocking! of Chicago Martin Marty Center. I —Mary Eastman Sexton, AB’68, Summer/83 look forward to reading her novel.

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Briggs_IvyLeague7.5x10.indd 1 9/29/14 10:20 AM 141145_Briggs&Riley_Chicago.indd 1 9/29/14 11:01 AM ninth book of poetry, Night Bus to the Magazine reminds me of the ways insti- LETTERS Afterlife (Carnegie Mellon University tutional collaborations have histories. Press, 2014). Susan Henking, AM’79, PhD’88 Peter was a Shimer student before chicago he was a UChicago student. Today he More surprising, in the years since supports young poets at Tulane Uni- Symbolic discovery I became president of Shimer College, versity, where he teaches; in his role Many years ago I bought a very curi- are those moments when I see Shimer as writer and editor; and at Shimer ous and very large library wall chart in the pages of the Magazine. While through a poetry contest. His inspira- printed in Paris in 1808. It is entitled our historic relationship makes this tion, he told me some time ago when “Carte générale pasigraphique.” I used less surprising for me, it is certainly I met him in New Orleans, was a visit this esoteric knowledge of a French in- wonderful each time it happens. This to Chicago many years ago by T. S. vention intended to become a universal time, it was a small blurb about Peter Eliot. Today he inspires many others, language (well before Esperanto) when- Cooley, AM’64, who published his including me. And his presence in the ever I found myself seated at a dinner party with Parisians deliberately speak- SOcIAL UcHIcAGO ing nuanced argot beyond my compre- hension. I would interject (in French, of course) whether they had heard of a Michael Fitzgerald @riparian • Oct 22 French system of “pasigraphie.” It nev- Today a friend called @UChicago “the most er failed me; they were clueless. intellectually intense school in the country.” A However, now Daniele Metilli and reminder of why: http://ow.ly/Dc9s8 Giula Accetta stumped me with their reference to Jean Coulon de Thévenot UChicago Humanities @UChicagoHum • Oct 16 and his work Méthode tachygraphique “I like to read things that other people don’t read.” (“Margin Call,” Original Source, Sascha Ebeling & his work w/ Tamil language July–Aug/14). After rummaging in bit.ly/1E53pS2 my library, I unrolled my wall chart and looked more closely at this still SnksNSclesTurtlTales @SnakesNScales • Oct 15 curious stenography antique. The Jurassic Park didn’t get it half right! symbols matched those in the 19th http://fb.me/1l9JnuHrL century marginalia deciphered by the prize winners. Mitchell J. NewDelman, JD’65 UChicago College @UChicagoCollege • Oct 15 monaco Maroons who call the Regenstein Library a second home are sure to appreciate @susie_allen’s essay: Remembering Mirsky http://mag.uchicago.edu/university-news/regulars Friends and family are collecting remembrances of Marvin Mirsky, Amy Myers @AmyRebeccaMyers • Oct 10 AM’47, (1923–2014), who taught hu- .@susie_allen is SPOT ON with her essay about Reg manities at the University of Chicago life. Weirdly makes me miss the stacks? http://mag from 1962 through 1992, as well as .uchicago.edu/university-news/regulars in the University’s Basic Program of Liberal Education for adults. We Bala Subramanian @profsubramanian • Oct 8 would appreciate knowing your rec- A voice for the voiceless: Advocacy of the rights ollections. Please send them to info@ of immigrant children http://mag.uchicago.edu marvinmirsky.com. /law-policy-society/immigrant-children Mary Ann Whelan chicago Critter Lady Chicago @critterladychgo • Oct 7 I’m far behind reading mags. In UofC mag from The University of Chicago Magazine Mar/Apr’13: fascinating article abt @TheGoodDeath: welcomes letters about its contents or about http://mag.uchicago.edu/decomposure the life of the University. Letters for pub- lication must be signed and may be edited Lyo Louis-Jacques @LyoLouisJacques • Oct 4 for space, clarity, and civility. To provide A @ChicagoBooth alum taps into Beijing’s a range of views and voices, we encour- microbrewery scene. http://mag.uchicago.edu/ age letter writers to limit themselves to economics-business/brewhub 300 words or fewer. Write: Editor, The University of Chicago Magazine, 5235 Social UChicago is a sampling of social media mentions of recent stories in South Harper Court, Suite 500, Chicago, the print and online editions of the Magazine and other University of Chicago IL 60615. Or email: uchicago-magazine publications. To join the Twitter conversation, follow us @UChicagoMag. @uchicago.edu.

10 the university of chicago magazine | nov–dec 2014 on the agenda

A campaign built on values By RoBeRt J. ZimmeR, PR esident

his is an important moment professional student support helps the for the University of Chica- University continue to attract prom- go. We have now embarked ising students and educate the next upon the public phase of the generation of leaders in the academy, most ambitious and compre- the professions, and a wide range of hensive fundraising effort significant human endeavors. in our history—the Univer- The College’s Odyssey Schol - sity of Chicago Campaign: arship program, funded by a $100 Inquiry and Impact. This million anonymous donation and $4.5 billion endeavor sup- matching gifts, has removed debt ports the intellectual and from the financial aid packages for educational initiatives articulated by College students from low- and mod- tour faculty and academic leadership. erate-income backgrounds. In addi- The campaign advances priorities tion, support through the UChicago throughout the University, including Campaign will help drive a sweeping in the College, divisions, schools, in- new initiative for undergraduate aid. stitutes, library, and medical center. Announced in October, No Barriers These priorities are designed to en- President Robert J. Zimmer eliminates the need for student loans sure the University’s continued and from need-based financial aid pack- enhanced eminence, building on our ages, removes application fees for all extraordinary history and seeing the Philanthropic investments by alum- students applying for financial aid, values that shaped that history mani- ni and friends have deepened existing simplifies the process for obtaining fest in new and exciting ways. strengths, such as the Core curricu- financial aid, and guarantees paid I encourage you to learn more about lum in the College, scholarly contri- internships for students from low- the UChicago Campaign—by reading butions within the disciplines, and the income families during the summer Ensuring an Eminent Future: The Uni- expansion of our faculty. These gifts after their first academic year. versity of Chicago Campaign Annual, also have made possible innovative ef- The University’s distinctive culture mailed with this magazine, or online forts, such as the Neubauer Collegium of inquiry and analysis continues to at campaign.uchicago.edu, where for Culture and Society, the Institute draw to our Hyde Park campus, to af- you can watch the campaign video, for Molecular Engineering, and the filiated laboratories, and to our global explore campaign priorities, and find Bucksbaum Institute for Clinical Ex- centers a diverse range of scholars, out about upcoming campaign events cellence. The University continues to students, alumni, and leaders in policy around the world. expand its portfolio of research and and practice from around the world, all The University of Chicago Cam- related applications concerning urban of whom add to the vitality of our com- paign: Inquiry and Impact is a major challenges, its arts programs and fa- munity. The campaign supports this undertaking with transformative po- cilities, and its new centers in Beijing, dynamic flow of visitors, enhancing tential, made possible by the dedica- Delhi, and Hong Kong, among many the University’s role as an intellectual tion and generosity of you, our alumni other burgeoning initiatives. destination. This environment of rig- and friends. The quiet phase of the Programmatic and financial sup - orous, often interdisciplinary, collab- campaign generated 182,000 gifts to- port for students is a campaign pri- oration is what drives the University’s taling more than $2 billion, and these ority across every segment of the consistent international leadership in investments have already had a trans- University, ensuring that talented education and research. formative effect on education and re- students from all backgrounds will Thank you for your continued en - search at the University, not only in be able to fully participate in educa- gagement with, advocacy of, and sup-

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physics Fever, depicts physicists at work. They nature of the universe. do not all labor alike. Theorists, on the other hand, use Experimentalists at CERN, the chalk to scribble scientific hieroglyph- European consortium where research- ics on blackboards. Fevered ers discovered the Higgs particle—an Moderating a panel of researchers as essential missing piece to the under- part of the University’s Science on the standing of the universe that explains Screen series, physical sciences dean research why other particles have mass—come edward “Rocky” Kolb summarized Theories and particles collide in across as contractors at a multibillion- the distinction for his Logan Center dollar construction site. They operate audience. “It seemed that the accelera- a documentary that captures the the Large Hadron Collider, a particle tor builders and experimentalists wear tension and intensity of discovery. accelerator whose scale, precision, and hardhats, steel-toed boots, get dirty, complexity befit its massive purpose: crawl around,” Kolb said. Meanwhile, A recent documentary about the recreating the conditions just after he went on, panelist and Institute for

photography by anna pantelia © 2013 cernsearch for the Higgs boson, Particle the big bang to reveal the origins and Advanced Study theoretical physicist

the university of chicago magazine | nov–dec 2014 13 weighing 10 tons each were “tossed STUDY ABROAD around like a train wreck.” In Particle Fever, Arkani-Hamed criticizes the celebration that accom- panied the collider’s debut as exces- Paris à sive and premature. The real work had not yet begun. After 15 years of theorizing, he had dix ans reason to be anxious about what the The University’s fi rst international particle accelerator’s data would reveal. “Depending on what happens with the center celebrates a milestone. LHC, these are 15 years I could come to see as the best possible thing I could In 2001, dean of the College John Boy- Particle tracks fl y out from the heart of have been doing with this time, or it er, AM’69, PhD’75, paid a visit to the one of the earliest collisions at CERN’s could just be the entire 15 years might future site of the University’s Center Large Hadron Collider. as well have not happened, no impact,” in Paris—a vast, undeveloped former he says in the fi lm. “And then that’s just railyard in the 13th arrondissement, 15 years that are gone. It’s not the sort of across the street from an abandoned Nima Arkani-Hamed, who is in the thing where there’s consolation prizes.” grain mill. fi lm, “sits in his offi ce drinking coffee, To face such disappointment re- Two other early supporters of the drawing plenty of diagrams.” quires a doggedness that shakes off mis- center, French literature professor A good sport, Arkani-Hamed takes and accidents as inevitable in the Robert Morrissey, PhD’82, and Janel played along with Kolb’s teasing vi- service of transcendent science. “Jump- Mueller, then dean of the humanities, sion of theorists with their feet up and ing from failure to failure with undi- had come with Boyer to visit the site in heads in the stars. Then he explained minished enthusiasm,” says Stanford’s the rain. “We were up to our ankles in the unseen forces roiling under the Savas Dimopoulos, SM’77, PhD’78, in mud,” says Boyer, “trying to imagine placid surface. “The daily life of a the- the fi lm, “is the big secret to success.” that we were going to be able to build orist, it looks like all fun and games,” Fast-forward, as Particle Fever essen- something worthy of the University.” Arkani-Hamed said, “but the daily life tially does, to the cusp of discovery in By fall of 2003, the center—located of a theorist is defi ned by failure.” 2012. Accumulating data hinted at the on the lower fl oors of two new neigh- Day after brain-straining day turns Higgs’s existence and the looming ques- boring apartment buildings—was sort into months, years, and decades of tions focused on its mass. Where the of open, welcoming its first group of developing ideas only to risk their particle fell on a spectrum of about 115 undergraduates to do course work in dismissal when the experimentalists to 140 gigaelectron volts (GeV) would European civilization and French. The produce the data. determine the validity of many theo- following spring, the buildings were At the Large Hadron Collider, the ries of the universe. The reported mass fully built, the garden in the courtyard experimentalists encountered their of about 126 GeV neither confi rmed nor between them had been planted, and own failures. In September 2008 the ruled out most theories discussed in the the complex made its offi cial debut. LHC went live with great fanfare. film. The inconclusive result, Dimo- Ten years later, much has changed. “Now comes the day of reckoning,” poulos says, “is about as interesting as it The center, which expanded to the LHC project director Lyn Evans says could be.” lower fl oor of a third building in 2005, in the fi lm. “Five, four, three, two, one, As UChicago physicist Marcela is now 7,200 square feet. But with 250 now.” Nothing happened. “No beam.” Carena put it at the Particle Fever pan- undergrads coming to study there each On the tense second attempt, to the el, “Now that we arrived to the sum- year—nearly half the total number who physicists’ palpable relief and raucous mit, we look and we see, ‘Oh my God, study abroad—it’s full to bursting. The delight, the collider generated a beam, there are other summits a bit higher center offers courses in more than 10 then a second going the opposite way, there and we need to arrive there.’” fi elds, including African civilizations, which turned out to be just a tottering The Higgs discovery represented astronomy, mathematics, neurobiol- baby step. The two beams still needed the ultimate summit for one theorist. ogy, and human evolution, all taught to speed around the 17-mile ring and col- Peter Higgs, who posited the parti- by UChicago faculty. lide to produce the cosmic debris that cle’s existence in the 1960s, attended The mill across the street has been could be measured and analyzed. the unveiling of the LHC data. transformed into the Université Paris Before those collisions could hap- Higgs, the 2013 Nobel laureate in Diderot (Paris 7); UChicago students pen, a “completely catastrophic” he- physics, dabbed away tears at the dis- at the center are jointly registered as lium leak shut down the LHC for more covery he did not expect to live to see, students in the University of Paris and than a year. “It was the biggest accident if his namesake boson existed at all. given University of Paris IDs. Along that’s ever happened at a particle ac- Then he stood and cheered with the with the massive Bibliothèque na- celerator, by far,” said panelist Joseph crowd gathered at CERN, a theorist tionale de France, built by President cern 2010 © Lykken, the chief research offi cer at applauding—and applauded by—the François Mitterrand in 1995, the in- Fermilab and a physicist on one of the experimentalists who discovered the stitutions now form an academic cor-

LHC experiments. About 50 magnets particle that he conceived.—Jason Kelly ridor in the 13th arrondissement. photography by tom tian, ab’10

14 the university of chicago magazine | nov–dec 2014 WILLIAM RAINEY HARPER’S INDEX BUSINESS INCUBATOR

Square footage of the new Chicago Innovation Exchange space, which opened in October at 1452 East 53rd Street: 17,000 Additional square footage opening across the street in 2015: 7,000 Number of people the CIE campus can accommodate, operating at full capacity: This fall a European Civilization class took students to the Palace of Versailles.

And in a related development, Mor- panel discussion about these global am- 350 rissey, who once stood ankle-deep in bitions: “Paris-Chicago and Chicago- the mud, was awarded the French Le- Paris: A Global Metropolis for Europe, Grant from the State of gion of Honor in 2013. Africa, and the Middle East.” The Illinois to support the The center has hosted many confer- event—attended by faculty, students, development of the CIE: ences, colloquia, debates, and public and alumni, as well as representatives lectures in the past decade. A dozen from partner institutions and scholars graduate students are in residence; fac- from around the world—was held at ulty from departments throughout the the Bibliothèque nationale de France, $1M University visit regularly for research, a two-block walk from the center. conferences, and teaching. Ian H. Solomon, vice president for Resources in the UChicago The center’s focus has also broad- global engagement, who had come di- Innovation Fund to invest in ened, looking outside France to all of rectly from the inaugural ceremony of faculty and student start- Europe and beyond. When students the Chicago Booth Executive MBA ups based at the CIE: in the College’s Cairo program had program in Hong Kong, moderated. to evacuate during Egypt’s 2011 revo- Three UChicago faculty joined him: lution, they finished the program in François Richard (anthropology), Paris. “Paris is an imperial city,” says Ahmed El Shamsy (Near Eastern $20M Boyer, with deep roots in Africa and languages and civilizations), and Lisa the Middle East; in the next 10 years, Wedeen (political science), as well as Number of new businesses he hopes the center will become a Robert Gleave, an Arabic studies pro- the CIE expects to support natural base for UChicago academics fessor at the University of Exeter (UK) each year: © 2010 cern 2010 © researching these regions. and 2013 Mellon Islamic Studies Initia- On a Friday afternoon in early Sep- tive visiting scholar at UChicago. tember, the University celebrated the Wedeen,who is writing a book on the photography by tom tian, ab’10 Paris Center’s first 10 years with a recent political history of Syria, noted 10 to 20

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UChicagoJournal_v18.indd 15 10/28/14 8:53 AM that for her, “being in Paris has become said. “Milton Friedman [AM’33], on the Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière. Philippe crucial,” not just because working in his deathbed, said the euro will never Desan, whose lecture was titled “Mon- Syria is now impossible. Paris, home to survive, because it’s price-fixing. And taigne Meets the Cannibals,” led an ex- a number of prominent Syrian exiles, price-fixing will never last.” cursion to the Musée du Quai Branly. “has become a center of artistic activity The next morning the celebrations In the 16th century, Desan ex - and political conversation,” she said. continued with a choice of five lec- plained, cannibals from Brazil were “It’s very difficult to think about Af- tures, each by a faculty member in a brought to Europe and exhibited in rica without thinking of France,” said different discipline, followed by an freak shows. Among the spectators Richard, a historical anthropologist excursion to a Paris institution impor- was Michel de Montaigne, who in his whose research on rural Senegal led tant to that faculty member’s research. essay “Of Cannibals” imagines him- him to study French imperialism. The Three of the five lectures looked be- self in their place. At the museum, De- history of the French nation in the 18th yond French borders. Wedeen spoke on san’s group viewed a cape of feathers and 19th centuries was made not just in the Syrian uprisings and then led an ex- (the cannibals’ currency) and a blud- France, he said, but also in Senegal and cursion to the Grande Mosquée de Par- geon they used on their victims—the Louisiana: “The idea of the nation-state is. Anthropologist Alan Kolata, after a same artifacts Montaigne saw. as being bounded is something which to lecture on the kings of Angkor, Cam- In addition to the Center in Paris, some extent has been rethought.” bodia, went to the Musée Guimet. His- the University now operates centers After a cocktail reception, the guests torian Paul Cheney, academic director in Beijing, Delhi, and Hong Kong. had dinner in the library’s Hall des of the center for 2014–15, talked about Meanwhile, Boyer continues to harbor Globes (an appropriate venue, Solo- 18th-century elites in Saint-Domingue, ambitions for Paris, which hosts UChi- mon noted) while listening to Chicago a French colony in the Caribbean; his cago’s most in-demand study abroad Booth economist Austan Goolsbee de- tour was of the Archives Nationales. programs. “If we had another classroom liver a skeptical assessment of the Eu- Françoise Meltzer, after her lecture or two,” he says, “we could easily mount rozone: “You’ve got countries locked “Describing the Insane: Baudelaire even more programs.” in at the wrong exchange rates,” he and the Alienists,” took her group to —Carrie Golus, AB’91, AM’93

next generation Polymers enlightened

Researchers from UChicago and Argonne National Laboratory have identified a new polymer that appears to be a key to generating solar energy more efficiently. Luping Yu, a chemistry professor and fellow in the Institute for Molecular Engineering, led a team that reported its breakthrough in the September Nature Photonics. The researchers’ secret is PID2, a polymer they developed that improves efficiency in polymer solar cells by both transporting charges more easily and increasing the absorption of light. The team used the high-brilliance X-ray beam at

Argonne’s Advanced Photon Source photography by andrew nelles to study the structure of polymers this end to the other.” fullerene as electron acceptor to in solar cells. When PID2 was After determining the optimal allow charge separation,” says added, the polymers formed amount of PID2 to add to a Luyao Lu, SM’11, a chemistry grad fibers—pathways that allow standard mixture of a polymer and student and the lead author of the electrons to travel quickly between the carbon molecule fullerene, Nature Photonics paper. electrodes on different sides of the researchers achieved an The team is now looking for ways the cell. “It’s like you’re generating efficiency of 8.2 percent, the best to reach the 10 percent efficiency a street,” Yu explains, “and ever for such solar cells. “Basically, benchmark necessary to make somebody that’s traveling along in polymer solar cells we have a polymer solar cells commercially the street can find a way to go from polymer as electron donor and viable.—Kathryn Vandervalk, ’16 university of chicago news office

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social sciences dean David and guests. The process of researchers measure and Nirenberg, the Collegium’s choosing an architect begins improve the technology is founding director since 2012. this fall. Scheduled to open unavailable. The NSF-funded To date the Collegium’s in 2018, the new building will project, called Chameleon for research collaborations be located along 60th Street its customizable capacity, will between scholars from across between Woodlawn and study hardware and software the University and around the Kimbark Avenues overlooking through an experimental data world have included faculty the Midway Plaisance. center to help advance the from every department in the cloud’s capabilities. Divisions of the Humanities and the Social Sciences. LESSONS IN LEADERSHIP Urban nonprofi ts and OBAMA LIBRARY BID ADVANCES government institutions often A collaborative effort led by have limited time and money to the University of Chicago to train prospective leaders. The CREATIVE MINDS bring the Obama Presidential Offi ce of Civic Engagement, UChicago historian Library to the city’s South in partnership with the Civic Tara Zahra and criminal Side has been chosen as one Consulting Alliance and the justice advocate Jonathan of four fi nalists by the Barack Local Initiatives Support Rapping, AB’88, were Obama Foundation. The other Corporation, has established among 21 recipients of 2014 fi nalists are the University the Civic Leadership Academy MacArthur Fellowships. of Illinois at Chicago, at the University of Chicago Zahra, a historian of Columbia University, and the to help alleviate that problem. Central and Eastern University of Hawaii. The LIBRARY SEARCH RESULTS Beginning in January, Europe, was recognized for foundation’s board expects Brenda L. Johnson will begin fellows nominated by their “challenging the way we to make a recommendation a fi ve-year term as library organizations will take courses view the development of the to the president and fi rst lady director and University led by faculty from Chicago concepts of nation, family, in early 2015. UChicago’s librarian on January 1. The Harris, the School of Social and ethnicity and painting proposal, made in partnership Ruth Lilly Dean of University Service Administration, a more integrative picture with the City of Chicago and Libraries at Indiana University Chicago Booth, the Law of 20th-century European local civic leaders, advocates Bloomington since 2010, School, and the Graham history.” Rapping, an Atlanta locating the library in a Johnson succeeds Judith School. After the six-month lawyer and founder of the neighborhood surrounding Nadler, who retired in June program, fellows will complete legal defense nonprofi t the University to add to the after nearly fi ve decades at a capstone project that applies Gideon’s Promise, told the South Side’s economic and UChicago. Previously holding knowledge from the courses Atlanta Journal Constitution cultural development. leadership positions at the to challenges they face within that “public defenders are University of Michigan and their organizations. doing this generation’s the University of California, civil rights work.” Santa Barbara, Johnson serves NEGOTIATIONS SUSPENDED on the board of directors In September the University of the Kuali Open Library suspended negotiations for a Environment (OLE), which second term with the Confucius the University Libraries Institute, a partnership begun implemented this fall. Kuali in 2009 to foster research on OLE provides technical China and collaborations with infrastructure to support academic institutions there. the library’s new catalog, Administrators chose not to VuFind, offering electronic extend the relationship, which access to some journals and concludes at the end of this books and displaying current academic year, while reiterating availability in search results. the University’s commitment FORUM FOR COLLABORATION to collaborations with Chinese A new facility to host academic HEADS IN THE CLOUD scholars, students, and photography by andrew nelles conferences, meetings, The University’s Computation institutions. Funded by the DIRECTION OF THOUGHT ceremonies, and other campus Institute leads a group of Chinese government, the US Philosopher Jonathan Lear gatherings will be named in institutions that received $10 campus institutes promote has been appointed the recognition of a gift from million from the National the teaching of the country’s Roman Family Director of University trustee David Science Foundation to language and culture, but the the Neubauer Collegium for M. Rubenstein, JD’73. The study ways to maximize the government’s role has raised Culture and Society. Lear, the Rubenstein Forum will be potential of cloud computing. concerns about its infl uence John U. Nef Distinguished a hub for activities such as Because private companies over content. More than 100 Service Professor in the lectures and workshops such as Amazon, Google, and faculty members signed a Committee on Social featuring members of the Microsoft host much of today’s petition this past spring calling Thought, Philosophy, University community, cloud computing, information for the University to end

university of chicago newsce offi and the College, succeeds alumni, visiting scholars, that would be useful to help the relationship.

the university of chicago magazine | nov–dec 2014 17 FINANCIAL AID program that will broaden access to join this community without fi nancial the College and simplify the appli- worry, and with comprehensive sup- cation and financial aid process. No port for their success both in the Col- Barriers will include the replacement lege and beyond graduation.” Access of student loans with grants in all No Barriers is designed to demysti- need-based fi nancial aid packages. It fy college access and aid, relieve debt, will also eliminate application fees and empower families. Its initiatives granted for families seeking fi nancial aid and will be phased in beginning with the A new College initiative reduces offer more than 100 free nationwide Class of 2019, who will enter the Col- information sessions on the college lege in the fall of 2015. debt, simplifi es the application application and fi nancial aid process, In addition to increasing need-based process, and supports careers. a simplifi ed fi nancial aid process based aid, No Barriers will increase Nation- primarily on the Free Application for al Merit Scholar awards from $2,000 The University of Chicago is launch- Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), and to $4,000 per year for four years and ing a comprehensive initiative to sup- new scholarships for underserved and offer new merit award opportunities port students in all phases of their underrepresented groups. for National Hispanic Recognition education and beyond graduation, The No Barriers program com- Scholars and National Achievement including expanded opportunities for plements the University’s ongoing Scholars—programs designed for career development and elimination expansion of career advancement op- Hispanic and African American high of all student loan requirements in portunities for all students, with tar- school students. Scholarships also will undergraduate need-based financial geted opportunities for students from be available for selected UChicago aid packages. low-income families. Such actions af- summer programs. The University also will enhance fi rm the profound value of the educa- John W. Boyer, AM’69, PhD’75, its Odyssey Scholarship program, bol- tional experience in the College, said dean of the College, said the new stering aid and programming for low- President Robert J. Zimmer. commitment would not be possible income students through increased “Students in the College benefit without the visionary efforts of financial support, career guidance, from the rare combination of a vibrant thousands of alumni, parents, and personal mentorship, and community intellectual climate, a singularly em- friends who have supported fi nancial support, and continue its commit- powering liberal arts education, and aid, Career Advancement, and other ment to the city of Chicago through the practical guidance and experience College programs. UChicago Promise. to succeed in any career they choose,” “Success at the College should not A central element of the new com- Zimmer said. “We want to ensure that depend on where a student comes mitment is No Barriers, an innovative students of high ability can aspire to from or on family income, but on the photography by robert kozloff robert by photography

A scholarship for Chicago Public Schools students and a no-loan aid package allowed Nushrat Jahan, ’18, to a„ end the College. university of chicago medicine and biological sciences

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UChicagoJournal_v19.indd 18 10/28/14 2:49 PM quality of her or his ideas, and on a gift made by a College alumnus. The that helps Chicago students pursue a disciplined and imaginative dedica- Odyssey program also will expand to path to college regardless of where tion to learning,” Boyer said. “No include more support, ensuring that they attend. The program provides ap- Barriers will enable students from all low-income students benefit fully from plication workshops for students and backgrounds to gain access to the Core the College’s extensive opportunities. high school counselors and mentoring and to the other educational traditions “The Odyssey Scholarship was programs to help students apply to the of the University of Chicago that have truly a blessing,” saysSafiya Johnson, colleges of their choice. yielded so many creative and bold an Odyssey Scholar who graduated UChicago Promise also will contin- thinkers over the generations.” in June 2014. “It gave me freedoms I ue the University’s extensive efforts The University of Chicago Cam- knew I could not have if I had to work to prepare Chicago Public Schools paign, which launched on October 29, while in school. Thanks to the Odys - students for success in the colleges of will provide crucial support for all of sey Scholarships, I was able to not their choice, including the Upward the program components. only graduate from the University of Bound program for South Side high The Odyssey Scholarships were cre- Chicago with a college degree but also school students and the Collegiate ated in 2008 as a pioneering effort to with very little debt.” Scholars program, aimed at helping reduce or eliminate loans for students Students from the city of Chicago talented CPS students gain admission from families with limited incomes, will continue to benefit from UChica- and succeed at highly selective colleg- with support from an anonymous go Promise, a program created in 2012 es around the nation.—Mary Abowd

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language lessons around them. Participants Babies from diverse in the Home Microbiome neighborhoods—who hear Project, led by Argonne and other languages in the park, UChicago microbiologist on the bus, in the grocery Jack Gilbert, swabbed their store—are more apt to hands, feet, and noses daily be open-minded in their to collect microbial samples, social learning. In a study and also sampled doorknobs, in the November Cognition, light switches, floors, and UChicago psychology countertops. DNA analyses of researchers tested 19-month- the microbes’ species revealed olds’ openness to learning how powerfully people from someone who did not colonize their surroundings. speak their native language. When families moved, within In a series of experiments, a day the new house looked— microbially— just like the the infants, all native English Monarch butterflies’ colors come from a single gene. speakers, were asked to old one. Couples shared more imitate adults to learn new microbes than roommates, and tasks, such as pressing a button noses carried more individual time spent asleep within a and evolution researcher to turn on a light or open a samples than hands. Published single period was 7.25 hours. Marcus Kronforst led a study toy box. The researchers, August 29 in Science, the study Respondents who said they published in October in Nature psychology graduate was coauthored by UChicago wake up often during the night that illuminates the little- students Lauren Howard and graduate students Sean had more total sleep time. understood genetic sources Cristina Carrazza, AB’13, Gibbons and Simon Lax. Dissatisfaction with sleep, of the monarch’s behavior and professor Amanda the researchers concluded, and coloration. Migration Woodward, found that tight sleep may be tied to other health is considered a complex babies from multilingual An estimated 30 percent of concerns. Coauthored by action, but by sequencing and neighborhoods were more elderly Americans report sociologist Linda Waite, comparing the genomes of 101 likely to accept the visual cues having insomnia, but their psychologist Martha butterflies—from migratory from Spanish-speakers than problem may be less how McClintock, and public health and nonmigratory monarchs babies whose neighborhoods long they sleep than how sciences researchers Diane S. and related species— photography by robert kozloff robert by photography are more homogenous. well. Analyzing data from Lauderdale, AM’78, AM’81, Kronforst’s team identified more than 700 participants and Ronald A. Thisted, the one gene that influenced the microbe, my self in a national survey who study was published online muscle efficiency necessary After six weeks of following answered questions and wore September 8 in Journals of to fly long distances. Another seven families in their wristwatch-like sensors that Gerontology: Medical Sciences. gene has a similar effect on homes—18 people, three monitored their sleep patterns coloration. A genetic mutation dogs, and one cat—UChicago and movements, UChicago butterflies and rainbows in a small percentage of the microbiologists have a researchers found surprising Single genes appear to be butterflies prevents pigment better understanding of results. The wristwatch responsible for the monarch from reaching the wings, the interaction between actigraph data showed the butterfly’s capacity for leaving them white instead of humans and the millions average sleep period lasted migration and its colorful orange.—Kathryn Vandervalk,

university of chicago medicine and biologicaland sciences millions of microbes 7.9 hours and that the average pigmentation. Ecology ’16, and Jason Kelly

the university of chicago magazine | nov–dec 2014 19 rockefeller chapel He tells them that the chapel is a and a member of the chorus. He met his place of application as much as theory: wife, katherine Steffes Dean, AB’01, organ scholars learning to play, aspir- in Rockefeller’s choir stands. And ing carillonneurs training on a practice while still an undergraduate he helped Grace note keyboard in the basement, artwork found a Russian folk choir on campus, and sculptures constantly being main- New to Rockefeller Chapel’s staff, Golosa, with whom he has toured Sibe- tained, prayer services, yoga, medita- ria (and for which he learned to speak Matthew Dean, AB’00, has long tion. Students who honed their voices passable Russian and write in Cyrillic). inhabited its world of song. at Rockefeller sometimes go on to pro- “I love singing and singing people, and fessional singing careers. “So, there’s a UChicago is alive with it,” he says. On a windy afternoon in late August, figural ivory tower in the rest of cam - Rockefeller dean elizabeth Daven- Matthew Dean, AB’00, stood outside pus, and this is the actual tower, but it’s port explains what he means: singing Rockefeller Chapel’s west chancel a very applied place.” in a choral group, she says, can shape doorway, looking up at a small stone Dean’s first attachment to Rock- a whole life. “There is something pulpit built into the outer wall. Inside efeller was singing: as a kid from the about using your own body, your the chapel, the organ was being tuned suburbs whose high school choir oc- voice, which is inside you, to produce for the summer convocation, and long, casionally performed on campus and, this incredible purity of sound, with low notes wailed through the sanctuary. later, a College student drawn to what however many other people, 20 other Out here, though, the air fell quiet. he calls a “musical lifeway,” which he people, 30 other people. And together The outdoor pulpit—tucked into a cor- found at Rockefeller. A sixth-grade you do something that none of you ner, easily missed—is a minor fascina- field trip to the Oriental Institute con- can do apart.” She taps the desk with tion for Dean, who has spent much of vinced Dean he wanted to be an archae- her hand as if it were a tuning fork and the past 20 years in and around Rock- ologist, and that interest stuck through hums a high note. “When you sing an efeller, as a student and a singer and an anthropology major and a couple A, there’s something inside your lar- now as a staff member. years of graduate work in art history, ynx that vibrates 440 times a second,” The pulpit is a bit of an artifact. “The but the chapel was where his calling she says. “To know that, and to do that chapel had all sorts of additional spaces was really rooted. with 30 other people who also know and buildings planned in the architec- A tenor, he sang in multiple chapel how to do this, and to create music that tural drawings,” Dean says, including choirs in the College, as both a soloist could be a thousand years old—I mean, a cloistered area for outdoor ceremo- nies and services. “And then they ran into the Great Depression.” The pul- pit was the only part that got built. It looks out now on a parking lot and a grassy expanse leading to the Oriental Institute. It would be nice, Dean says, to find a way to make regular use of it. Landscape this corner and hold medita- tions or small services. Something. It doesn’t take much of a nudge to get a guided tour of Rockefeller’s nooks and crannies from Dean, who became director of chapel operations in April, a job that for him seems more like com- ing home than going to work. He does everything from overseeing building projects, like repairs at Bond Chapel and the spiritual life center’s relocation to Ida Noyes, to helping organize the chapel’s busy roster of programs and events. Occasionally he takes visitors barlich anthony by photography up the tower’s 271 winding steps to see the carillon keyboard, jangling keys as he leads them through doorway after tiny doorway, across the wooden cat- walk above the sanctuary’s false ceil- ing, through the clock room where a mechanism (currently disconnected) can sound the quarter and hour chimes, and then past the largest of the carillon

bells, weighing more than 18 tons. Dean (center, with beard) rehearses with his choir mates on a Sunday morning. photography by stephen travarca/cleveland clinic

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UChicagoJournal_v18.indd 20 10/28/14 8:57 AM we sing Hildegard of Bingen—it exposes students to an extraordinary joy.” Since 2005 Dean has held the title artist in residence at Rockefeller. He sings there every Sunday—he’s one of the skeleton crew when the choir thins in the summer—and at ceremonies like the August convocation for which the organ was being tuned. Before putting on his robe and heading up to the sanc- tuary for the procession, he and several others sat around a table in the chapel basement, rehearsing for a CD record- ing of James Kallembach’s St. John Passion. UChicago director of choral activities, Kallembach has conducted the Bach oratorio a few times; he com- posed the new version for Rockefell- er’s 2014 Palm Sunday service. Dean also performs with a half dozen other choral groups throughout the city, including early music groups charis eng was practicing translational medicine before it was a term. Bella Voce and Schola Antiqua, and the Rookery, a professional men’s choir he cofounded in 2011. On November 16 genetics woman in a sea of men, spawned her he’ll be in Rockefeller, singing as part interest in the grape. In England the of the Sounds of Faith concert, an an - drinking culture was huge, she says. nual interfaith event started in 2009 by “The old boys wouldn’t even collabo- anesthesiologist shakeela Hassan, a Permutate rate with me if I didn’t know my wine.” UChicago associate professor emerita. So she began reading Wine Spectator Charis Eng, AB’82, PhD’86, MD’88, As program director of Hassan’s foun- and going to free wine tastings at local dation, Harran Productions, Dean discovers key genetic markers shops on Saturdays. “So, I’d read and helps put together the concert. linking cancer and autism. taste. After one year, they said, ‘Boy, When he has a few minutes free, you’re so good we want to invite you to Dean sometimes heads to Rockefeller’s Some people have trophies; geneticist the wine committee.’ That’s the com- choral library, another hidden corner. charis eng, AB’82, PhD’86, MD’88, mittee that picks wines for the college. It’s upstairs, behind the balcony, a nar- has empty wine bottles arranged on a It’s a huge deal. Unfortunately, they row slant-roofed room with a rolling high shelf in her office at Cleveland tasted on Mondays at 10 a.m. But I’m wooden ladder and shelves packed floor Clinic’s Lerner Research Institute. like, I’m in the middle of my work!” to ceiling with binders containing the The budget-minded Seaview Brut An effervescent presence in the chapel’s musical history. The archives and Roeder Estate hark back to the church-like halls of Lerner Research go back to the building’s construction late 1990s, when Eng and her col - Institute, Eng has made a name for in 1928. “These are all the choral and leagues at Dana-Farber Cancer Insti- herself with her discoveries of sev- instrumental scores for major works tute toasted her discoveries around eral key genetic links to Cowden syn- that have been done here over time,” PTEN, a gene linked to a tumor-caus- drome, a disease characterized by the Dean says: for Messiahs and Bach ora- ing disease called Cowden syndrome. spread of benign tumors. torios ordered from European publish- “We were poor then,” says Eng, the Cowden patients with the PTEN ing houses in the 1920s, octavos used by chair and founding director of the mutation have much higher incidences the Rockefeller Chapel Choir, the Mo- Cleveland Clinic’s Genomic Medi- of colon, thyroid, and breast cancers. tet Choir, and the University Chorus. cine Institute, with a twinkle behind In the 1990s Eng discovered the first photography by anthony barlich anthony by photography “We have copies of all the programming her silver-rimmed glasses. PTEN gene mutation associated with that’s happened here going back forev- Rouge Homme 1985, an elusive Cowden. Later she and her research er,” he says, opening up a convocation claret, was poured in honor of findings team found that patients with the program from 1948. “And then weekly on RET, another tumor-related gene. PTEN mutation and an epigenetic Sunday services, who was at the pulpit, Eventually, confesses Eng, “we pub- alteration called KILLIN have even what pieces were performed that day, lished so many papers that I stopped higher cancer risks. translations, organ recitals.” this. I said, ‘If we drank a bottle every Eng’s findings have led to early “I’ve lost a lot of time in here,” Dean time we published a paper, we’d be screening for Cowden patients who says. And yet, as in much of Rockefell- drunk all the time.’” carry the PTEN or KILLIN muta- er, time not only vanishes in this room Postdoc work at the University of tions. For instance, thyroid cancer

photography by stephen travarca/clevelandbut clinic also abides.—Lydialyle Gibson Cambridge, where Eng was the lone tends to show up in PTEN patients at

the university of chicago magazine | nov–dec 2014 21 the University of Chicago Laboratory astronomy Schools, where she caught the genet- ics bug from biology teacher Murray Hozinsky. Her father had to return to Singapore after two and a half years, Following but she managed to stay in the United States by dropping out of Lab early and starting in the College at age 16. the stars Professor michael Blackstone, “a For Jesuit priest Paul Mueller, man so smart he frightens chairmen of medicine,” taught her the complex- SM’96, PhD’06, the same source ities of tumor-causing syndromes. “I reveals scripture and nature. said ‘Oh boy, these lumps and bumps, the crystal structure of a PTEN gene. they seem to affect every layer of the In his senior year at Boston University, germ cells,’” she recalls. “And so it Paul mueller, SM’96, PhD’06, was must be a very important gene not “flipping coins” to decide between two a much younger age than in the gener- only for cancer development” but for paths. One led to the Jesuits and taking al population. “With our recent 2012 normal development as well. “And holy orders; the other led to a doctorate study, the youngest age of thyroid can- in retrospect, the PTEN gene is vital in physics. cer is six years old,” says Eng. “So the for human development.” That’s why The Jesuits won out, but Mueller’s moment you find a PTEN mutation, when it mutates it not only gives rise to work covers both sides of the coin. He we start screening the thyroid.” cancers but is associated with autism, currently serves as the religious supe- Back in the bargain-wine days of her a neurodevelopmental disorder. rior and a member of the research staff career, Eng had a tough time landing re- In 1999 Eng was recruited to lead at the Vatican Observatory. search funding. “As [UChicago oncolo- the human genetics division of Ohio As a priest in training, he earned gist] Funmi olopade herself said, I was State University’s internal medicine three master’s degrees over 11 years (in a translational investigator before the department. A few years later, she philosophy, theology, and divinity) be- word ‘translation’ came into being,” began noticing that a significant num- fore being ordained. Throughout Muel- she says. Translational medicine is an ber of patients in her Cowden cohort ler’s religious training, his superiors interdisciplinary approach to research there had children with autism. So encouraged him to go back into science. where findings in the lab don’t exist in she “called up all my friends who are “When someone’s capable of doctoral a vacuum but are closely linked with developmental pediatricians”—this is studies,” he says, “they tend to give the clinical observation and improving the sort of collaboration that fuels her push and support to do it.” patient care. The National Institutes research—and asked for tissue samples He acted on their encouragement, but of Health “kept saying ‘Where’s your on their autistic patients. She found his interests had shifted. “By that time, mouse model?’ I don’t care. I’m look- that 10 percent of patients with autism Jesuit training had ruined my mind ing at the patients. … They couldn’t and large head circumference had the with philosophy and theology to the get their heads around that.” Her first PTEN mutation. point where I didn’t want to do straight funder was the American Cancer Soci- Eng’s finding, along with research physics anymore,” Mueller says. So he ety (she’s an ACS professor now) and by others into a disease called tuber- enrolled in UChicago’s Conceptual and then others came around. ous sclerosis, in August 2014 resulted Historical Studies of Science program. Sitting at a round table in her office, in partial funding from the National He earned a fourth master’s degree amid a smattering of gifts from col- Institutes of Health for a clinical trial (this one in physics, a requirement for leagues over the years—glass animal of a tumor-suppressing drug in autistic the UChicago program) before com- figurines and pillows embroidered children who have the PTEN mutation. pleting his doctorate in the philosophy with goofy sayings—Eng says she Eng arrived at the Cleveland Clinic of science in 2006. After a stint teaching learned the importance of connecting in 2005, on the condition that she philosophy at Loyola University, Muel- with patients from growing up around could start a genetics institute where ler was appointed in 2010 to his post at her “number one uncle,” the personal physicians and scientists interact the Vatican Observatory. He did not physician of the founding prime min- across disciplines. “Most places have seek out the assignment, but his Jesuit ister of Singapore. He made rounds a small cancer genetics initiative in superior who had the final say consulted every day, even off days. She did the the cancer center,” she says. “Then him before making the decision. same as an internal medicine physician they have pediatrics balkanized away, In 1891 Pope Leo XIII founded the and oncologist. “My patients loved it,” then they have prenatal balkanized modern incarnation of the Vatican Ob- she says. “There’s none of ‘Oh, the away. And nobody talks.” She wanted servatory, which served to mitigate the regular doctor’s not here.’ Horrible a broad platform of genetics for every- Catholic Church’s image as antiscience things happen on weekends.” one: science, clinical work, education. and antimodernity after the papacy of

When she was a teen, Eng’s fam- “The original searching was just for Pius IX. First in Rome, the observa - pd-usgov ily moved to the United States so her a basic science department. I said, ‘Let tory later moved to Castel Gandolfo, father, Soo Peck Eng, PhD’72, could me show you my vision. Can I do this?’ the papal summer retreat outside the

work on his doctorate. She enrolled in And they said yes.”—Laura Putre city. In 1993 the observatory built a observatory vatican courtesty photo

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UChicagoJournal_v18.indd 22 10/28/14 8:54 AM more modern telescope at an Arizona staff members live, as “simple, func- staff have fielded numerous questions facility it had founded in 1981, while tional, and homey.” As the observato- over the years, including whether the still maintaining the Castel Gandolfo ry’s religious superior, Mueller oversees observatory is “where the pope goes to site. At both locations, the observatory the staff’s home and spiritual life, a role talk to the aliens.” The director, Guy staff, all Jesuit priests or brothers with he likens to being a house mother. “I Consolmagno, was asked on a radio PhDs, carries out research in planetary supervise the cook, make sure they get show, “Would you baptize an extrater- astronomy and cosmology, in addition vacations, and make sure they’re pray- restrial?” Consolmagno and Mueller to running a biennial summer school for ing,” he says. “And if they get in a fight drew on such questions for their book, international students. I’m the referee.” fittingly titled Would You Baptize an “Supporting a search for truth,” While Mueller doesn’t find the sci- Extraterrestrial? ... and Other Questions Mueller says, is a defining principle for ence and religion that intersect at the from the Astronomers’ In-box at the Vatican the church, whether it’s at the obser- observatory incompatible, others don’t Observatory (Image, 2014). (The short vatory or at Catholic universities that quite know what to make of it. Any answer: “Only if he asks.”) date back centuries. “It’s actually in conflict, as far as Mueller is concerned, They’re not dumb questions, Muel- the founding document of the observa- is between fundamentalists on both ler says. “They’re questions where the tory that it’s important for the Catholic sides—and that’s “bad religion and bad premise is not right. We try to back off Church to be showing its goodwill and science.” Instead, he argues, religion the question and premises and shift to active participation in the world of sci- and science are complementary: “We’re a better and deeper question.” They ence out of respect for the fact that it is a made to search for the truth, and science cover topics from Galileo to the star of search for the truth.” is part of that.” Bethlehem to contradictions between Mueller describes the remodeled The search for truth can lead to cu- the Genesis story and the big bang Castel Gandolfo monastery, where all rious notions about the nature of spiri- theory. Publishers Weekly calls the result the observatory’s full-time research tuality and the universe. Observatory “absolutely enlightening.” Mueller finds enlightening thought prevalent in the long history of religious dialogue with science. His research, an outgrowth of his doctoral dissertation, focuses on the dawn of the modern scientific method in the 17th century. Scholars at that time, many of whom were clergy, used empirical methods that had been pioneered in the study of old manuscripts and applied them to the natural world. This early science “looks very mod- ern, in the sense of being very empirical and mathematical, but also looks very strange to us in terms of how they select and combine empirical observations,” Mueller says. “The typical explanation is to say, ‘Oh, they had some kind of re- ligious ideology blinding them.’ I don’t think that’s right; I think there was a whole different logic going on.” Part of the logic underlying the Vati- can Observatory’s work dates back much further, to a theory of St. Augustine’s that Pope John Paul II called “the unity of truth.” Mueller describes it as “faith that, at the end of time, when finally we will be able to understand the world fully and to interpret the Bible correctly, we will find that there is no disagreement -be tween science and faith.” Any perceived conflict, he adds, reflects our incomplete understanding of each. “If God is the author of both books,

pd-usgov scripture and nature, and God doesn’t disagree with God, once we understand them both well, they ain’t going to dis-

photo courtesty vatican observatory vatican courtesty photo Johannes Hagen directed the Vatican Observatory in the early 20th century. agree.”—Benjamin Recchie, AB’03

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UChicagoJournal_v18.indd 23 10/28/14 8:55 AM FIG. 1 SPINE TINGLING

Spinosaurus in swimming pose, with known bones in red

Anterior dorsal vertebra Dorsal neural spine (three views) Left upper pelvic bone Nostril groove

Mid-caudal vertebra (two views) graphic courtesy nizar ibrahim, paul sereno, et al; adapted by joy olivia miller olivia joy by adapted al; et sereno, paul ibrahim, nizar courtesy graphic

Claw-bearing toe from Small openings the right rear foot (three for neurovascular Phalanx from a toe Left femur Right tibia views) structures on the right front foot (three views)

Paleontologists have long Nizar Ibrahim and professor Paul paddling. Those limb adaptations wondered: where are the dinosaurs Sereno, the paper details fi ndings resemble early whales. that swam? Not just those that of Spinosaurus aegyptiacus, For Spinosaurus, this is a second waded in and fi shed prey out of the a semiaquatic Cretaceous-era coming. A century ago, German shallows, but ones that actually carnivore from North Africa. It is paleontologist Ernst Freiherr lived in the water? One common also the largest predatory dinosaur Stromer von Reichenbach found view held that they simply didn’t ever found—at least 50 feet long, the fi rst evidence of the dinosaur, exist: the fossils in museums and Spinosaurus outmeasures even but his fossils were destroyed in textbooks all belong to terrestrial Tyrannosaurus rex fossils. Among World War II. His notes, sketches, dinosaurs. But in September, a its aquatic adaptations were and photos survived, and the Science paper put forward evidence curved, bladelike claws for hooking researchers used them to link of the fi rst swimming dinosaur ever slippery prey; dense bones that Stromer’s original discovery to a identifi ed. Coauthored by a team aided underwater swimming; and new partial skeleton unearthed in of researchers that included two a small pelvis and short hind legs the Moroccan Sahara.

UChicago paleontologists, postdoc with muscular thighs, good for —Minna Ja ery, ’15 photography by robert kozloff

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UChicagoJournal_v19.indd 24 10/28/14 3:20 PM INTERVIEW Inquiring minds Neuroscientist John Maunsell leads a new institute’s research into the mysteries of the brain.

From how the brain processes pain to those used by the brain to con- why it becomes diseased to the origins trol muscle actions, or it might of consciousness, questions remain require quite distinct mecha- about virtually all of its structures and nisms. Emotions, reward, fear, functions. To begin to answer these pain—all of these are critical to questions, the University of Chicago our social interactions and sur- has launched the Grossman Institute vival, but the mechanisms that for Neuroscience, Quantitative Biol- generate those experiences ogy, and Human Behavior. are poorly understood. John Maunsell, editor in chief of the Journal of Neuroscience and a former More brain power Harvard University professor, came We’ve suddenly got so many to UChicago in July as the institute’s powerful tools that we were only founding director. In an interview dreaming of 10 to 20 years ago. We’ve Understanding the brain will have with UChicago Medicine’s Science Life got new molecular and cellular methods other far-reaching consequences. For blog, edited and adapted below, Maun- that make it possible to identify and dis- example, on the computational side, sell discusses the new frontiers of neu- tinguish different classes of brain cells. there isn’t a facial recognition system roscience.—Kevin Jiang We have multielectrode devices where today that does half as well as any hu- you can record from hundreds or thou- man. It seems that recognizing a face Human behavior and the brain sands of cells electrically. New optical should be a straightforward problem, In a very real sense all neuroscience is methods sound almost like science fi c- but the human brain integrates sensory about human behavior. That includes tion. By genetically engineering neu- information in ways that we don’t yet graphic courtesy nizar ibrahim, paul sereno, et al; adapted by joy olivia miller olivia joy by adapted al; et sereno, paul ibrahim, nizar courtesy graphic not only experiments that directly rons to make fluorescent molecules, fathom. Once we do, and then translate measure the limits of human perfor- we can monitor the electrical activity this understanding for computers and mance but also studies of the thousands of hundreds of brain cells at once by diagnostic systems and logical systems, of individual circuits and structures detecting the light they emit. Even it’s going to be transformational. that make up the brain. This includes more powerfully, we can focus light on Even fi elds like law will be affect- the nuts and bolts—the specialized them to change their electrical activity ed. A lot of what goes on in courts in- molecules that make up brain cells and and look at how the animal’s behavior volves attempting to understand the the genetics that support the brain’s de- changes. And we can analyze the new mental state of someone who’s com- velopment and its amazing capacity to data with computational approaches mitted a crime. In civil cases, there’s a learn throughout our lives. that were unimaginable just a short huge amount of focus on pain and suf- Human behavior can be viewed as time ago. fering. These assessments seem sub- the ultimate challenge for neurosci- jective and squishy, but we’re talking ence. We won’t understand the brain Potential neuro knowledge about biological mechanisms that can until we can explain how it allows us to We are eventually going to understand be measured and understood in objec- reach, grasp, walk, and run gracefully. the control of behavior. We’re going to tive ways if we really know what we Standing up and walking seem simple understand emotion, and we’re going to are dealing with. and uninvolved, but it took you a year understand mental disease, including and a half of practicing every day before devastating conditions such as schizo- The ultimate question you could do them even moderately phrenia, Alzheimer’s, depression, and Learning how our perceptions, feel- well. And after decades of effort, we other impairments that we have no ings, and ideas can emerge from the still haven’t made robots that perform mechanistic understanding of at the mo- combined activity of billions of indi- half as well as any toddler. ment. Virtually everyone has someone vidual brain cells will profoundly ad- Human behavior also includes cogni- in their extended family who is affected vance our understanding of who we tion. How do we make decisions or do by mental disorders. These are terrible are. There’s an answer to the question mental calculations? Cognition might diseases that touch what a person is, but of consciousness and it’s going to come arise from computations similar to they’re not beyond our understanding. from neuroscience, eventually. photography by robert kozloff

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t says nine to six. It should be open right now.” One purpose of all this is to map the resources in a part On a Wednesday morning in mid-July, 18-year- of the city that doesn’t have enough of them. That data can old Jimmy Galmore stands on the sidewalk at 79th be put to use in lots of ways by researchers, policy mak- Street and Prairie Avenue on Chicago’s South ers, and community development advocates. And, maybe Side, squinting through a locked security gate into most importantly, by neighborhood residents themselves. a dark and empty Allstate insurance office. It’s a MAPSCorps cofounder and principal investigator Stacy little after 10 a.m., and the heat of the day is still Tessler Lindau, AM’02, a UChicago gynecologist, uses gathering. Behind him, traffic rumbles by. the information to connect her patients with goods and “Can you see anything?” asks Stephanie Short, services they need to stay healthy. Along with regular pre- AB’13, holding a piece of paper with a grid of scriptions, she and other UChicago doctors are starting to addresses. hand out what’s called a HealtheRx, a printed inventory, “Not really.” tailored to each patient’s location and needs, listing places “OK. There’s a phone number; let’s call.” where they can go to find fresh produce or physical exercise, iGalmore reads out the digits, and Short dials. No an- mental-health counseling, social support, job training, food swer. But voice mail picks up, identifying the office as an pantries, financial advice, after-school programs. (The data Allstate location. “OK,” says Short, “so put ‘unsure.’” Now is also available online in its entirety at healtherx.com.) “I she’s talking to Dajia Dampeer, also 18, who’s tapping the see a real disparity between how visible the Loop is, or Lin- information into a smartphone. “The number’s still work- coln Park, and how visible the South Side of Chicago is on ing and by and large the exterior still looks OK. So I would mainstream media like Google,” Lindau says. Businesses say, ‘closed when it’s supposed to be open but may be OK; and organizations serving low-income neighborhoods of- number still working.’” ten can’t afford advertising or websites and don’t show up Short makes a mark beside one of the addresses on her in online searches or lists of resources. “And if they’re not paper, and the group moves on to the storefront next door— visible, then they’re as good as nonexistent,” Lindau says. “I Branch of Divine Outreach Ministries, with a bright red sign as a physician cannot refer my patient to a counseling center and shuttered blinds—inching their way east toward Cot- that I don’t know about and that my patient can’t find.” tage Grove, where they’ll turn south toward 92nd Street. At a conference on urban data back in March, Lindau This is the slow, careful work of MAPSCorps, a project of described the “moral distress” of a doctor who diagnoses a the University of Chicago Medicine’s Urban Health Initia- patient with diabetes and writes a prescription for insulin tive that each summer teams up dozens of local high school- but can’t offer specific information on where to fill that pre- ers with University students and recent grads to walk the South Side—and now the West Side—block by block, neigh- borhood by neighborhood, gathering data on every public and commercial entity they find: every church and park and the project has school, every organization and community center, every corner store and fast-food restaurant and beauty salon and mapped more than home-based daycare. Using a smartphone app, the students record locations’ names, addresses, phone numbers, and other basic information, and they make note of whether each 35 neighborhoods on appears to be open and operating. Later, professional sur- veyors follow up with phone calls and site visits to verify ex- the south and west actly what goods and services are available inside each place. Funded largely by a grant from the Department of Health sides, collecting and Human Services’ Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, MAPSCorps launched in 2009 and is a collabora- information on tion with the UChicago Survey Lab. The project is an annual census. Each summer the stu- dents update the previous year’s information and add new more than 16,000 territory. To date the project has mapped more than 35 neighborhoods on the South and West Sides, collecting businesses across information on more than 16,000 businesses across about 106 square miles. 106 square miles.

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scription in the patient’s own neighborhood, or where to you’re coming from that ivory tower over there. And you’re go for the healthy diet and exercise also necessary to keep a medical doctor. And for all those reasons, your assump- a diabetic out of trouble. “I talk about the Physicians’ Desk tions about what it means to be healthy cannot possibly Reference, which is a book this thick of all the drugs in the align with my assumptions as a community member, as a world,” Lindau says, holding her hands a foot apart. “And black woman, as an expert of the neighborhood.” it’s updated every year. Why don’t we have the physicians’ The woman was angry, and she was standing with her fin- community reference? Why don’t we have the equivalent ger raised. Listening, Lindau realized the woman was right: quality of information for all those resources that people “We should not make assumptions about what we think is need to be healthy and live their lives?” health.” So Lindau began searching for a broader definition She stops. “I don’t mean that to be a rhetorical question,” than what medical science offered. She landed on the one she says. “And whatever the answer is, it shouldn’t be so.” used by the World Health Organization: health not just as the absence of disease or infirmity but as social and mental well- being too. “Where we live, learn, work, play, how we age,” ix years ago, when MAPSCorps was still an inten- Lindau says. “All of these things are what make us healthy.” tion in search of a concrete idea—“use science to im- And jobs—especially for young people. In all those early prove health on the South Side” was part of Lindau’s meetings, there was an urgent sense that without jobs there S broad directive from the Urban Health Initiative— could be no health in a community. And when Lindau and Lindau and the project’s other cofounders began holding other MAPSCorps cofounders asked for suggestions about meetings with neighborhood leaders and residents. They how to shape the project, they kept hearing one thing, re- wanted some guidance; they wanted to make sure they didn’t peatedly, from different people on different days in differ- spend time and money on something less than effective. ent neighborhoods: find a way to involve the kids. That’s how Those encounters provided some crystallizing moments. to change the trajectory of neighborhood health. “That was At one meeting in Hyde Park, a woman challenged Lindau their number one stipulation,” Lindau says. “And I remember on the concept of wellness. “Your definition of health, Dr. the day where this was said for the first time. I remember it Lindau, is not my definition of health.” That’s how Lindau being a stop-in-your-shoes sort of moment.” remembers the quote. She was the only white person in the The high schoolers who make up the vast majority of the room that night. “And what I heard the woman saying was: MAPSCorps workforce out in the field are as central to the you’re white and I’m black; you don’t look like me. And project’s purpose as the data they gather. They’re South

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UCH_Mapscorps_v5.indd 4 10/27/14 3:46 PM Siders too, who spend eight weeks mapping some of their savings!”). A tailor, a florist, a clothing boutique, a barber- own streets, taking a close and sustained look, sometimes shop on the corner where everyone inside is singing with for the first time, at the neighborhoods where they grew up the radio. They see empty storefronts, a vacant lot. The (it’s an experience that some choose to repeat, coming back group spends several minutes in front of a tax service, try- for more than one summer). Some days the students are giv- ing to determine whether it’s bolted shut just for the season en additional assignments, to take pictures of objects that or for good. They ask a man standing in another doorway if are harmful or beneficial to the community—potholes, a the air-conditioner repair shop next door is ever open. He box of cigarettes, a planter full of flowers—or to approach shrugs. “They keep strange hours,” he reports. Dampeer residents with set questions about the health of the neigh- notices that they don’t see many health clinics or grocery borhood. “We ask them, like, ‘Do you feel like your neigh- stores or bookstores. “A lot of churches,” says Galmore. borhood is safe?’ Or, what is their definition of success for People notice the students. They’re hard to miss in their a neighborhood?” Dampeer says. Some people talk; some matching turquoise T-shirts with “MAPSCorps” printed people don’t. “There are some people who are willing to across the front (in designing them, the project team was talk and just give their whole life story.” careful to choose colors that wouldn’t get students mistaken “At the end of the session, the high schoolers begin to for gang members or immigration officers). Some people say think about neighborhood in a way they didn’t before,” says hello—a woman rushing two children across the street, a man UChicago pediatrician Daniel Johnson, LAB’73, another sweeping up trash with a broom and a snow shovel. An old MAPSCorps cofounder. “They begin to talk almost like man in a pressed yellow suit and a white fedora tips his hat. a community development person. Because they begin to Others just stare. When the group stops into a coffee shop at talk about what’s in their neighborhood.” 79th and Calumet for brownies and iced coffee, the owner comes out from behind the counter and buttonholes Galmore. What is MAPSCorps? She wants to know. He explains the eading down 79th Street in the Chatham neigh- project, tells her what the acronym stands for: Meaningful borhood and turning south on Cottage Grove, Active Productive Science in service to communities. She Galmore, Dampeer—both from Wrightwood- asks what grade he’s in, whether he’s going to college. He and h Ashburn, a couple of neighborhoods to the west— Dampeer are both high school graduates who are starting col- and Short, who now works for the Survey Lab, pass beauty lege this fall, he at Roosevelt University and she at Denison supply stores and storefront churches, nail salons, chop University. The coffee shop owner smiles. “Good,” she says. suey joints, wireless stores, and corner stores selling food, liquor, and clothing. A McDonald’s, Larry’s Barber Col- lege, First Come First Serve General Merchandise (“great his past summer, MAPSCorps employed 90 teenag- ers (hired through a nonprofit called After School Matters) to fan out across the South Side. This year T they also broached the West Side; eventually, Lindau The younger hopes to cover the whole city. The students work in teams of usually three to five, each led by a University student or young alum acting as field coordinator. They learn about data, why sTudenTs geT a TasTe it’s important, the science of gathering it properly. On Fri- days the students get a day off from mapping. Instead, if they of whaT college choose—and most do—they can congregate at Ida Noyes for workshops on issues like nutrition, finances, sexual health, mighT be like, from and sexual violence. They do yoga, they dance. Besides all of that, and besides the job, the paycheck, and practice in people who are more what it takes to stay employed—that, as Johnson says, “you come dressed a certain way, you come prepared to work, you come on time, you have a certain set schedule, you can’t leave grown up buT sTill early”—the interaction between College students and high schoolers, he adds, is good for both. The younger students young enough To Talk get a taste of what college might be like, from people who are more grown up but still young enough to talk to them as peers. To Them as peers. UChicago students, meanwhile, learn about the South Side,

30 the university of chicago magazine | nov–dec 2014 to finish her education, she might not have. Curie worried, Lindau says, about “people who came from poor countries, young people especially, with brilliant minds that would go wasted be- cause they were undiscovered. That there were scientists everywhere, regardless of class or up- bringing, and that the scientific mind could go undiscovered and that the risk of this would be even higher in low-income communities, strug- gling communities. That really spoke to me. I share that concern.” Lindau knows that to many, perhaps most, of the high schoolers she calls scientists, the title may not mean much. Asked at the orientation session to raise their hands and explain why they’d joined MAPSCorps, students said they needed money for gas, or to buy shoes, or to save for tuition. Trudeau and mapper Octavius Tidwell sort the day’s cases. But one student said she was interested in public health, and another wanted to be a doctor, an - other an engineer. “And so for me,” Lindau says, “MAPSCorps is in part about making sure— from people who live there and go to school there. They get a how do we make sure that the scientific minds among the glimpse of what life is like there. 860,000 people who make up the South Side of Chicago do Short seconds that observation. As a College student, she not go unnoticed? And how do we give kids, at a point when says, she ventured outside Hyde Park more than some of her their brains are still forming, the privilege of curiosity?” classmates; she had a car, and she tutored students in Engle- wood. But walking the neighborhoods offers a deeper, slower lesson, a view into the reality of South Side residents’ lives. fter Dampeer, Galmore, and Short finish the day’s Yes, the neighborhoods can be tough—on her first day out mapping assignment, they take the bus back to 79th someone tried to snatch her MAPSCorps smartphone out and Racine Avenue, to the neighborhood organiza- of her hand—but not always, and not only. It’s a complicated A tion they’ve been working out of for the past few place. “We’re all people living on this earth,” Short says. days. MAPSCorps collaborates with local groups through- out the South Side, and the Greater Auburn-Gresham De- velopment Corporation is one of many temporary home t Ida Noyes this past June, tables full of new map- bases for mapping teams. pers and field coordinators packed the first-floor Soon other MAPSCorps teams show up, returning from library for the MAPSCorps orientation session. their own assignments in the area. It’s almost 2 p.m. They A In her presentation to the group, Lindau stood at crowd around a conference room table for the day’s last work: the podium and declared them all to be scientists. “It’s im- a discussion led by field coordinatorBeth Knopf, a College portant that you know that,” she told them. “It’s important third-year, about neighborhood assets and how they “promote that you believe it.” the success of the community.” Knopf passes out Post-it notes Later, talking in her office, she says it again. “The kids and asks the dozen or so students to write down the important who are working for us this summer are acting as scientists assets they’ve come across while mapping. They offer church- for our lab. They are collecting data that we will analyze es, parks, hospitals, youth centers, block clubs, summer pro- for human good. And that makes them scientists for the grams. By far the most common answer, though, is schools. summer. So it’s true to say it, and somebody should say it.” “OK, what do schools help promote?” Knopf asks. Thinking about those high schoolers, Lindau is reminded, Several kids answer at once: “Education.” she says, of Marie Curie. “Future jobs,” another says. The famous physicist and chemist who helped pioneer “What else?” Knopf asks. the study of radioactivity grew up poor in politically op- The students consider for a moment. “Safety,” one says. pressed Poland, and if she had been less obsessively driven And then another: “Health.” ◆

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hen Matthew Thomas’s first book, come to naught, other than the pleasure I’d taken in writing We Are Not Ourselves (Simon and it. Finishing it and feeling good about it was a huge psychic Schuster), appeared in August, relief. For a while I was giddy at the thought of being done, reviewers lavished the sprawl- let alone publishing it. ing family novel with praise. The I went to Chicago on my book tour the other day, and New York Times called it a “gor- seeing it on the shelf at 57th Street Books was pretty geous epic, full of love and life and awesome. caring” and said it was one of the year’s best novels. When did you first start thinking of yourself as a writer? The reception was a surprise to I started writing “poems” (and I want you to put quotes Thomas, AB’97. For a decade, he around that word) in high school. They were the sort of had slaved over the 620-page book in his spare time while thing you write in high school. I was reading poetry at the working as an English teacher at a boys’ high school in Man- time as well, so I was certainly interested in writing good hattan.W For most of that time, he showed the draft to no one. stuff, even if I wasn’t capable yet. “I was working in the shadows,” he says. “I had no ratifica- I started writing a lot in high school, and I continued tion of my labors at all.” when I went to Chicago. I wrote poetry and short stories, The novel follows Eileen Tumulty from her working- and I was one of the editors of the Chicago Literary Review, class upbringing in Queens to her marriage to eccentric along with the poet Jennifer Kronovet [AB’98], in my sec- neuroscientist Edward Leary, who is diagnosed with Alz- ond two years. heimer’s disease at 51. Thomas first began to write seriously in high school What else did you do in college? with attempts at poetry he calls “earnest” and “fitful.” As I wrote art and theater reviews for the Maroon and did plays a UChicago undergraduate, he studied English, German, at University Theater. We would get together to rehearse, and Slavic literature with influential teachers likeWilliam and we would talk afterward at the coffee shops—some- Veeder; Richard Strier; Curt Columbus; Ian and Janel Muel- thing like a salon society, but really a bunch of friends who ler; Robert von Hallberg; Robert Pippin; David Powelstock; were in plays together. It was my major activity there, along Malynne Sternstein, AB’87, AM’90, PhD’96; Richard with the Chicago Literary Review. Stern; Edward Wasiolek; and Karl Weintraub, AB’49, AM’52, PhD’57. Each of these scholars, he says, helped to shape his thinking about literature. In an interview, edited and adapted below, Thomas re- Maybe teaching flected on his writing career and undergraduate days. helped Me over the What has life been like since the book came out? First of all, it was incredible to finish the book in the first years, because My place. I had worked on it for 10 years. I wasn’t showing it to anybody, because for the longest time I could see all its students Were a flaws myself so readily that it was pointless to show it to someone else. pretty good croWd I just held it and held it and held it as long as I could to

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Glimpses_Thomas_V4.indd 38 10/27/14 4:38 PM Do you see a connection between the great works of Russian literature you read here and We Are Not Ourselves? There’s a Russian tradition of novels that try to tell the story, not just of the individuals in the book, but also of the society from which they emerge and the period of time that birthed them. I think I learned that tradition in part by reading those books—in translation, of course. I have always had the big works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky on the mind as something to try to shoot for in the distance.

How have you changed as a writer? I’ve grown up as a person, which helps the writ - ing, certainly. The preoccupations of a young writer, I think, are very different from those of somebody even 10 years later. When I was at the beginning, I was interested in formal experimen- tation and swayed by the high modernist stuff I enjoyed reading— The Sound and the Fury, Virgin- ia Woolf’s The Waves, Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood. Maybe teaching helped me over the years, be- cause my students were a pretty good crowd of crit- ics. They’re skeptical about everything and easily Thomas learned how to get out of the story’s way. moved to frustration and impatience with books. I watched them appreciate Chekhov and Heming- way and even some of Joyce and the Russian tradi- UT was an interesting culture at the time, because there tion—they connect to storytelling and to character-driven were a lot of dedicated and often quite talented people who stuff. That was something I understood more as I got older. were acting, directing, and designing everything from Over time, I just got better at the craft. My dialogue was stage to lighting to sound, but there wasn’t an official pro- less ham-fisted. The descriptive writing was more pointed, gram or a major or anything like that. necessary, scenic, and particular. I stopped writing for the Some of the people I acted with were heading toward sound of my own voice and started writing for the story professional careers. Others—Susanna Gellert [AB’99], that wanted to be told. I got out of its way. Chloe Johnston [AB’99], and Joshua Epstein [AB’97] come immediately to mind—went on to become professional What are you working on now? directors and designers. It was a pretty fecund time for a At the very moment, nothing because I’m on tour. But an- theater nerd. other novel. Another character-driven novel about a fami- ly—a totally different kind of family. This one I hope won’t Which faculty members influenced you as a student? take me 10 years. William Veeder taught me how to read critically and sensi- tively. He taught me how to think as a reader, which was What was it like to be back on campus? fundamental to thinking as a writer. He has an extraordi - I went with a friend down to campus the other day. School narily gifted sensitivity to the nuances of writing. I shudder hadn’t started yet, so there was a possible feeling in my mind to imagine what would have been without his influence—it that I was in the place that I had been in. There weren’t that was that profound. many students around, so I was populating it in my mind Richard Strier, who is a luminary, and had such a wonder- with the characters I remembered. It was nice to do that, to ful sense of humor, and brought these difficult texts down come at that moment, because I could still see it as the place to a level of immediate comprehension for us with extraor - I was walking around in as a student. What I found amazing dinary ease. These world-class scholars are teaching under- is that gestalt sense you get of a place that’s really just a spiri- grads with just as much dedication as they would, if not more tual sense of what the place is like that told me that this was than they would, an average grad course. You’re getting the the same place. There might be all these new buildings, but greatest outpouring of these tremendous minds at the age of the soul of the place has been preserved. I was so gratified to

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French illustrators of World War I depicted the arena, the enemy, and the home front with bravura.

In Louis Lefèvre’s Rondes glorieuses, “Sur le pont” juxtaposes the French children’s song “Sur le pont d’Avignon” with a scene of soldiers crossing a plank over a battlefield trench. illu#tration 10/28/14 12:17 PM BATTLEby laur a demansk i, am’94 LINES - - ◆

Every country involved in the war, of course, had its own chroniclers in words and images. For Edel stein and Harris, French illustration stands“The mobilizationout. of the passion to support France and support the war effort was a great moment of creativity,” Edelstein says. And the French “had a running start” because of their investment in illus trated magazines and fashion illustration before the war, Harris adds. The exhibition, he says, is meant to suggest they “mobilized was what of their support cultural in large at power to population the keep becoming at some point a horrendous and totally operation.” crazy - told of a toy soldier who returns from war a hero.soldiera returnswartoy whofrom a toldof Histoirepetitbravesoldatd’un Some of the artists worked in stencils using bright hand coloring or in colored woodcuts, in each case with strong, simple lines. In thewrites catalog that Harris the relative crudenessmeant to carry emotional weight, to call of such attention to images “wasitself, and to tap into a fount of central memory from and that nostal particularly art, Avant-garde gia.” Europe, was “treated as a pollution and infection” during wartime, he says. With the French revulsion towardthesestyles valorization camea traditionalof andfolk styles. Allusions well—toto theFrench French Revolution, Charlemagne, history Joan abound as Arc,of and the military triumphs Louisof XIV. Swiss-born artist Swiss-born Charlotte Schallerwrote and bookstwo illustrated children’s during war. the , ------Neil Har Neil Inspiredand often ingenious, the mented the Great War a century ago, illustrators may be the most forgotten. In France, the pictures they made of life during wartime numbered in the thousands—part totalthe of mobilization energies of the and for, called conflict the that delivered. French pictures were also ephemeral. With f the artists and writers who docu who writers and artists the f En Guerre: French Illustrators and World I War One of the most lethal conflicts inhuman history, Severalobjects inaretheloanshow onfrom the cura publisher unknown, on loan from a private collection (previous page); berger-levrault, publisher, on loan from a private collection tors, who have long collected Frenchartsbooks as andwell graphicas children’s books from Europe and theUnited States. Edelstein littlehow ourcontemporaryby of was show, understanding surprised, in preparing asI War senseless a World of disaster the comes through in theartwork, theillustratorsmanywhenof even experi encedcombat,suffering some injuries imprisonment.or reallywas“Noone exempt”service,from Harris notes, “no matter how talented or important.” cially fragile. The artists’ names have largely fromfaded recognition over the decades, even in France. Butmore than 100 theof images can be seen this fall in Regensteinthe Library’s Special Collections Research Center. exhibitionan curatedEdelstein J.Teri by and ris , brings magazines, children’s and other illustrated books, calendars, and portfolios out of the library’s holdings and other public and private collections,showing off their immediacy,color, and visual force. I was War “a totalWorld calamity and absurdity and ahorror story,” saysHarris, the Prestonand Sterling Morton Professor Emeritus of History and Art His Manytory. thepictures of focus their attention away from the horrors, seizing instead on national pride, soldiersleave,on andlife thefront. homeon Another strandvilifies and parodies the enemy. Rarer work is likestarkthe linedrawings Charles of Martin, which, Edelstein says, “evoke the desolation, evoke the car nage,evoke the despair theof soldiers in the war.” labor and cheap production paper in short supply, was sometimes the norm and many of the works are espe O

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UCH_Enguerre_v5.indd 36 10/28/14 11:24 AM - , available to the troops and other readers from 1915 to 1920, was a showcase for French illustrators.Frenchmagazine“conveyedshowcaseforThe a was 1920, to 1915readers otherfromtroopsand the availableto baïonnette La , publisher unknown, on loan from a private collection (previous page); berger-levrault, publisher, on loan from a private collection special collections research center, university of chicago library (left); gift of neil harris and teri j. edelstein satiricalweeklyThe its takeon thewar visually, withno photographs voted to the work and of very Paul Iribe,little whotext,” later writes worked inEdelstein Hollywood in withthe catalog. Cecil B. DeMille. Each issue “Élégances had a theme. berlinoises” “La danse macabre” by Fabien Fabiano(left) is de mocks German fashion sense.

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UCH_Enguerre_v5.indd 37 10/28/14 11:25 AM . Each ally is depicted as Le bouquet des alliés des bouquet Le In 1915 Robert Bonfils published a set of six postcards, six of Robertset Bonfils published1915 a In bug, a Threatened rose. by a as France and tulip, a thistle, Belgium as a England as above, flower: a andefendedGerman caterpillarpickelhaube, by thewearingisorbloom snake, eachfrog, spider, Edelstein Writes details. other or uniform his by recognizable is nationality whose soldier insect catalog, uniting the most disparatethese “Bonfilsproblem the of countriesthe solved in has in imaginative combiningway, them in a bouquet of blooms, their diversity only enhancing the harmony of the whole.” publisher unknown, on loan from richard cheek

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UCH_Enguerre_v5.indd 38 10/28/14 11:26 AM . Each ally is depicted as - Le bouquet des alliés des bouquet Le , documents the war. La manière française manière La depicts five French citizens doing their part for the for part their doing citizens French five depicts Le bon Français bon Le In 1915 Robert Bonfils published a set of six postcards, six of Robertset Bonfils published1915 a In bug, a Threatened rose. by a as France and tulip, a thistle, Belgium as a England as above, flower: a andefendedGerman caterpillarpickelhaube, by thewearingisorbloom snake, eachfrog, spider, Edelstein Writes details. other or uniform his by recognizable is nationality whose soldier insect catalog, uniting the most disparatethese “Bonfilsproblem the of countriesthe solved in has in imaginative combiningway, them in a bouquet of blooms, their diversity only enhancing the harmony of the whole.” publisherpublisher unknown, unknown, on loan on from loan richard from richard cheek cheek devambez, publlisher, www.guyarnoux.fr, on loan from a private collection (left); librairie lutetia, publisher, on loan from a private collection war effort. In “Cultive la terre”(above), the farmer “cultivates wheat, his scythe a weapon against the enemy,” writes Edelstein. Another Bonfils portfolio, “La réception des zeppelins” (right) shows onlookers as the Germans firefighters with 1915, 20–21, March Paris zeppelin on attack mounteda on the street below and Sacré-Coeur in the distance. Guy Arnoux’s se ries

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- Sous les pots de fleurs (Under the carries a double reference, meaning both both meaning reference, double a carries Images de la vie des prisonniers de guerre (1917–21) offered romantic images of of elegantly images romantic offered (1917–21) cafard (beneath the waves of fear). “Le bled en fleur” (top left) La guirlande des La mois Charles Martin made the 16 drawings for flowerpots, 1917) while serving in the trenches. The work’s title spoonerizessous les flots de peur symbolize blood now poppies that the amid body a with field wheatdepicts a and the war itself. In “Le cafard” (top center), a lone soldier hides his head despair;wordFrench thein cockroach cockroach and a state of depression. George Fashion illustrator Barbier’s series dressed women with soldiers returned from combat (bottom left and cen ter) as well as battle images. In (1920)writer Mario image Meunier Each camps. prisoner-of-war German and in serving illustrator experiences personal E. Lucien Boucher recorded was accompanied by a prosetheir poem. The final plate,“A ceux qui sont restés” paid poignant (above), tribute thoseto diedwho thein camp. jules meynial, publisher, giftfrom a private of neil harris collection and (bottom teri j. left edelstein and center); (top left marcel and center); seheur, j. meynial, publisher, publisher, on loan from a private on loan collection

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- - Sous les pots Sousde lesfleurs pots(Under the de fleurs (Under the carries a double reference, meaning both both meaning reference, both double meaning a reference, carries double a carries Images de laImages vie dedes la prisonniersvie des deprisonniers guerre de guerre (1917–21) offered romantic images of of elegantly images romantic offered of elegantly (1917–21) images romantic offered (1917–21) cafard cafard (beneath (beneath the the waves waves of fear). of fear). “Le “Le bled bled en fleur” en fleur” (top (top left) left) La guirlande des La mois guirlande des La mois Charles MartinCharles made Martinthe 16 madedrawings thefor 16 drawings for flowerpots,flowerpots, 1917) while 1917) serving while servingin the trenches. in the trenches. The work’s titleThe work’s spoonerizes titlesous spoonerizessous les les flots flots de peurde peur symbolize blood now poppies that the amid body a symbolize with bloodfield now poppies wheat that the depicts amid body a a with field wheatdepicts a and the war and itself.the In war “Leitself. cafard”In “Le (top center), cafard”a lone (top center), soldiera lonehides soldierhis headhides his head despair;wordFrench thein despair;wordFrench thein cockroach cockroach and a state of depression. George Fashion illustrator cockroach Barbier’s and a state of depression. George Fashion illustrator Barbier’s series series dressed women with soldiers returned from combat (bottom left and dressed cen women with soldiers returned from combat (bottom left and cen ter) as well aster) as battlewell images.as battle In images. In (1920)(1920)writer writer Mario Mario image Meunier Each camps. image Meunier Each prisoner-of-war camps. German and in prisoner-of-war serving German illustrator and in experiences serving personal illustrator experiences personal E. Lucien E. Lucien Boucher Boucher recorded recorded was accompanied by a prosewastheir accompanied poem. The final by a prose their plate,“A poem.ceux qui sontThe restés”final plate, “A ceux qui sont restés” paid poignant (above), tribute thoseto diedwhopaid thein camp. poignant (above), tribute thoseto diedwho thein camp. by Hermann-Paul commemorated Allied commanders, here the French general Marshal Joseph Joffre (left), (left), Joffre Joseph Marshal general French the here commanders, Allied commemorated Hermann-Paul by Calendrier de la guerre la de Calendrier julesjules meynial, meynial, publisher, publisher, giftfrom a private of gift neilfrom a private harris of collection neil harris collection and (bottom teri and (bottom j. teri left edelstein j. and left edelstein center); and (top left center); (top marcel and left center); marcel and seheur, center); seheur, j. meynial, publisher, j. meynial, publisher, publisher, on loan publisher, on from loan a private on from loan a private collection on loan collection lutetia, publisher, on loan from a private collection Thewoodcuts in the 1915 victorthe firstat battle of the Marne, and Grand NicolasDuke Nicolaievitch of Russia, commander in chief of the Russian armies on the eastern front.

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Economic historian Claudia Goldin, AM’69, PhD’72, takes a detective’s joy in gathering clues, analyzing data, and reconstructing the stories behind social issues. BY MICHAEL FITZGERALD, AB’86 PHOTOGRAPHY BY BRYCE VICKMARK

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Economic historian Claudia Goldin, AM’69, PhD’72, takes a detective’s joy in gathering clues, analyzing data, and reconstructing the stories behind social issues. BY MICHAEL FITZGERALD, AB’86 PHOTOGRAPHY BY BRYCE VICKMARK

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UCH_Goldin_v3.indd 42 10/28/14 3:03 PM UCH_Goldin_v3.indd 43 10/28/14 3:03 PM Goldin directs the Development of the American Economy program at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

laudia Goldin thinks of herself as Sher- archives in the South to gather data. When she got back, lock Holmes. With titles like Un- her dissertation director, University of Chicago professor derstanding the Gender Gap and The Robert Fogel, asked for the receipts from her expenses. Regulated Economy, her case file lacks She told him she had none. “He said, ‘Well, how did you the criminal flavor of Sir Arthur Conan get from Raleigh to Durham?’ She’d hitchhiked or found Doyle’s oeuvre, but Goldin, AM’69, rides. She almost always seemed to run into someone at an PhD’72, brings a sleuth’s methods to archive who let her stay at their place.” complex puzzles of economic history. At Goldin’s insistence, she and Katz traveled to the Mid- How did urban slavery work? What ef- west to research their book The Race between Education and fect did the Great Depression have on Technology (Harvard University Press, 2008), which ex - the labor force? What caused govern- amines how public education took shape in this country, ment corruption in the United States to recede over the spreading from urban to rural areas in the early 1900s. 20th century? How do technology and education affect They visited some of the high schools that were pioneers in income inequality? And her most famous case, why do early 20th-century education. “We got to see the expansion women make less money than men? of education in places like Iowa and Nebraska,” Katz says. Since 1990 Goldin has pursued these questions at Har - Goldin loves to get out in the field and see how people vard University, where she’s the Henry Lee Professor of work, like an economic ethnographer, or a detective find - Economics and was the first woman granted tenure by her ing clues. In a recent address to the American Economic department. Why does she identify with Holmes? “You Association (AEA), of which she was president in 2013, can see his mind at work. He goes out into the really dirty Goldin paused after presenting her data to say, “Holmes part of the town and lives there and hangs out and gets to at this point sends out Watson for a lot of tobacco, fills the know the ‘street Arabs.’ He collects all this and then sits room with smoke, thinks, and comes up with a theory.” down and comes up with a theory to help him solve the Her investigations span many subjects, with a common problem. That’s what I do.” thread of how people have engaged in the economy over A labor economist and economic historian, Goldin ex- time. In a field where more prestige is accorded to quantita- cavates clues from the past, working the archives instead tive approaches and economic theory, Goldin is one of the of the streets, to illuminate social issues of today and yes - few economic historians considered among the elite (others terday. From the beginning of her career, the hunt for data are Avner Greif at Stanford, Joel Mokyr at Northwestern, has engrossed her. Lawrence Katz—Goldin’s partner, and Barry Eichengreen at the University of California, Harvard colleague, and frequent research collaborator— Berkeley). Her book Understanding the Gender Gap: An Eco- tells how as a graduate student Goldin traveled to several nomic History of American Women (Oxford University Press,

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UCH_Goldin_v3.indd 44 10/28/14 3:03 PM 1990) remains the foundational work on the rise of women she could at Cornell: humanities, political science, history, in the US labor force and the impact of that movement on the and an industrial organization course with the economist economy. It’s research she continues to build on. Alfred Kahn. A charming showman in the classroom who “She’s been effective at making economic history rel- would later become known as the father of airline deregu - evant,” says Edward Glaeser, PhD’92, the Harvard urban lation, Kahn captured her imagination. Economics became economist who coedited a book on the economics of corrup- her course of inquiry. tion with Goldin. Glaeser calls The Race between Technology In 1967, still interested in industrial organization, which and Education one of the four or five most important books she had written her thesis on, Goldin went to the Univer - in economics in the past 50 years. No one can touch her work sity of Chicago for graduate school. She was pulled there by on gender, the family, and their relation to skills, he adds. the presence of faculty like George Stigler, PhD’38; Ron- “Everything I know about the changing nature of women ald Coase; Lester Telser, AM’53, PhD’56; and Sam Peltz- [in the economy], I know from her or one of her students.” man, PhD’65, now professor emeritus at Chicago Booth. In 1970 Gary Becker, AM’53, PhD’55, returned for his sec- ond stint at the University. Becker, she says, “truly blew s a child growing up in a science-loving household in my mind open. I had never thought of economics the way Goldin directs the Development of the American Economy program at the National Bureau of Economic Research. a lower-middle-class Bronx neighborhood, Goldin he did it.” She became his research assistant; he a lasting thought she’d be a different kind of detective. Heav- influence on her. “He used the finest, sharpest scalpel to cut a ily influenced by Paul de Kruif’sThe Microbe Hunt- away everything that doesn’t matter,” she says. ers (Harcourt, Brace, and Company, 1926), she dreamed of The historian in Goldin did wonder about what got dis- becoming a bacteriologist. carded: “The urge is to put back all the stuff that he claimed laudia Goldin thinks of herself as Sher- archives in the South to gather data. When she got back, Her ambitions were reinforced at the Bronx High School didn’t matter, and to say, but it does matter.” The economist lock Holmes. With titles like Un- her dissertation director, University of Chicago professor of Science, from which she graduated in 1963. She thought in her stood in admiration: “But at the same time you have derstanding the Gender Gap and The Robert Fogel, asked for the receipts from her expenses. she knew everything. “Here I’m from the Bronx,” she re - this sparkling gem you can hold and work with—a model Regulated Economy, her case file lacks She told him she had none. “He said, ‘Well, how did you members, and “I could maneuver around very difficult ter- that starts speaking back to you and gives you a greater un- the criminal flavor of Sir Arthur Conan get from Raleigh to Durham?’ She’d hitchhiked or found rain. I could find a bathroom at the Waldorf Astoria and derstanding because of its brilliance and simplicity.” Doyle’s oeuvre, but Goldin, AM’69, rides. She almost always seemed to run into someone at an have no one stop me. I knew how to get around. I was street- Around the same time, Goldin took a class with Fogel, PhD’72, brings a sleuth’s methods to archive who let her stay at their place.” smart.” That fall the family drove to Ithaca in the Plymouth the economic historian who would become her other major complex puzzles of economic history. At Goldin’s insistence, she and Katz traveled to the Mid- that was her father’s first car. While they waited to unload influence and who, like Becker, would go on to become a How did urban slavery work? What ef- west to research their book The Race between Education and Goldin’s things, a young woman climbed on top of her fam- Nobel laureate. “Gary and Bob Fogel shared this incred - fect did the Great Depression have on Technology (Harvard University Press, 2008), which ex - ily’s Mercedes a couple of cars ahead. “She was waving her ible knack for taking the complex and making it simple,” the labor force? What caused govern- amines how public education took shape in this country, arms and she said, ‘This is so Machiavellian.’ And I thought she says. “Bob moved more in the direction of the empirics; ment corruption in the United States to recede over the spreading from urban to rural areas in the early 1900s. to myself, I do not know anything.” Gary in the direction of the theory.” 20th century? How do technology and education affect They visited some of the high schools that were pioneers in She determined to drink in as much of the liberal arts as Drawn to history since Cornell, she worked with Fogel income inequality? And her most famous case, why do early 20th-century education. “We got to see the expansion on her dissertation, a quantitative analysis of slavery in an- women make less money than men? of education in places like Iowa and Nebraska,” Katz says. tebellum Southern cities. In history and economic history, Since 1990 Goldin has pursued these questions at Har - Goldin loves to get out in the field and see how people slavery was the subject of intense scholarly attention at vard University, where she’s the Henry Lee Professor of work, like an economic ethnographer, or a detective find - the time. Through her history-student roommate, Barbara Economics and was the first woman granted tenure by her ing clues. In a recent address to the American Economic here i’m from the Sosnowski, AM’71, Goldin had discovered Richard Wade’s department. Why does she identify with Holmes? “You Association (AEA), of which she was president in 2013, book Slavery in the Cities (Oxford University Press, 1964), can see his mind at work. He goes out into the really dirty Goldin paused after presenting her data to say, “Holmes bronx, and i could which argued that slavery and urban settings—where part of the town and lives there and hangs out and gets to at this point sends out Watson for a lot of tobacco, fills the slaves lived apart from masters and sometimes hired out know the ‘street Arabs.’ He collects all this and then sits room with smoke, thinks, and comes up with a theory.” maneuver around their own labor—were incompatible. Looking at data about down and comes up with a theory to help him solve the Her investigations span many subjects, with a common markets and competition in those cities, Goldin concluded problem. That’s what I do.” thread of how people have engaged in the economy over very difficult the opposite. Slavery was a more flexible economic system A labor economist and economic historian, Goldin ex- time. In a field where more prestige is accorded to quantita- than was generally credited, she wrote, and would not soon cavates clues from the past, working the archives instead tive approaches and economic theory, Goldin is one of the have withered away without emancipation. of the streets, to illuminate social issues of today and yes - few economic historians considered among the elite (others terrain. ... i knew After receiving her PhD, Goldin taught at the University terday. From the beginning of her career, the hunt for data are Avner Greif at Stanford, Joel Mokyr at Northwestern, of Wisconsin, Princeton, and the University of Pennsylva- has engrossed her. Lawrence Katz—Goldin’s partner, and Barry Eichengreen at the University of California, how to get around. nia. As she continued to study the economics of the American Harvard colleague, and frequent research collaborator— Berkeley). Her book Understanding the Gender Gap: An Eco- South, the issues around women, families, and work that have tells how as a graduate student Goldin traveled to several nomic History of American Women (Oxford University Press, i was street-smart. defined her career began to command her attention. She “was

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UCH_Goldin_v3.indd 44 10/28/14 3:03 PM sniffing around for something of deeper personal interest,” Goldin wrote in an autobiographical essay, “The Economist as Detective.” As her focus shifted to the family, Goldin felt her- self getting warmer. Around 1980 she realized her work was “slighting the family member who would undergo the most profound change over the long run—the wife and mother.” Often unrepresented in historical data, married women and their labor had a hidden story that Goldin grew passion- ate to uncover. These investigations led to Understanding the Gender Gap—eventually. First Goldin had a chance to get her hands dirty digging up clues. In the National Archives, where the stacks were not yet off limits to visitors, she found for - gotten surveys conducted through much of the 20th century Goldin recalls UChicago as “a cathedral of learning.” by the US Department of Labor’s Women’s Bureau. They gave her data on women’s work histories before 1940, on the “marriage bars” that held wedded women out of much of societal—have contributed to its halting pace and to “the the workforce in the 1920s and 1930s, and on wages. The tenacity of gender differences in the workplace.” find enabled her to write a comprehensive economic history One of those factors is wage discrimination, “a difference of American women that remains a landmark. in earnings between two groups that cannot be accounted for by differences in the average productive attributes of the groups, such as job experience, education, and tenure with he gender gap, a term coined by Eleanor Smeal of the a firm.” Goldin traced the emergence of such discrimination National Organization of Women in 1981 to discuss against women to white-collar companies between 1890 different voting patterns among men and women, now and 1940, when it grew even as the number of women in the T more commonly refers to the different pay that men workforce increased and the wage gap narrowed. and women receive for doing similar jobs. While narrowed, “If the considerable difference in the earnings of males the gap persists almost 35 years on, even as women have be- and females in manufacturing was largely due to rewards come better educated than men. Today, 78 cents is widely to strength, then the replacement of brain for brawn work cited as what women earn for every dollar earned by men. should have evened starting salaries,” Goldin wrote, and it Understanding the Gender Gap, published in 1990, drew did, before diverging with time on the job since firms barred on extensive data, including the neglected records in the women from most jobs with long promotional ladders—and National Archives, to reveal a complex, sometimes sur- men from jobs with short ones. In manufacturing, such seg- prising story about gender, work, and pay over the 19th regation occurred through differences in men’s and women’s and 20th centuries. Goldin considered factors as diverse physical strength. And because manufacturing jobs paid by as the shift from manufacturing to clerical and sales work the piece, they afforded less opportunity for wage discrimi- for women; the unpaid, often undocumented work that nation than salaried jobs. In clerical occupations, women married women performed in the home before they began were penalized by being limited to jobs with lower salaries joining the paid labor force in large numbers; and the his- and no chance of promotion. tory of legislation meant to protect female workers from The impact of such policies, Goldin wrote, “was to have exploitation. The persistence of social norms and the de- consciously sex-segregated occupations.” That had much cline of fertility rates came into her analysis too. to do with the stability of the gender gap from the 1950s to Progress on wages over the past two centuries, Goldin the early 1980s, before women’s increased political power showed, has not been linear. The ratio of female to male started to have an effect. earnings rose during the Industrial Revolution and again with the growth of clerical work in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. But it remained essentially flat from the t the end of Understanding the Gender Gap, Goldin 1950s to early 1980s, even as women entered the labor force voices optimism about the future. Today she thinks in greater numbers and became more educated. The story she sees how the gap can finally be closed—how the she constructed defied easy summary, but, Goldin argued, A final chapter of the story can be written, as she put it it showed that economic progress has been a force for gen- in her talk to the AEA and a 2014 paper, “A Grand Gender der equality. Many factors—economic, historical, and Convergence: Its Last Chapter.”

46 the university of chicago magazine | nov–dec 2014 novelists are not social scientists, but they’re acute sniffing around for something of deeper personal interest,” observers of the The gender gap will close, Goldin says, when employers Goldin wrote in an autobiographical essay, “The Economist as structure their businesses to allow for flexible hours, substi- Detective.” As her focus shifted to the family, Goldin felt her- world, and the tutability of workers, and linear pay. Some industries and self getting warmer. Around 1980 she realized her work was occupations will be slower than others. For a handful of “slighting the family member who would undergo the most jobs this won’t be possible—she cites “CEOs, trial lawyers, profound change over the long run—the wife and mother.” interestinG job ... merger-and-acquisition bankers, surgeons, and the US sec- Often unrepresented in historical data, married women retary of state.” But she believes many more industries can and their labor had a hidden story that Goldin grew passion- is to fiGure out which embrace them than already do. “Women have demanded this ate to uncover. These investigations led to Understanding the type of temporal flexibility,” she says, but “more and more Gender Gap—eventually. First Goldin had a chance to get her observations have men are demanding it. … Not family, but work-life balance.” hands dirty digging up clues. In the National Archives, where the stacks were not yet off limits to visitors, she found for - broader validity. gotten surveys conducted through much of the 20th century Goldin recalls UChicago as “a cathedral of learning.” oldin and Katz share an office at the National Bu - by the US Department of Labor’s Women’s Bureau. They reau of Economic Research (NBER), just beyond gave her data on women’s work histories before 1940, on the Harvard Square, where she directs the Develop- “marriage bars” that held wedded women out of much of societal—have contributed to its halting pace and to “the Women get paid less today, Goldin says, in part because G ment of the American Economy program. The the workforce in the 1920s and 1930s, and on wages. The tenacity of gender differences in the workplace.” they are more likely than men to step away from jobs or space has a few cubicles for research assistants and an inte- find enabled her to write a comprehensive economic history One of those factors is wage discrimination, “a difference take less time-consuming jobs (switching from a law firm rior office for visiting NBER fellows that houses a bunch of of American women that remains a landmark. in earnings between two groups that cannot be accounted to become corporate counsel, for instance). When they do, stuffed animals. You enter through a childproof gate that for by differences in the average productive attributes of the corporations financially punish those who spend less time keeps the couple’s golden retriever, Pika, from wandering. groups, such as job experience, education, and tenure with working—so concluded a study she cowrote with Katz and A first meeting with Goldin might include a lesson on he gender gap, a term coined by Eleanor Smeal of the a firm.” Goldin traced the emergence of such discrimination Marianne Bertrand of Chicago Booth looking at why earn- how the retriever breeds came to be. She dotes on Pika, National Organization of Women in 1981 to discuss against women to white-collar companies between 1890 ings for male and female MBAs are similar at the begin- whom she has trained for obedience competitions. Oc- different voting patterns among men and women, now and 1940, when it grew even as the number of women in the nings of their careers but diverge over time. casionally she’ll take him out in the hallway and put him T more commonly refers to the different pay that men workforce increased and the wage gap narrowed. Some sectors of the economy, like science and technol- through his paces, all hand motions and gestures, no words. and women receive for doing similar jobs. While narrowed, “If the considerable difference in the earnings of males ogy, are ahead of others in narrowing the gap. Among Katz jokes that he is Pika’s untrainer. the gap persists almost 35 years on, even as women have be- and females in manufacturing was largely due to rewards pharmacists the hours-adjusted ratio of women’s earnings Goldin’s curiosity is omnivorous. She’s an expert bird- come better educated than men. Today, 78 cents is widely to strength, then the replacement of brain for brawn work to men’s is 0.95, while in a few tech occupations it rises watcher, an excellent gardener, and a skilled plumber; she cited as what women earn for every dollar earned by men. should have evened starting salaries,” Goldin wrote, and it above 1. But the gap remains wide in the corporate and legal also does her own taxes (as an economist she should be fa- Understanding the Gender Gap, published in 1990, drew did, before diverging with time on the job since firms barred sectors, despite the fact that men and women have similar miliar with the current tax code, she says, plus “it’s really on extensive data, including the neglected records in the women from most jobs with long promotional ladders—and earnings at the outset of their careers in these fields. easy to do”). She doesn’t watch television, but she and Katz National Archives, to reveal a complex, sometimes sur- men from jobs with short ones. In manufacturing, such seg- What accounts for the difference? Take pharmacists. read to each other every night. Not long ago they reread the prising story about gender, work, and pay over the 19th regation occurred through differences in men’s and women’s Most are now employed by large companies that have ad- complete stories of Sherlock Holmes; a favorite is “A Scan- and 20th centuries. Goldin considered factors as diverse physical strength. And because manufacturing jobs paid by opted technology and streamlined processes. Thus every dal in Bohemia,” where Holmes is outwitted by a woman. as the shift from manufacturing to clerical and sales work the piece, they afforded less opportunity for wage discrimi- employee has equal access to the needed information about Last summer, they returned to Jane Austen’s 1815 novel for women; the unpaid, often undocumented work that nation than salaried jobs. In clerical occupations, women clients, and pharmacists can easily substitute for each other Emma. (Goldin doesn’t see many movies, but she’s quick to married women performed in the home before they began were penalized by being limited to jobs with lower salaries when one is away. There’s no outsized premium on working bring up that Clueless is based on the novel—”a fun movie.”) joining the paid labor force in large numbers; and the his- and no chance of promotion. specific hours or long hours, and no penalty for working few- In Goldin’s 2006 seminar Women, Work, and the Fam - tory of legislation meant to protect female workers from The impact of such policies, Goldin wrote, “was to have er—pay is linear with respect to hours worked. That evens ily: Present and Past, students read the O. Henry short story exploitation. The persistence of social norms and the de- consciously sex-segregated occupations.” That had much the playing field for women, who “still do more in the home “Springtime à la Carte” (1906), centered on a young woman cline of fertility rates came into her analysis too. to do with the stability of the gender gap from the 1950s to than men,” Goldin says. who is a freelance typist, lacking the skills to become a ste- Progress on wages over the past two centuries, Goldin the early 1980s, before women’s increased political power In business and law, by contrast, workers make poor sub- nographer and “enter that bright galaxy of office talent,” and showed, has not been linear. The ratio of female to male started to have an effect. stitutes for each other. Time pressure is intense, availability The Group, Mary McCarthy’s 1964 novel about eight young earnings rose during the Industrial Revolution and again to clients and coworkers prized, and strong interpersonal re- Vassar graduates’ lives after college, which later inspiredSex with the growth of clerical work in the late 19th and early lationships with clients crucial. Here the gender gap remains and the City. She also assigned readings from Betty Friedan’s 20th centuries. But it remained essentially flat from the t the end of Understanding the Gender Gap, Goldin the greatest—and it grows with the number of years on the The Feminine Mystique (1963). Such texts sit on her syllabi 1950s to early 1980s, even as women entered the labor force voices optimism about the future. Today she thinks job. Goldin’s study with Katz and Bertrand found that after alongside more traditional economics texts like Becker’s A in greater numbers and became more educated. The story she sees how the gap can finally be closed—how the 10 to 16 years in the workforce, female University of Chicago Treatise on the Family (1981), Francine Blau and Marianne Fer- she constructed defied easy summary, but, Goldin argued, A final chapter of the story can be written, as she put it MBAs were making 55 percent of their male counterparts’ ber, AM’46, PhD’56, on discrimination, and her own paper it showed that economic progress has been a force for gen- in her talk to the AEA and a 2014 paper, “A Grand Gender earnings. Sixty percent of the difference, they concluded, with Katz documenting the power of the pill. der equality. Many factors—economic, historical, and Convergence: Its Last Chapter.” came from career interruptions and working fewer hours. Goldin developed a love for literature, especially W. B.

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UCH_Goldin_v3.indd 47 10/28/14 3:03 PM Yeats, at Cornell. It has persisted, and has influenced her eco- baby is not asking questions that are better than mine, they nomics work. Novelists “are not social scientists,” Katz notes, are totally welcome.’” Boustan now has an infant of her own “but they’re acute observers of the world, and the interesting whom she recently took to an economics seminar. “I had to job for an economic historian is to figure out which of the ob- psych myself up for that,” she says. “If I hadn’t had someone servations have broader validity.” The voracious reader is like Claudia to tell me through example that it was OK, I known among economists as a gifted storyteller herself. “One would’ve felt like, ‘who am I to bring a baby here?’” of the things she’s very good at is how to construct a compel- Boustan’s reluctance may be exacerbated by the shortage ling narrative with your model and your data,” says Elisa Ol- of women in economics. A recent project of Goldin’s exam- ivieri, AM’11, who worked with Goldin as an undergraduate ined why the number of female economics majors has de- at Harvard and a research assistant at NBER. “Her papers, clined even as women now constitute the majority of college they’re thoughtful and rigorous, but also very readable.” students. The difference in men’s and women’s math ability on entering college is negligible, if not in women’s favor, but nationwide there are three male econ majors for every female. he pleasant kitchen at the NBER can be its own mod- Goldin says the data show that women are less likely to major est nexus of economic thought. Olivieri remembers in a subject when they don’t earn top grades in it. Economics being in the kitchen late one night, working on her tends to lose prospective women majors who get lower than t senior thesis, when Goldin walked in. It turned out As in a gateway course like Introduction to Economics, while that the same task had kept both of them at the office late: men who get Bs and even Cs are less likely to be deterred. Goldin was reviewing a draft of Olivieri’s paper. Writing in Bloomberg View in October 2013, Goldin asked Now in her sixth year of graduate studies in economics whether Janet Yellen’s appointment as Federal Reserve at Chicago, Olivieri is still in close touch with Goldin. At a chair would draw more women into the field. It might, memorial service for Fogel last year, she heard Goldin extol she said, but they will need more encouragement than a his dedication to his two families, at home and at school. role model even of Yellen’s caliber. Another approach, “She might well have been talking about herself,” Olivieri she proposed, is to convince them of the subject’s useful - says. “She has a lot of intellectual sons and daughters, but ness beyond careers in finance and business—and of its ap- a lot of daughters in particular. She’s a pioneering example peal beyond mere usefulness. “Many young women,” she and follows through with being a truly mentoring person.” wrote, “don’t seem to understand that economics is also for She keeps a photo of Goldin in her office and is on notice to those who have broad intellectual interests.” send her dissertation draft to Goldin as soon as it’s finished. Shedding empirical light on a wide range of social mys- In December 2013, two months after Fogel’s memorial, teries drives Goldin. She’s still chasing clues and piecing the NBER held a conference in Goldin’s honor called Human together stories. She’s now at work, with Katz and former Capital in History: The American Record (the papers were graduate student Marcella Alsan, an assistant professor of published this November by the University of Chicago Press). medicine at Stanford, on infant mortality and the role of “This was the first NBER conference I’d ever been at where sewer systems in boosting the likelihood that infants would there were lots of babies in the room,” says Boston University survive. One of the first sharp changes in those rates in the economist Robert Margo, who organized the event with two United States, she says, was in Massachusetts in the 1890s, of Goldin’s former students, Leah Platt Boustan and Carola reducing infant deaths from about one in seven to one in 10 Frydman. Boustan remembers Goldin saying, “as long as the to 20. Against other theories that the drop had to do with changes in the milk supply, she and her collaborators sus- pect the creation of a watershed and metropolitan water district. “Babies get bathed and touch water even if they’re She’S a pioneering breast-fed,” she says. “The pathogenic environment is passed on.” At first the three “went down the cow path” example and followS too, but now they’re looking for evidence in how towns’ mortality rates varied with their distances from the water- shed and whether or not they belonged to the water district. through with being Lower mortality rates in turn changed the workforce, im- proved health and longevity, and had a cascade of other effects a truly mentoring on society. Between what she finds in the archives and the -il lumination afforded by the quantitative tools of economic perSon. analysis, Goldin thinks, she’ll soon have the answer. ◆

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Yeats, at Cornell. It has persisted, and has influenced her eco- baby is not asking questions that are better than mine, they nomics work. Novelists “are not social scientists,” Katz notes, are totally welcome.’” Boustan now has an infant of her own “but they’re acute observers of the world, and the interesting whom she recently took to an economics seminar. “I had to job for an economic historian is to figure out which of the ob- psych myself up for that,” she says. “If I hadn’t had someone servations have broader validity.” The voracious reader is like Claudia to tell me through example that it was OK, I known among economists as a gifted storyteller herself. “One would’ve felt like, ‘who am I to bring a baby here?’” of the things she’s very good at is how to construct a compel- Boustan’s reluctance may be exacerbated by the shortage ling narrative with your model and your data,” says Elisa Ol- of women in economics. A recent project of Goldin’s exam- ivieri, AM’11, who worked with Goldin as an undergraduate ined why the number of female economics majors has de- at Harvard and a research assistant at NBER. “Her papers, clined even as women now constitute the majority of college they’re thoughtful and rigorous, but also very readable.” students. The difference in men’s and women’s math ability on entering college is negligible, if not in women’s favor, but nationwide there are three male econ majors for every female. he pleasant kitchen at the NBER can be its own mod- Goldin says the data show that women are less likely to major est nexus of economic thought. Olivieri remembers in a subject when they don’t earn top grades in it. Economics being in the kitchen late one night, working on her tends to lose prospective women majors who get lower than t senior thesis, when Goldin walked in. It turned out As in a gateway course like Introduction to Economics, while that the same task had kept both of them at the office late: men who get Bs and even Cs are less likely to be deterred. Goldin was reviewing a draft of Olivieri’s paper. Writing in Bloomberg View in October 2013, Goldin asked Now in her sixth year of graduate studies in economics whether Janet Yellen’s appointment as Federal Reserve at Chicago, Olivieri is still in close touch with Goldin. At a chair would draw more women into the field. It might, memorial service for Fogel last year, she heard Goldin extol she said, but they will need more encouragement than a his dedication to his two families, at home and at school. role model even of Yellen’s caliber. Another approach, “She might well have been talking about herself,” Olivieri she proposed, is to convince them of the subject’s useful - says. “She has a lot of intellectual sons and daughters, but ness beyond careers in finance and business—and of its ap- a lot of daughters in particular. She’s a pioneering example peal beyond mere usefulness. “Many young women,” she and follows through with being a truly mentoring person.” wrote, “don’t seem to understand that economics is also for She keeps a photo of Goldin in her office and is on notice to those who have broad intellectual interests.” send her dissertation draft to Goldin as soon as it’s finished. Shedding empirical light on a wide range of social mys- In December 2013, two months after Fogel’s memorial, teries drives Goldin. She’s still chasing clues and piecing the NBER held a conference in Goldin’s honor called Human together stories. She’s now at work, with Katz and former Capital in History: The American Record (the papers were graduate student Marcella Alsan, an assistant professor of published this November by the University of Chicago Press). medicine at Stanford, on infant mortality and the role of “This was the first NBER conference I’d ever been at where sewer systems in boosting the likelihood that infants would there were lots of babies in the room,” says Boston University survive. One of the first sharp changes in those rates in the economist Robert Margo, who organized the event with two United States, she says, was in Massachusetts in the 1890s, of Goldin’s former students, Leah Platt Boustan and Carola reducing infant deaths from about one in seven to one in 10 Frydman. Boustan remembers Goldin saying, “as long as the to 20. Against other theories that the drop had to do with changes in the milk supply, she and her collaborators sus- pect the creation of a watershed and metropolitan water district. “Babies get bathed and touch water even if they’re She’S a pioneering breast-fed,” she says. “The pathogenic environment is passed on.” At first the three “went down the cow path” Browsers searched the example and followS too, but now they’re looking for evidence in how towns’ Harper Library card mortality rates varied with their distances from the water- catalog in 1963. Incoming through with being shed and whether or not they belonged to the water district. library director Brenda L. Lower mortality rates in turn changed the workforce, im- Johnson will have many proved health and longevity, and had a cascade of other effects new high-tech tools at a truly mentoring on society. Between what she finds in the archives and the -il her disposal (see For the lumination afforded by the quantitative tools of economic Record, page 17). perSon. analysis, Goldin thinks, she’ll soon have the answer. ◆ photographyby danny lyon, ab’63, courtesy uchicago photographic archive, apf2-03137, university ofchicago library

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Of superhuman bondage the final city-destroying über-punch- By nOah Berlatsky, am’94 fest in Man of Steel. Instead, Wonder Woman ties people up and commands them. And then, quite often, the vil- lain manages to get her rope, and tie her up, and command her. And then she gets it back, and commands them. The comics are more about this play- ful vertiginous round than they are about violent struggle and perma- riving my son and a car - of maternal love and tenderness which nent defeat. In Wonder Woman No. 2 pool full of boys to school, are as essential to a normal child as the there’s a two-page sequence in which the conversation naturally breath of life. Suppose your child’s an “Oriental dancer” named Naha turned to superheroes—or ideal becomes a superman who uses binds Wonder Woman with her own more precisely, superpow- his extraordinary powers to help the rope and leads her around town. Sup - ers. Which ones would you weak. The most important ingredient posedly this is to throw off the police, pick for yourself? Flying, in the human happiness recipe still is but really the comic seems to see the superstrength, and invis- missing—love.” spectacle as a pleasure in itself. ibility got mentions, fol- It’s a bit of a stretch to imagine my In an interview, Marston explicitly lowed by a long, involved carpool debating the relative merits of said that Wonder Woman’s lasso was conversation about wheth- love versus shape-shifting as a super- “a symbol of female charm, allure, er shape-shifting meant that you could power. Nonetheless, Marston’s added oomph, attraction.” There are scenes Dfly, be superstrong, and be invisible, or ingredient turned out to make for ex- of bondage—of people being tied up whether that was illogical or (more im- traordinarily popular superhero com- with that symbol of female allure—on portantly) unfair. ics. His character, Wonder Woman, virtually every page. Wonder Woman Whether illogical or unfair, though, arguably the first female superhero, comics consciously replace violence I think my carpool was onto some - sold staggeringly well during World with flirtation. thing. The battle between good and War II, when comics could move hun- It may seem like the erotic approach evil in superhero stories, and even re- dreds of thousands of copies a month. to superheroes hasn’t had much long- ally their plots, often seems beside the They aren’t necessarily dated either; term traction. Superhero comics and point. The fun bit, the part you go to my son read them and thought they superhero movies tend to be devoted the theater to see, is all those awesome were great. to explosions, not to bondage games. powers powering away. Doing good is To some degree, those original Wonder Woman’s recent comics, writ- OK, but the real fun is in doing good Wonder Woman comics don’t seem ten by Brian Azzarello and drawn by by blasting bad guys (or whoever) to stray far from the standard boy Cliff Chiang, are awash in blood and with your repulsor rays (which shape- model of superheroism: we’ve got lots guts. The upcoming Batman V Super- shifters may or may not be able to of powers and we’re going to blast you man film, in which Wonder Woman is duplicate). It is, as my carpool cheer- with them. Wonder Woman is super- fully suggests, a stereotypically boy- strong and superfast (she outruns a car centric vision of narrative, in which in one of her first appearances), plus Those original Wonder what happens is less important than she has nifty weapons like a lasso of who’s stronger and how. command that makes you do whatever Woman comics don’t That insight is hardly original. Psy- she says. She does fight bad guys, and seem to stray far from chologist William Marston was say- bad girls too. ing the same in 1944, only a few years But blasting someone with heat the standard boy model teekay credit photo after the original Superman started to vision is one thing; wrapping them of superheroism: power up. According to Marston, “It in a rope that compels obedience is seemed to me, from a psychological something else. The original Wonder we’ve got lots of powers angle … that the comics’ worst offense Woman comics don’t involve long vio- and we’re going to blast was their blood-curdling masculinity. lent battles in which bodies go flying photo credit teekay A male hero, at best, lacks the qualities and property damage escalates, as in you with them. eve/corbis michele

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Of superhuman bondage the final city-destroying über-punch- By nOah Berlatsky, am’94 fest in Man of Steel. Instead, Wonder Woman ties people up and commands them. And then, quite often, the vil- lain manages to get her rope, and tie her up, and command her. And then she gets it back, and commands them. The comics are more about this play- ful vertiginous round than they are about violent struggle and perma- riving my son and a car - of maternal love and tenderness which nent defeat. In Wonder Woman No. 2 pool full of boys to school, are as essential to a normal child as the there’s a two-page sequence in which the conversation naturally breath of life. Suppose your child’s an “Oriental dancer” named Naha turned to superheroes—or ideal becomes a superman who uses binds Wonder Woman with her own more precisely, superpow- his extraordinary powers to help the rope and leads her around town. Sup - ers. Which ones would you weak. The most important ingredient posedly this is to throw off the police, pick for yourself? Flying, in the human happiness recipe still is but really the comic seems to see the superstrength, and invis- missing—love.” spectacle as a pleasure in itself. ibility got mentions, fol- It’s a bit of a stretch to imagine my In an interview, Marston explicitly lowed by a long, involved carpool debating the relative merits of said that Wonder Woman’s lasso was conversation about wheth- love versus shape-shifting as a super- “a symbol of female charm, allure, Cartoonist Jose Delbo draws Wonder Woman at the PalmCon Convention in South Florida in September 2013. er shape-shifting meant that you could power. Nonetheless, Marston’s added oomph, attraction.” There are scenes Dfly, be superstrong, and be invisible, or ingredient turned out to make for ex- of bondage—of people being tied up whether that was illogical or (more im- traordinarily popular superhero com- with that symbol of female allure—on supposed to have a cameo, is directed Meyer is in no rush to make Bella pires the way that other superhero portantly) unfair. ics. His character, Wonder Woman, virtually every page. Wonder Woman by Zack Snyder—say no more. super because in Twilight the powers Buffy did. Whether illogical or unfair, though, arguably the first female superhero, comics consciously replace violence Still, despite the popularity of are secondary to the romance. The The students were right. Bella isn’t I think my carpool was onto some - sold staggeringly well during World with flirtation. violent superheroes, one of the most series is all about the sexy ancient/ heroic the way Buffy is. If superhero- thing. The battle between good and War II, when comics could move hun- It may seem like the erotic approach successful multimedia phenomena of young vampire Edward and about ism and superpowers are defined in evil in superhero stories, and even re- dreds of thousands of copies a month. to superheroes hasn’t had much long- the past decade is a superhero story in the sexy, virile werewolf Jacob. The terms of the destructive power of ally their plots, often seems beside the They aren’t necessarily dated either; term traction. Superhero comics and which love is the greatest superpow- ups and downs of those relationships Iron Man’s repulsors, or how much point. The fun bit, the part you go to my son read them and thought they superhero movies tend to be devoted er: the tween vampire romance series are the focus; superpowers are there Hulk can smash, then Bella—and the the theater to see, is all those awesome were great. to explosions, not to bondage games. Twilight. And not coincidentally, like to add tension and excitement to the early Wonder Woman—aren’t very powers powering away. Doing good is To some degree, those original Wonder Woman’s recent comics, writ- Wonder Woman, its protagonist is a romance, not to the violence. In the impressive as superheroes. But as fun OK, but the real fun is in doing good Wonder Woman comics don’t seem ten by Brian Azzarello and drawn by woman. very last scene in Twilight, vampire as it is to blow things up and stake evil by blasting bad guys (or whoever) to stray far from the standard boy Cliff Chiang, are awash in blood and Admittedly, Twilight’s Bella isn’t Bella reveals to Edward that she now through the heart, it’s worth consider- with your repulsor rays (which shape- model of superheroism: we’ve got lots guts. The upcoming Batman V Super- usually seen as a superhero. But there’s has the ability to let him read her ing other kinds of heroism too. As my shifters may or may not be able to of powers and we’re going to blast you man film, in which Wonder Woman is no doubt that in Stephenie Meyer’s mind. The ultimate, most awesome son shape-shifts on up through adoles- duplicate). It is, as my carpool cheer- with them. Wonder Woman is super- final book she gains superpowers, be- superpower is not shape-shifting, as cence and beyond, I hope he’s strong fully suggests, a stereotypically boy- strong and superfast (she outruns a car coming a vampire with superstrength, my son would have it, but the ability and brave and able to fight for what he centric vision of narrative, in which in one of her first appearances), plus Those original Wonder superspeed, and superinvulnerability. to join minds with your husband for believes. But I hope, for my sake and what happens is less important than she has nifty weapons like a lasso of Moreover, the series strongly suggests all eternity. his, that one of his powers is the ability who’s stronger and how. command that makes you do whatever Woman comics don’t from the very first book that Bella is a When I told a college class earlier to love. ◆ That insight is hardly original. Psy- she says. She does fight bad guys, and seem to stray far from potential vampire in waiting. She can this year that Bella might be a super - chologist William Marston was say- bad girls too. smell blood when she’s still a human, hero, they were as skeptical as my car- Noah Berlatsky, AM’94, is the author ing the same in 1944, only a few years But blasting someone with heat the standard boy model teekay teekay credit photo credit photo and her telepathic vampire boyfriend pool would be if I suggested that mind of Wonder Woman: Bondage and after the original Superman started to vision is one thing; wrapping them of superheroism: Edward can’t read her mind. Most su- melding with your spouse might make Feminism in the Marston/Peter Com- power up. According to Marston, “It in a rope that compels obedience is perhero stories are about powers, so a desirable superpower. Bella, the ics, 1941–1948, due out in early 2015 seemed to me, from a psychological something else. The original Wonder we’ve got lots of powers the hero gets those powers at the begin- college students argued, was whiny, from Rutgers University Press. He ed- angle … that the comics’ worst offense Woman comics don’t involve long vio- and we’re going to blast ning of the narrative. Twilight, though, ineffectual, mopey, and boring. She its the comics and culture website the was their blood-curdling masculinity. lent battles in which bodies go flying takes its time—three whole books— didn’t have exciting adventures, and Hooded Utilitarian and is a contribut- photo creditphoto credit teekay teekay A male hero, at best, lacks the qualities and property damage escalates, as in you with them. eve/corbis michele eve/corbis michele before handing over the superness. she certainly didn’t stake evil vam- ing writer at the Atlantic.

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CULTURAL LEADER Julie Burros, AB’86, has been named chief of arts and culture for the City of Boston, Mayor Marty Walsh an- nounced in September. Burros, who oversaw a revised Chicago Cultural Plan as director of cultural planning since 2000 for the City of Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, will be Boston’s first cabinet-level arts official in more than two decades. When she’s sworn in this December, Burros will oversee nine employees of the Boston Arts Com- mission and Boston Cultural Council and an annual budget of $1.3 million. MCLANE VERSES THE COMPETITION PALEO PRESIDENT Poet Maureen N. McLane’s (PhD’97) third collection, This Blue (Farrar, Members of the Paleontological So- Straus, and Giroux), was shortlisted for the National Book Foundation’s 2014 ciety voted University of Cincinnati National Book Award for poetry. Also a critic and author of the memoir My professor Arnold Miller, PhD’86, as Poets (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux), which was a finalist for the 2012 National president-elect. Miller will serve con- Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography, McLane is a professor of English secutive two-year terms as president- at New York University. elect, president, and past president. A former editor of the journal Paleobio­ logy, Miller teaches paleontology, ge- his cholesterol level. He wrote an es- nual event concludes November 9 to ology, and environmental studies and say on the subject in July in Med Page become director of Vienna’s Wien also serves as adjunct curator of inver- Today that prompted debate among Museum. A Vienna native, Bunzl be- tebrate paleontology at the Cincinnati readers and was covered in the New came the festival’s artistic director in Museum of Natural History. York Times’s blog on health, Well. 2010 and has served on the faculty at “Anything someone does to move the University of Illinois at Urbana- EXERCISED ABOUT DIET away from the Standard American Champaign, where he has been a pro- Kim Williams, AB’75, MD’79, chief Diet,” he told the Chicago Tribune, fessor of anthropology, history, and

of cardiology at Rush University “will make a huge difference in terms German, since 1998. The Wien Mu 2.0 - by-nc-nd cc jo, ka by photography (top); smith jason by photography Medical Center, assumes the presi- of diabetes, hypertension, obesity, seum, which has multiple locations in dency of the American College of and heart disease.” Vienna, includes collections and ex- Cardiology in January after serving hibitions about the city’s history, art, as president-elect in 2014. Williams AN ADVOCATE FOR AIDS CARE fashion, and culture. advocates a plant-based diet free of John Peller, MPP’00, became presi- animal products, which he adpoted in dent and CEO of the AIDS Foun - CROSSING ACADEMIC BORDERS 2003 in a successful effort to reduce dation of Chicago in September. R. Scott Appleby, AM’79, PhD’85, Working with the organization since has been appointed founding dean 2005, Peller led its state lobbying of the University of Notre Dame’s efforts as vice president of policy, Donald R. Keough School of Global and most recently served as interim Affairs. A professor of history and a president and CEO. An advocate for scholar of global religious movements, affordable access to HIV medica - Appleby has been a Notre Dame fac- tions, Peller’s efforts have included ulty member since 1994. Previously the HIVHealthReform.org project, director of the Kroc Institute for In- which educates patients about the Af- ternational Peace Studies, Appleby fordable Care Act. will lead the first new college or school at Notre Dame in nearly a century. HOME FOR THE HUMANITIES The Keough School’s research will Chicago Humanities Festival artis- focus on international development, tic director Matti Bunzl, PhD’98, peace, human rights, and governance. will leave the position after the an- — Jason Kelly

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Notes Nov Dec 2014_Layout_v2.indd 52 10/28/14 10:44 AM tion throughout their organizations. tory, nature, and evolution of debates Notes Releasesreleases Spoiler alert: It ain’t easy. But it is in photography. Editor Andrew E. worth the effort. Hershberger offers an authoritative and up-to-date compendium, includ- ing a thorough look at recent trends CULTURAL LEADER The Magazine lists a selection of general in digital photography. His is the only Julie Burros, AB’86, has been named interest books, films, and albums by alumni. collection to include ancient; Re- chief of arts and culture for the City For additional alumni releases, use the link naissance; and 19th-, 20th-, and 21st- of Boston, Mayor Marty Walsh an- to the Magazine’s Goodreads bookshelf at century writings on photographic nounced in September. Burros, who mag.uchicago.edu/alumni-books. theory. oversaw a revised Chicago Cultural Plan as director of cultural planning BEFRIENDING THE COMMEDIA DELL’ARTE OF REPUBLICAN THEOLOGY: THE CIVIL since 2000 for the City of Chicago’s FLAMINIO SCALA: THE COMIC SCENARIOS RELIGION OF AMERICAN EVANGELICALS Department of Cultural Affairs and By Natalie Crohn Schmitt, AB’58, AM’61; By Benjamin T. Lynerd, AM’00, Special Events, will be Boston’s first University of Toronto Press, 2014 PhD’09; Oxford University Press, 2014 cabinet-level arts official in more than Chicago’s Second City is over 50 Benjamin Lynerd’s first book, two decades. When she’s sworn in this years old, but the birth of improvisa- penned during a postdoctoral fel- December, Burros will oversee nine tion comedy dates back to at least the ILLUSIONS OF A FUTURE: PSYCHOANALYSIS lowship with the Benjamin Franklin employees of the Boston Arts Com- 16th century. The commedia dell’arte AND THE BIOPOLITICS OF DESIRE Project at the Illinois Institute of mission and Boston Cultural Council was one of the most important the- By Kate Schechter, AM’88, AM’96, AM’02, Technology, examines the political and an annual budget of $1.3 million. atrical movements in early modern PhD’10; Duke University Press, 2014 role of white evangelicals from a his- MCLANE VERSES THE COMPETITION Europe, inspiring artists including A growing number of people turn torical and theological perspective. PALEO PRESIDENT Poet Maureen N. McLane’s (PhD’97) third collection, This Blue (Farrar, Molière, Picasso, and Stravinsky. to medication to treat mental health Republican Theology centers on the Members of the Paleontological So- Straus, and Giroux), was shortlisted for the National Book Foundation’s 2014 Yet, much like contemporary improv, issues, rather than focusing only on paradox of this group’s outspoken ciety voted University of Cincinnati National Book Award for poetry. Also a critic and author of the memoir My the genre is widely viewed as superfi- therapy. That’s one big reason, Kate support for limited government— professor Arnold Miller, PhD’86, as Poets (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux), which was a finalist for the 2012 National cial. Natalie Crohn Schmittdebunks Schechter argues, why the field of except on issues relating to personal president-elect. Miller will serve con- Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography, McLane is a professor of English this perception, using the work of psychoanalysis is in a state of crisis. morality. Lynerd concludes with secutive two-year terms as president- at New York University. Flaminio Scala to illustrate the com- Taking an in-depth look at practices an analysis of why this paradoxi- elect, president, and past president. A media dell’arte’s rich craftsmanship in Chicago, Schechter examines cal worldview is so “irresistible” to former editor of the journal Paleobio­ and social commentary. the evolution of the analyst-patient white evangelicals. logy, Miller teaches paleontology, ge- his cholesterol level. He wrote an es- nual event concludes November 9 to relationship and the future of psycho- ology, and environmental studies and say on the subject in July in Med Page become director of Vienna’s Wien COLLECTIVE GENIUS: THE ART AND analysis in a world increasingly domi- also serves as adjunct curator of inver- Today that prompted debate among Museum. A Vienna native, Bunzl be- PRACTICE OF LEADING INNOVATION nated by standardized approaches to tebrate paleontology at the Cincinnati readers and was covered in the New came the festival’s artistic director in By Linda A. Hill, AM’79, PhD’82; Greg mental health. Museum of Natural History. York Times’s blog on health, Well. 2010 and has served on the faculty at Brandeau; Emily Truelove; and Kent “Anything someone does to move the University of Illinois at Urbana- Lineback; Harvard Business Review LOVE LETTERS TO THE DEAD EXERCISED ABOUT DIET away from the Standard American Champaign, where he has been a pro- Press, 2014 By Ava Dellaira, AB’06; Farrar, Straus, Kim Williams, AB’75, MD’79, chief Diet,” he told the Chicago Tribune, fessor of anthropology, history, and How do some organizations innovate and Giroux, 2014 of cardiology at Rush University “will make a huge difference in terms German, since 1998. The Wien Mu 2.0 - by-nc-nd cc jo, ka by photography (top); smith jason by photography over and over again, while most can’t In her emotional debut novel, Ava Medical Center, assumes the presi- of diabetes, hypertension, obesity, seum, which has multiple locations in even start? The authors spent the Dellaira explores the cathartic power dency of the American College of and heart disease.” Vienna, includes collections and ex- past nine years exploring this ques- of writing. Protagonist Laurel, gut- Cardiology in January after serving hibitions about the city’s history, art, tion, talking with exceptional leaders ted by the recent passing of her older as president-elect in 2014. Williams AN ADVOCATE FOR AIDS CARE fashion, and culture. of innovation across the globe, in in- sister, May, found comfort in writing advocates a plant-based diet free of John Peller, MPP’00, became presi- dustries ranging from filmmaking to to Kurt Cobain as part of a freshman WHAT I FOUND OUT ABOUT HER: STORIES OF animal products, which he adpoted in dent and CEO of the AIDS Foun - CROSSING ACADEMIC BORDERS e-commerce. Collective Genius distills writing assignment—so she kept go- DREAMING AMERICANS 2003 in a successful effort to reduce dation of Chicago in September. R. Scott Appleby, AM’79, PhD’85, their findings. The book provides a ing and wrote to Janis Joplin, Amelia By Peter LaSalle, AM’72; University of Working with the organization since has been appointed founding dean practical tool for leaders seeking to Earhart, River Phoenix, and many Notre Dame Press, 2014 2005, Peller led its state lobbying of the University of Notre Dame’s build and sustain a culture of innova- other departed figures. The letters In this collection of 11 stories, Peter efforts as vice president of policy, Donald R. Keough School of Global helped Laurel unpack her feelings LaSalle explores the everyday lives of and most recently served as interim Affairs. A professor of history and a for May and develop a deeper under- protagonists including a college stu- president and CEO. An advocate for scholar of global religious movements, standing of her late sister, shortcom- dent studying in Paris, a Hollywood affordable access to HIV medica - Appleby has been a Notre Dame fac- ings and all. screenwriter, and a disillusioned FBI tions, Peller’s efforts have included ulty member since 1994. Previously agent. Despite their diverse back- the HIVHealthReform.org project, director of the Kroc Institute for In- PHOTOGRAPHIC THEORY: AN HISTORICAL grounds and situations, each character which educates patients about the Af- ternational Peace Studies, Appleby ANTHOLOGY senses his or her life taking on the sur- fordable Care Act. will lead the first new college or school Edited by Andrew E. Hershberger, real texture of a haunting dream. For at Notre Dame in nearly a century. AM’96; Wiley Blackwell, 2014 LaSalle, this “old reality/unreality HOME FOR THE HUMANITIES The Keough School’s research will Winner of a 2015 Insight Award from conundrum … pretty much defines Chicago Humanities Festival artis- focus on international development, the Society for Photographic Educa- what can be the true experience of our tic director Matti Bunzl, PhD’98, peace, human rights, and governance. tion, Photographic Theory presents a time on this planet.” will leave the position after the an- — Jason Kelly collection of readings about the his- —Ingrid Gonçalves, AB’08

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From the editor: The Boston Bar As- send your news to: James Lawrence come a lawyer).economic She principles. has an active private American University Washington Col- Standish (Stan) Willis, AB’71, AM’73, sociation has announced that Jac- Fuchs,American AB’76, University AM’77, Washington PhD’83. Email: Col - in-law,practice, and using oldest movement daughter andare alsothe plasticalumni.- [email protected]. Kline, MAT’14, received a 2014 callsthey the are book glowing a “timely inand Chicago. stimulating lege of Law 2013, passed the Texas Bar, and gave us an update on his law practice and 76 quelynne Bowman, AB’79 (Class [email protected] of Law 2013, passed the Texas Bar, and Heity canof the be braincontactedKIRKUS to create REVIEWSat [email protected]. better habits and Knowlessend your Science news Teaching to: Ste Foundationven Kailes, historical anthology,” saying, “even readers now works as an associate in the DC office human rights work. Stan is a Chicago at- of 1976), will serve as a member of the asso- now worksJonathan as an Koppassociate, AB’77, in the DC has office been improvedIn his last function update for to herAlumni clients. News, She Kenspe- teachingAB’60, fellowship. Apt. 8L, She 3430 is one North of 32 Lakeearly- who—Judith are very E. familiarStein, AB’62, with the AM’64 topic will be of Bracewell & Giuliani. This family just torney specializing in personal injury, ciation’s governing council for the 2014–15 of Bracewellpromoted & Giuliani. to associate This family princi just- Leonardcializes in, helping AB’60, chronic MBA’66, pain mentionedpatients but careerShore science, Dr., Chicago, technology, IL 60657. engineering, Phone: able to make many discoveries thanks to the can’t stop connecting with major power criminal defense, and federal rights cases. program year, effective September 1, 2014. 77can’t palstop in connecting the Washington, with major DC, power of - thathas also he had worked become with an professional activist in the athletes, Death and/or773.528.3775. mathematics Email (STEM): [email protected]. teachers se- anthology.” Photographic Theory was nomi- Give a players of the world. Most of his civil rights practice involves Bowman is also the executive director of ficeplayers of internationalof the world. engineering firm withcreaky Dignity baby boomers, movement. and Since people then with he neu has- lectedClassmates, from more than keep 180 an applicants. eye out for The an nated for an Insight Award from the Society Standish (Stan) Willis, AB’71, AM’73, suits against police for acts of violence and Greater Boston Legal Services, the primary ThorntonStandish Tomasetti. (Stan) Willis, AB’71, AM’73, joinedrological the disorders. board of AnitaHemlock is currently of Illinois editor or comprehensiveemail invite fi ve-year to a daytime fellowship webinar offers on forIn Photographic April 2014 Education. Paul Waltz, SB’61, gave us an update on his law practice and HOI, a subsidiary of the nationally known campus in November. MBA’67, died, and Alan E. Boughner, abuse. He chairs the Chicago chapter of the provider of free civil legal assistance to low- gavesend us an your update news on his to: law Julian practice Brown, and in chief of the Feldenkrais Journal. She lives stipends,61 funds for professional develop- human rights work. Stan is a Chicago at- National Conference of Black Lawyers and income people in Boston and 31 surrounding humanAB’77, rights AM’78, work. 2503 Stan Elmen is a ChicagoSt., Hous at- Finalwith herExit husband, Network. dogs, “In and September cats on five we ment,Louise grants Sweet for Combsteaching, AB’61, materials, wrote and to SOCIALAB’61, SCIENCESdied in June DIVISION 2014. They were part torney specializing in personal injury, is a member of the Cook County Bar Asso- cities and towns. She had been deputy di- torneyton, TX specializing 77019. Email: in [email protected]. personal injury, hostedacres in an the international backcountry conference of northeast with San opportunitiesme recently trying for leadership to find Joyce development Borkin, Thomasof a group Mullaney of friends, AM’68, who lived is busierat 5400 gift that criminal defense, and federal rights cases. ciation and the National Lawyers Guild. rector of GBLS and was formerly the man- criminalSusan defense, Sered and, AB’78,federal rights a sociology cases. leadingDiego County. activists from all over the world andAB’62; mentoring. Marlene Lauren Lazar Erezbegan, AB’63 her fi rst (Class year thanGreenwood ever in hiswhen quasi-retirement. we were undergradu He has- Most of his civil rights practice involves Stan also serves as a faculty lecturer for aging attorney of its family law unit. 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Your current Postbaccalaureate Premedical Program Maggie (Woehrle) Palu, AB’71, sends Maggie always has plenty hikes,will and help volunteers you realize with your several dreams. organi- ajoined chronicle up with of Patton her family’s at Reims.” recent Maggie trav - hikes,Robert and Keller volunteers, DB’61, with AB’62, several PhD’67, organi- namedjoinedBrian upWoodward D. with Smith Patton, MFA’89, Court, at Reims.” now took gone aMaggie sabbat- en - BarAllen) Association. and the Zetlands The office, (Fran whichand Dan) she by supplying regular funding you income in return, such as support is important. zations• For women for recreation. and men changing She hopes career direction“our work elsreflects, through “I Europe.wish I had Maggie made the always trip years has of news and achievementsthe university of achicagozations Western for magazine Washington recreation. | Shenov–dec University hopes 2014“our profes- work 65 icaltirely),reflects, from mentioned teaching“I wish I andrecentlyhad receivedmade in the this an trip column artist’s years assumedto their home July 1,in puts Highland Wolpert Park, on IL,track for to a for University departments, a charitable remainder trust It’s not too late to schedules will allow us to retire in the next It’s not too late to sorschedules and Academy will allow for us Lifelong to retire Learningin the next grantby Max from Liberles the Vermont, AB’61. 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It’s avail- health background will certainly reverber- From the editor: Karl Run , AB’98, is ableUniversity on Amazon andoF atChi premiere.fastpencilCago Press ate in a positive way. happy to announce the publication of .com/incarnate. Jim says that it is a scary, Next up is Felix G. Poggemann, AB’96, 98 his novel The Rum and the Fury, avail- Stephen King–like reincarnation thriller. who hails from California and shares this able at Amazon and Smashwords. The book send yournovember news to: Pete Douglass, testimonial with us. is a dark comedy satirizing contemporary A B’70, MD’74. Email: edouglass@comcast TRYING to FIND “I have now been married 21 years to college life, politics, and conceptions of na- . n e t . Jenn Poggemann. We met in high school. tional decline. More details can be found at Dear Class of 1971, happy fall into My oldest son, Mason, just graduated from Runft’s blog: karlrunft.com. winter! I know you are all busy with UCHICAGO FRIENDS high school and headed off to college (not send your news to: Elaine Chang, 71 putting together the holidays, work, the U of C) at the end of August. I have two AB’98. Email: [email protected]. relatives, weather, and what not. But please more kids in high school and yet two more From the editor: In June Stephen try to fi nd time in your busy schedules to on TWITTER? in elementary school. After spending three Sieck, AB’99, was honored by send news about you and your achieve- years hiding from a poor local economy as 99 Lawrence University in Appleton, ments, milestones, publications, epipha- an employee of another law firm, I just WI, with the school’s Young Teacher nies, family, friends, colleagues, and any struck back out on my own on August 1. Award, recognizing demonstrated excel- news you would like to share in our column. “All told, life is pretty good.” lence in the classroom and the promise of Caroline Heck Miller, AB’71, formerly Being married for double-digit years is a continued growth. An assistant professor our high-profi le lawyer in the Miami US very big deal. Kudos, and for your fi ve off- of music and codirector of choral studies at Attorney’s Offi ce, is now comfortably set- spring too (count: Mason, Spencer, Mer- Lawrence, Sieck directs the Viking Cho- tling into her new post as Department of cedes, Jared, and Lissy)! Spawning off to rale and codirects the Cantala women’s Justice attaché at the US embassy in Lon- Let us help. The @UChicagoAlumni account be your own boss takes courage, energy, choir and the concert choir. Sieck also acts don. We previously reported in our May– and gumption, so high 10. May your client as music director for First Presbyterian June columnMr. Je thatFF Carolineerson would and assume acts as a connecting hub for alumni. Send us a list beget itself at the Law Offi ce of Felix G. Church in Neenah, WI. the postthe but we g didiant not haveMoose the details of tweet identifying yourself as a grad, and we’ll Poggemann in Folsom, CA. send your news to: Julie Leicht- her job or her news about the experience. follow you. Follow us back to get up-to-the Speaking of spawning, begetting, and man, AB’99. Email: uchicago99news As attaché,Natural she “isHistory there onin behalf Early of the offspring, we would like to thank Kather- @gmail.com. Department ofAmerica Justice’s Office of Inter- minute class notes and find UChicago friends. ine Muhlenkamp, our alumni news editor national Affairs, which implements US at the Magazine, to the nth power for all of treatiesLee like theaL anmutual dU assistancegatkin treaty 15TH REUNION June 4–7, 2015 her dedicated work—we bade her farewell and“Fast-paced, extradition snappy, treaty.” and Caroline suspenseful.” reports at the start of September so that she could Cheers to the class of 2000 for an that in addition—Financial to conducting Times the nation’s prepare for lots of bonding time with her extremely productive year, judging business in London, she is roaming the daughter. Good luck with the pregnancy, 00 by all the great personal and profes- city’s ancient sites and reveling in asso- and we will miss you! sional news we received in recent months. ciations unthought of since English-major In sum: don’t be left behind. Kindly Let’s end the year celebrating a few more days: “An audience-participationdecember produc- send timely and scintillating news to your accomplishments. tion of Thomas Otway’s Venice Preserv’d ; fully engaged class cocorrespondents, Jeff Jared Ortiz, AB’00, has founded the Alexander Pope’s contribution to Kew Hjelt, AB’96, or Jenny Olaya, AB’96. You Saint Benedict Forum, an institute of Palace in Kew Gardens (a dog collar in- HAVE can then laminate the news you fed to us Catholic thought, culture, and evangeli- scribed ‘I am his Highness’ dog at Kew; and unabashedly display it on your refrig- zation. Last year he library chicago of welcomed university apf4-00238, archive, photographic uchicago his second Pray tell me sir, whose dog are you?’); erator. Muchas gracias, and happy 2015! child, Miriam Day Ortiz. His son, Bene- regular visits to the Crown Prosecution PHOTOS send your news to: Jeff Hjelt, AB’96. dict, is four years old. Jared is in his third Service, located at Chaucer-evoking Email: jhjelt@uchicago .edu. Or Jenny Ola- year of teaching Catholic Studies at Hope Southwark Bridge (‘Bifil that in that se- ya, AB’96. Email: [email protected]. College in Holland, MI. “Life is very son, on a day / In Southwerk at the Tabard to SHARE? In September, I was honored to have good. Deo gratias,” he writes. as I lay / Redy to wenden on my pilgrimage been chosen as the sole subject of Matthew C. Dean, AB’00, was ap- / To Canterbury with ful devout corage’).” 97 a public art piece. The project was pointed director of chapel operations for Caroline remarks, “It just goes to show sponsored by the Washington, DC, Com- the University earlier this year, overseeing that you never know what is going to mission on the Arts and Humanities as artistic and ceremonial administration and happen to you in this world.” Caroline is part of the 5x5 project and is one of just planning for Rockefeller Chapel and Bond very appreciative and level-headed about 25 public art pieces installed around the Chapel. [For more, see “Grace note,” page her great success.sword She Fsaysish when people city. I was chosen from among a number 20.—Ed.] He encourages alumni to write ask her how she got this fabulous job, she of DC residents nominated by members him at [email protected] for a tour or replies thatA Biographyshe is “an overnight of the success, Post them at of the community as unsung heroes who to share a chapel memory. Matt was also after 35 yearsOcean at the GladiatorDepartment of Justice.” facebook.com/UChicagoAlumni. should be honored in Nonument Park— recently elected to the Arts Alumni Net- Caroline already has a U of C class- “a temporary sculpture park featuring work Board of Directors. He is an active mate scheduledriChard to visit eLL foris Thanksgiv- While you’re there, take a look at the Facebook ‘monuments’ devoted not to the great but performer, traveling to four cities with the ing—Helen Wilbur, AB’70, the gorgeous, “A fascinating dip into the history and Directory for a list of other Facebook pages and to ordinary people, to the ideals of de- Newberry Consort this year. He released genius former roommate of yours truly in biology of a seagoing sabre fighter.” mocracy, and to the common struggles of an album with the Schola Antiqua on the “little Pierce.” Classmates may reach her at groups for UChicago alumni. —Nature humanity.” The artist Jennifer Wen Ma Naxos label in October. He lives in Oak [email protected]. used perennials coated in black ink to cre- Park, IL, with his family, including his John Tweed, AB’71, and his wife, Shei- ate a planted portrait of me. Amazingly wife, Katie (Steffes) Dean, AB’01. la, retiredVisit http://bit.ly/freebkthis year as attorneys for theto en- enough, the portrait garden is a block away Uma Gunasekaran, AB’00, finished ergy giant Kinderget your Morgan copy! Inc. in Houston. from where I live. It is certainly a unique her endocrinology training at Vanderbilt John has worked as an energy regulatory honor and a surreal experience to see my University in Nashville, TN, and moved lawyerthe University for 40 years. o JohnF Chi says,Cago “We Press hope likeness portrayed in plants, but what else to Dallas last year with her husband and to spend awww.press.uchicago.edu good deal of our post-employ- could a city-dwelling farm girl ask for? two sons, ages 4 and 1.5. 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Phoenix Society members lead the way in supporting the University’s students, faculty, resources, and facilities through estate commitments and life-income arrangements. Such gifts provide important ways to strengthen and sustain the University’s future. The names below represent members welcomed into the society from July 1, 2013, through June 30, 2014. All names are listed per member request.

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Anonymous Margaret Bray Frank Eaman II, AB’67 Anonymous, PhB’46 Matthew Brislawn, JD’59 Sally Connelly Euson and Anonymous, AM’54 A. Keith Brown, SB’69* David Euson, MBA’83 Anonymous, AB’56, SB’58 Nancy Brown, AB’62, AM’63, Barbara Feldacker, SM’65, and Bruce Feldacker, JD’65 Anonymous, JD’57, and and Robert Brown, SM’60, Anonymous, AM’56, PhD’58 PhD’64 Honor Ferretti and Eugene Ferretti, MBA’77 Anonymous, AB’62 L. Michael Cantor, MBA’89 Stanley F. Friedman Anonymous, AB’63, AM’65, John Cash, AM’74, PhD’83 JD’67 Lewis Collens, JD’66 Edward Futch, AB’74 Anonymous, SB’65, SM’66, Lawrence Corneck, JD’71 Nina Garfield and Dr. Sanford PhD’69 Garfield, PhD’74 Darrell Cronan, MBA’00 Anonymous, MBA’70 Carole Goodwin, AM’71, Melinda Daniels PhD’74 Anonymous, MBA’74 Katharine Darrow, AB’65, and Susanne Gottfried and Gary Anonymous, MBA’77 Peter Darrow, JD’67 Gottfried, MFA’75 Anonymous, LAB’77 Michael Daus, AB’13 Donald Green, AM’55 Sally Akan, AB’62 Hugh De Santis, AM’73, John Grimes, AB’52, JD’55, Ruth Ames and Dr. Gerard PhD’78 MBA’61 Ames, AB’66 Anthony DeChellis, MBA’01 Ruth Heyn, MD’47 Ralph Apton, AB’50, MBA’54 Marianne Deson Gail Hodges and Vincent Bates, MBA’62 John Doerge Jr., MBA’88 Jim Hodges Jr., MBA’62 Judith Bausch Constance Dunn, MBA’81 Christopher Holabird, SM’52 Michele Marie White, AB’82 Stephen Duvall, ThM’69, Dee Ann Holisky, AB’69, Beth Binford DMN’71 AM’74, PhD’80 With Gratitude For Your Support

Phoenix Society members lead the way in supporting the University’s students, faculty, resources, and facilities through estate commitments and life-income arrangements. Such gifts provide important ways to strengthen and sustain the University’s future. The names below represent members welcomed into the society from July 1, 2013, through June 30, 2014. All names are listed per member request.

We invite you to join the Phoenix Society by providing for the University in your financial and estate plans. Please visit phoenixsociety.uchicago.edu or call 866.241.9802 for more information.

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Anonymous Margaret Bray Frank Eaman II, AB’67 Michael Karr, MBA’74 Rubina Oremus Mary Rose Shaughnessy, Anonymous, PhB’46 Matthew Brislawn, JD’59 Sally Connelly Euson and Martha Klemm and James John Paulus, PhD’72 PhD’73 Anonymous, AM’54 A. Keith Brown, SB’69* David Euson, MBA’83 Klemm, SB’61 Richard Prairie, AB’56, SB’57, Robert Sherwin, JD’78 Anonymous, AB’56, SB’58 Nancy Brown, AB’62, AM’63, Barbara Feldacker, SM’65, and Michael Klowden, AB’67 PhD’61 Linnea Sodergren, AM’72 Bruce Feldacker, JD’65 Anonymous, JD’57, and and Robert Brown, SM’60, Mary Kostopoulos, AB’98 Catherine Mary Rafferty, AB’88, P. Eric Souers, AB’64, JD’70 PhD’64 Honor Ferretti and Eugene Anonymous, AM’56, PhD’58 Evelyn Kritchevsky AM’88 Janis Starkey, AB’68 L. Michael Cantor, MBA’89 Ferretti, MBA’77 Anonymous, AB’62 Zbigniew Anthony Kruszewski, Dr. Mark Ragozzino Doris Sternberg, LAB’43 John Cash, AM’74, PhD’83 Stanley F. Friedman Anonymous, AB’63, AM’65, PhD’67 Dorothy Rappeport Helen Sunukjian, PhD’55 JD’67 Lewis Collens, JD’66 Edward Futch, AB’74 Phyllis Lovrien, MBA’84 Crennan Ray Yvonne Sutor, AB’72 Anonymous, SB’65, SM’66, Lawrence Corneck, JD’71 Nina Garfield and Dr. Sanford Ivan Manson, PhB’48, SM’54 Anne Reboredo, AB’04 Kaimay Yuen Terry, AM’64, PhD’69 Garfield, PhD’74 Darrell Cronan, MBA’00 Janet Westin, AB’76, and Leslie Recht, AB’70 and Dr. Joseph Terry Carole Goodwin, AM’71, Anonymous, MBA’70 Michael McCaw, AB’76 Melinda Daniels PhD’74 Maxine Reneker, AM’70 Paul Voegeli, JD’71 Anonymous, MBA’74 Janis McGowan, AM’82, and Katharine Darrow, AB’65, and Susanne Gottfried and Gary Alan Rose Norma Vogelweid, AM’75 Anonymous, MBA’77 Peter Darrow, JD’67 James Henderson Gottfried, MFA’75 Joan Lundberg Rowland, Joseph Vuillemin, PhD’65 Anonymous, LAB’77 Michael Daus, AB’13 Joanne Medak, AM’74 Ph B ’4 6 Donald Green, AM’55 Sarita Warshawsky Sally Akan, AB’62 Hugh De Santis, AM’73, Leonard Miller, PhD’64 Jennifer Scanlon, AB’81, and John Grimes, AB’52, JD’55, Joan Weinberg and Michael PhD’78 Neil C. Miller Jr. James Scanlon Ruth Ames and Dr. Gerard MBA’61 Weinberg Jr., LAB’43, AB’47 Ames, AB’66 Anthony DeChellis, MBA’01 Karen Minge, AM’65, and Gilbert Schechtman, AB’51, Ruth Heyn, MD’47 Dennis R. Williams, MBA’65 Ralph Apton, AB’50, MBA’54 Marianne Deson David Minge, JD’67 AM’54 Gail Hodges and Irma Wirawan, MPP’03 Vincent Bates, MBA’62 John Doerge Jr., MBA’88 Jim Hodges Jr., MBA’62 Robert Moyers, AB’70 Susan Sclafani, AM’67 Rose W. M. Lee Yuen and Judith Bausch Donna Murasky, JD’72 Hugh Scogin, AM’75 Constance Dunn, MBA’81 Christopher Holabird, SM’52 Francis Tin Fan Yuen, AB’75 Michele Marie White, AB’82 Stephen Duvall, ThM’69, Dee Ann Holisky, AB’69, Rita Norton, AB’42 Craig Selders, MBA’90 Beth Binford DMN’71 AM’74, PhD’80 Mary Olson, AM’66 Kim Sharan, MBA’95 *Deceased he served as deputy medical director of Memorial Chapel, where her husband deaths the Peace Corps and as assistant surgeon served as director of music, and at venues general of the United States, achieving around Chicago. She worked in various the rank of rear admiral in the US Public offices at the University before opening a Faculty and StaFF Health Service. Among his achievements real estate office in Hyde Park, which she were helping to create federal regulations operated for 30 years. She is survived by Rory W. Childers, professor of medicine, for nursing home and mining safety, and two daughters, including Ann Vikstrom, died August 27 in Southampton, NY. He helping to establish the Medicare program. LAB’78; son Carl Vikstrom, AB’69; and was 83. An expert on use of the electro- He is survived by two sons, two grandchil- four grandchildren. Her husband, Rich- cardiogram (ECG) and interpretation of dren, and three great-grandchildren. ard E. Vikstrom, AA’36, AM’55, died in its results, Childers pioneered the use of Donald Edwin Funk, SB’44, died Decem- 1986. Her son Richard Andrew Vikstrom, ECGs in ambulances so that patients could ber 24, 2013, in Willow Grove, PA. He was LAB’80, died in 2013. receive treatment more quickly and was at 91. A WW II Army Air Corps veteran, Lillian Cohen Kovar, AM’42, PhD’48, the forefront of computerizing the diag- Funk practiced law for more than six de- died July 17 in Macungie, PA. She was 95. nosis of disorders detected by the test. In cades, retiring in 2012. An avid traveler, he Kovar was a professor emerita of sociol- 2011 he was elected president of the Inter - visited more than 40 countries. Survivors ogy at Bronx Community College of the national Society of Computerized Electro- include his wife, Dorothy; a daughter; a City University of New York and had also cardiology. Childers won the Teacher of son; and a grandson. taught at Bard College and the University of the Year Award from the Pritzker School Richard Rider, A A’44, of Mill Valley, CA, Michigan. She was the author of books that of Medicine’s Cardiology Section so of- died June 24. He was 90. Rider was a long- included Faces of the Adolescent Girl (1968) ten that in 2005 it was renamed the Rory time general surgeon at Franklin Hospital and Here to Complete Dr. King’s Dream: The Childers Teaching Award. He is survived (later known as Ralph K. Davies Hospital) Triumphs and Failures of a Community College by his wife, Michele, and two sons, includ- in San Francisco and served as medical di - (1996). She is survived by two daughters, a ing Daniel A. Childers, LAB’84. rector of the Crossroads Home Care and son, a sister, and a grandson. Shutsung Liao, PhD’61, died July 20 in Hospice facility. Rider specialized in car- Alice Bro Racher, AM’48, of Flossmoor, Chicago. He was 83. Professor emeritus in ing for the elderly and homebound and was IL, died July 20. She was 90. Racher prac- UChicago’s Ben May Department for Can- one of the physicians who treated the first ticed medicine in Chicago for nearly three cer Research, Liao was a pioneering bio- patients diagnosed in the AIDS epidemic. decades, working at the University of Il- chemist whose discoveries included how He is survived by five children, a brother, linois Hospitals, the Cook County Public male hormones influence the development and ten grandchildren. Health Department, Project Head Start, of prostate cancer. The first director of the Betty J. (Soderstrom) McHie, SB’45, died and children’s clinics in East Chicago Tang Center for Chinese Herbal Medicine August 31 in Easton, MD. She was 91. A Heights. A longtime Park Forest Public Research, he founded the North Ameri- homemaker, McHie was a lifelong volun- Library trustee, she taught adult education can Taiwanese Professors’ Association. teer who gave a great deal of time to her poetry classes at Governors State Univer- Liao published more than 250 papers, was church’s school program, altar guild, wom- sity. She is survived by a daughter, Anne awarded 29 patents, and won many pro- en’s circle, and community outreach; she Racher Boguslavsky, AB’81; two sons; fessional honors, including being named a also enjoyed reading, gardening, and cross- a brother, Andrew H. Bro, DB’57; seven fellow of the American Association for the word puzzles. She is survived by two daugh- grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. Advancement of Science. He is survived by ters; two sons; a sister, Shirley Greene, Ralph Turner, PhD’48, of Pacific Palisades, his wife, Shuching; four daughters, Jane PhB’46; four granddaughters; three grand- CA, died April 5. He was 94. A US Navy Liao, LAB’80, Tzufen Liao, LAB’81, Tzum- sons; and three great-granddaughters. veteran, Turner was a distinguished soci- ing Liao, LAB’83, and May Liao, LAB’85; Catherine (Kyros) Retson, AB’45, died ologist who spent 42 years on the faculty of and two granddaughters. July 22 in Appleton, WI. She was 91. Her the University of California, Los Angeles. Brenton Wright, AB’10, master electrician first job was as an editor at Consolidated He edited numerous professional journals at Court Theatre, died August 7 in Bishop, Publishing Company in Chicago. After and published eight books, including Collec- CA, of injuries sustained in a climbing ac- moving to Wisconsin with her husband, tive Behavior (with Lewis Killian, PhD’49, cident. He was 27. Wright began working she enjoyed travel in the United States, 1957). He also served as president of the as an electrician and sound designer in Europe, and North Africa and was a dedi- American Sociological Association and was high school; as an undergraduate, he was cated volunteer at her church. Survivors in- a fellow of the American Academy of Arts a technician at Mandel Hall and worked as clude three daughters; two sons; a brother, and Sciences. Survivors include a daughter, a sound engineer and lighting director for George Kyros, MBA’70; two sisters, in- a son, and three grandchildren. events around Chicago. cluding Carol Kyros-Walker, EX’56; and Marvin B. Sullivan , SB’49, SM’53, five grandchildren. PhD’67, of St. Pete Beach, FL, died Au- 1940s James A. Servies, PhB’45, AM’50, of Pen- gust 26, 2013. He was 89. A WW II, Ko- sacola, FL, died May 30. He was 88. A vet- rean War, and Vietnam War veteran, Margaret Janssen King, AB’40, of Kings- eran of the US Air Force and the US Army Sullivan joined the Army Air Corps (now hill, Virgin Islands, died August 13. She Counterintelligence Corps, Servies began the Air Force) in 1942. Receiving the Air was 96. In the late 1960s, King and her a career in academic librarianship with a Medal in WW II and the Distinguished family moved to the Virgin Islands, where position as a stack boy at the University Flying Cross in Vietnam, Sullivan helped she was the first woman named an assistant of Chicago Library in the early 1940s; he engineer the first nuclear hardening of the manager in the Bank of America’s interna- went on to positions at other institutions’ US Air Force B1 aircraft. After retiring tional division. She was active in the Busi- libraries and retired as director of librar- from the Air Force, he researched hur - ness and Professional Women’s Club and ies at the University of West Florida. He is ricane tracking and measurement. Survi- taught business classes at the College of the survived by his wife, Lana; a daughter; two vors include his wife, Carol; a daughter; Virgin Islands (now the University of the sons; a brother, David Lawrence Servies, three sons; three grandchildren; and five Virgin Islands). Survivors include three AB’50, JD’57; seven grandchildren; and great-grandchildren. daughters, a sister, two granddaughters, a five great-grandchildren. grandson, and three great-grandchildren. Charlotte (Bernth) Vikstrom, Ph B’45 , 1950s John W. Cashman, AB’44, MD’46, died of Chicago, died August 8. She was 91. A October 18, 2013, in Tacoma, WA. He respected mezzo-soprano, Vikstrom per- George Kimball Plochmann, PhD’50, was 90. 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Layout_Deaths_Nov-Dec_v1.indd 84 10/28/14 11:16 AM 100. A WW II veteran who enlisted in Are We? The Inner Life of America’s Jews Peter G. Tribby, AB’59, MBA’60, of Chica- 1941, Plochmann had a long teaching career (1988). He was the founder of the charity go, died July 27. He was 77. Tribby worked that included many years as a professor of Mazon: A Jewish Response to Hunger. He as a corporate accountant and controller philosophy at Southern Illinois University. is survived by two daughters, a brother, for several companies, including Arthur He helped to found the SIU Press, editing and five grandchildren. Andersen, Argus, TRW Automotive, and its Philosophical Exploration series and Robert E. Nagle, JD’54, of McLean, VA, Bradner Central Company. He is survived writing or cowriting several books pub- died August 16. He was 84. During a ca- by two brothers and a sister. His wife, Ilse I. lished there. He is survived by his wife, reer in government service, Nagle was Tribby, SM’63, PhD’69, died in 2011. Carolyn; a daughter; a granddaughter; a devoted to protecting the rights and safety grandson; and a great-granddaughter. of US workers; he helped to draft legisla - 1960s Hubert E. Hermanek Sr., JD’51, of Riv- tion that included the Occupational Safety erside, IL, died July 2, 2013. He was 84. A and Health Act of 1970 and the Employee Constantine “Con” C. Patsavas, AM’60, Korean War Marine veteran, Hermanek Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. of Glen Ellyn, IL, died June 28, 2013. He practiced law for 62 years. For three de- He also served as executive director of the was 85. A Navy veteran, Patsavas taught at cades, he was active in the Riverside Aux- Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation Northern Illinois University and Glenbard iliary Police Corps, retiring at the rank of for many years and was an arbitrator and West High School before joining the Col- captain. Survivors include his wife, Betty mediator for employee benefits and labor lege of DuPage, where he was a professor Jo; a daughter; a son; four grandchildren; disputes. He is survived by a daughter, two of political science and economics for 30 and two great-grandchildren. sons, two brothers, two granddaughters, years. Patsavas also spent three decades Robert H. Collier, MBA’53, died May 25, and one grandson. with the DuPage County Sheriff’s Merit 2013, in Barrington, IL. He was 92. Collier Leonard Hersher, PhD’55, died July 11 in Commission, retiring in 2012. Survivors worked at International Harvester World Syracuse, NY. He was 89. A WW II vet - include his wife, Bertha; a daughter; and Headquarters in Chicago, retiring as direc- eran, Hersher served in the US Army as a sister. tor of purchasing and traffic. Survivors in- a communications officer in France and Charles Payne, EX’60, died August 1 in clude his wife, Rosemary, and a sister. was awarded a Purple Heart. He spent 37 Chicago. He was 89. A WW II veteran, Raymond C. Gosda, AM’53, died June 19 years on the faculty of the pediatrics de- Payne was a leader in early automation in Clifton Park, NY. He was 96. A WW partment at the State University of New systems for libraries and was UChicago’s II veteran who trained dogs for recon - York’s Upstate Medical University. Sur- first systems librarian. He helped to lead naissance, Gosda began his career as an vivors include his wife, Hilda; a daughter; the creation and implementation of the educational administrator on the island of two sons; nine grandchildren; and five University’s Library Data Management Truk in what is now the Federated States of great-grandchildren. System, one of the first such systems in the Micronesia. Beginning in 1960, he served Stanley Reiter, AM’50, PhD’55, died country, and retired in 1995 as the library’s as a community development adviser for August 9 in Evanston, IL. He was 89. An assistant director for systems. Payne the Agency for International Develop - expert in the field of mechanism design, was the great-uncle of President Barack ment and was posted to Iran, Malawi, and Reiter was professor emeritus of manage - Obama. He is survived by his wife, Mela- Thailand. He is survived by a son and a rial economics and decision sciences, eco- nie S. Payne, AM’63; his son, Richard C. granddaughter. nomics, and mathematics at Northwestern Payne, LAB’87; and a brother. Willis E. Elliott II, PhD’54, died July 5 in University’s Kellogg School of Manage- Kenneth Keefe Chalmers Jr., MBA’62, Kearney, NE. He was 96. A distinguished ment, where he founded the Center for died July 19, 2013, in Evanston, IL. He was theologian, Elliott was an ordained United Mathematical Studies in Economics and 83. A Navy veteran, Chalmers worked at Church of Christ and American Baptist Management Science. Reiter’s four books the Continental Illinois National Bank minister who taught religion at Ottawa include Designing Economic Mechanisms and Trust Company (now Bank of Amer- University in Kansas, the University of (2006). He is survived by his wife, Nina; ica), rising to executive vice president and Hawaii, and several theological seminar- a daughter; and a son. head of the special industries department. ies. The author of five books, he also wrote John E. Sundeen, AB’59, died October He retired in 1994. In addition to serving for the On Faith project of Newsweek and 31, 2013, in Milwaukee. He was 77. Start- as treasurer for Illinois governor James the Washington Post. Survivors include his ing his career as a securities statistician for Thompson’s Cost Control Task Force, wife, Loree; a son; a granddaughter; and a the University of Chicago, Sundeen then Chalmers was the president of the Win- grandson. worked for the National Association of netka (IL) Police Pension Fund and a com- George W. Hilton, AM’50, PhD’56, died Securities Dealers as an examiner and su- missioner of the Winnetka Park District. August 4 in Columbia, MD. He was 89. A pervisor, as compliance director for several He is survived by his wife, Georganne; a longtime professor of economics and trans- broker-dealers, and as senior vice president daughter; a son; and five grandchildren. portation regulation at the University of of Robert W. Baird in Milwaukee. He Robert D. Snider, AM’63, died July 5 in California, Los Angeles, Hilton was a well- helped develop the Value Line Compos- Ashland, OR. He was 77. Snider studied known railroad historian who authored 15 ite Index, making the Kansas City Board political science at the graduate level at the books, including The Ma and Pa: A History of Trade the first market for trading stock University of Washington and the Univer- of the Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad index futures. Retiring in 2002, Sundeen sity of Toronto, and taught college courses (1963). A lifelong Chicago White Sox fan, became an arbitrator for the National As- in political science, grant administration, he also edited The Annotated Baseball Sto- sociation of Securities Dealers (now the and legal research at institutions in Seattle, ries of Ring W. Lardner, 1914–1919 (1995). Financial Industry Regulatory Author- Alaska, and Chicago. Survivors include He is survived by four stepdaughters and ity). He is survived by his wife, Elizabeth; his wife, Hideko T. Snider, AM’60; three two stepsons. His second wife, Constance two sons; and three grandchildren. stepdaughters; a stepson; a brother; and a (Slater) Hilton, PhB’45, died in 2005. Richard Wolfert, AM’59, a librarian, died sister. Leonard Fein, AB’54, AM’58, died Au- November 25, 2013, in Fargo, ND. He was Brent Gabler, MBA’67, of Bradenton, FL, gust 14 in New York City. He was 80. With 84. After working at libraries in Chicago died June 27, 2012. He was 74. An engi- Elie Wiesel he founded the magazine Mo- and Wisconsin, he became director of the neer, Gabler was corporate vice president ment, serving as its editor from 1975 to North Dakota State Library. In retire - of manufacturing and engineering and 1987. Fein was a columnist for the Jewish ment, Wolfert was a massage therapist in corporate vice president of international Daily Forward and a contributor to the New Bismarck, ND, and Fargo. He is survived procurement at Tropicana Products. After York Times, the New Republic, and other by his wife, Ruth Wirtzfeld; two daugh- retiring, he cofounded a consulting com- publications. His books include Where ters; and five grandchildren. pany, Creative Citrus Services. Survivors

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Layout_Deaths_Nov-Dec_v1.indd 85 10/28/14 11:16 AM include his wife, Lorraine; five daughters; Tom Kessinger, AM’68, PhD’72, died Gen Re insurance company, from which he a son; a sister; and ten grandchildren. July 4 in Annapolis, MD. He was 73. Kes - retired in 2008. He enjoyed traveling and George P. Turner, MFA’67, of St. Charles, singer taught South Asian history at the was an active volunteer in his church. He is IL, died July 18. He was 70. A US Army University of Virginia and the University survived by six cousins. veteran, Turner was a painter who worked of Pennsylvania before joining the Ford Charles Blachut, MBA’83, of Elk Grove in multiple media and styles; two of his Foundation in 1976. In 1988, he became Village, IL, died August 30. He was 81. paintings are held in the collection of the president of Haverford College, leaving A US Army veteran who worked for Peo- Art Institute of Chicago, and many of his after eight years to become the general ple’s Gas Light & Coke Co. for 50 years, works appeared in exhibitions and galler - manager of the Aga Khan Trust for Cul- Blachut was a dedicated volunteer who ies in the United States, Germany, and the ture and, later, the Aga Khan Founda - was particularly active in his children’s Virgin Islands. He is survived by his wife, tion, both in Geneva. He is survived by his activities: he was a scoutmaster, a member Judy; a daughter; and a son. wife, Varyam; two sons; a sister; and five of the Lone Tree Area Girl Scout Council, Rick L. Prieto, MBA’69, of Evanston, grandchildren. and a volunteer for the Maine-Niles As- IL, died October 28, 2013. He was 70. Norman Lehrer, AB’72, of Wheaton, IL, sociation of Special Recreation. He is sur- After working as an engineer and market- died July 8. He was 68. A US Army vet- vived by a daughter, a son, a brother, and a ing manager in Chicago, Prieto became eran who served as a criminal investiga- granddaughter. a general manager of manufacturing in tion detective in Germany, Lehrer later Nicholas Newlin Perry Jr. , A B’84, Shanghai, China. He later taught at DeVry practiced law in Illinois for 36 years. He MBA’86, of New York City, died June 17 University’s Keller Graduate School of specialized in representing consumers who of metastatic melanoma. He was 52. Dur - Management. Survivors include his wife, had been defrauded by auto manufacturers ing his time at the University, he served as Carol; a daughter; a son; a sister; and four and dealers. He was also a firearms expert student ombudsman and was a well-known grandchildren. and taught gun-safety courses. Survivors jazz deejay on WHPK. He was an options Ellamae Branstetter, PhD’69, of Scotts- include his wife, Nancy; a daughter; a step- trader for more than 25 years, beginning dale, AZ, died April 29, 2013. She was 90. daughter; and a sister. at the Chicago Board Options Exchange One of the first three faculty members at Eric M. Stiffler, AM’72, PhD’77, died Au- and later working for several Wall Street the Arizona State University College of gust 24 in Macomb, IL. He was 67. Stiffler banks. Survivors include his wife, Funda Nursing, Branstetter was the inaugural di- joined Western Illinois University as a pro- Turgut; three daughters; a son; a brother; rector of its graduate program. Among her fessor of philosophy and religious studies and a sister. honors are the 1974 Outstanding Educator in 1977. He also served as the university’s Joani Gudeman, AM’87, died in Chicago in America award and the 1985 university- acting provost and academic vice presi- July 25 of breast cancer. She was 50. A wide Faculty Achievement Award at Ari- dent, director of the honors program, as- former hospital social worker who later zona State. Survivors include her longtime sistant provost and academic vice president worked as a psychotherapist, Gudeman friend Mary Green. for curriculum, and associate provost and became an active volunteer with the Meta- academic vice president. He is survived by static Breast Cancer Network after being 1970s his wife, Janice Owens; a daughter; three diagnosed with the disease in 2004. She sons; his parents; two brothers; two grand- served on the organization’s board, helped Agnes Burton Augustine, AM’70, died daughters; and a grandson. plan its annual conferences, and edited May 4, 2013, in Olympia Fields, IL. She Ishik (Kubali) Camoglu, AB’78, AM’79, resources including a guide for newly di- was 92. An elementary school teacher for of New York City, died of breast cancer agnosed breast cancer patients. She is sur- more than 40 years, Augustine partici- May 10. She was 58. Camoglu worked in vived by her husband, David McCarthy, pated in sled dog competitions, training finance and exporting for many years, JD’87; two sons, including Jacob McCar- and racing Siberian huskies with her hus- holding positions with large banks, found- thy, ’18; her parents; and two sisters. band, Thomas. They grew organic fruits ing a portfolio management and venture and vegetables on their Beecher, IL, farm, capital firm, and owning an agricultural 1990s and supported environmental causes. export business. She was also a contribut - Augustine also volunteered for a local ing writer to the Turkish Times on the topics Kathleen Regan, PhD’95, died July 23 in homeless shelter. She is survived by her of Turkish relations with the United States Portland, OR, of an enlarged heart. She husband, a son, a stepdaughter, a stepson, and the European Union. She is survived was 55. A professor at the University of four sisters, a granddaughter, and three by a daughter and a son. Portland for 19 years, Regan was a prolific step-grandchildren. Virginia (Schlesinger) Garbers, AM’79, author of scholarly articles and wrote, di- John Donald Gedart, MBA’70, died July of South Nyack, NY, died July 7. She was rected, and produced four films. Among 11 in Hayward, WI. He was 84. A veteran 78. During her career in marketing and her professional awards was the Carnegie of the US Air Force, Gedart was an ac - communications, Garbers helped to launch Foundation and the Council for Advance- countant and executive at companies in the firm Wood Logan Associates and later ment and Support of Education’s National Illinois and Ohio. He later owned an ac- worked with nonprofit organizations that Professor of the Year Award for Outstand- counting business and continued to work as included the Boys and Girls Clubs and ing Master’s Universities and Colleges in a seasonal tax accountant after retiring to Friends of Fenway Studios in Boston. She 20 0 0. She is survived by her partner, Mary Florida in 1992. Gedart belonged to several was a member of the board of trustees of Simon; two brothers; and five sisters. professional and service organizations. He the Edward Hopper House in Nyack. She Timothy Kuhfuss, MBA’97, died July 11 is survived by his wife, Audrey; five sons; is survived by two daughters, including in Laramie, WY, of complications from two granddaughters; and four grandsons. Alexandra Pruner, LAB’80; a son, Gor- amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). He Sally Hunter-Wiley, MBA’72, of Evan- don Gray, LAB’74; three stepdaughters, was 53. Kuhfuss began his career at the ston, IL, died August 13 of esophageal including Deborah Azrael, LAB’80, and National Institutes of Health and later cancer. She was 66. The first female media Ruth Azrael, LAB’83; a sister; and 11 became chief information officer of infor- director at the Leo Burnett advertising grandchildren. mation technology at Argonne National agency, Hunter-Wiley spent her career at Laboratory. At the time of his death, he the agency. She retired in the late 1990s 1980s was director of research support for in- and opened a farm in Wisconsin where formation technology at the University she bred and boarded dressage horses. She Joseph P. Aguanno, MBA’80, died July of Wyoming. Survivors include his wife, is survived by two daughters, her mother, 27 in Chicago after a brief illness. He was Colette; a daughter; a son; his parents; and three brothers, and a sister. 61. Aguanno spent his entire career at the two sisters.

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In recent years, the best on-campus use of a dol- The Art to Live With col- lar has been on Shake Day. Just a few decades lection is currently managed ago, that same dollar could adorn a dorm room by the Smart Museum of Art, with a Klee or Matisse. and while no pieces have been Through the Art to Live With program, stu- loaned to students for years, dents could rent a piece of fine art for $1 per aca- some works from the collec- demic quarter. The available paintings, drawings, tion are now installed in pub- and other works were displayed at the beginning lic places around campus. of each quarter in Ida Noyes Hall. Students en- For alumni either nostal- tered drawings and sometimes queued overnight gic for the Art to Live With to secure their favorite pieces, and then chosen program or sad they missed works were hung in dorms or apartments. out, the Magazine partnered The art was on loan from University trustee with the Smart Museum, Joseph Randall Shapiro, EX’34, famed art col- currently celebrating its lector and founder of the Museum of Contempo- 40th anniversary, to cu - rary Art. Shapiro’s original assemblage stood at rate a selection of fine art 50 pieces but soon ballooned to hundreds. to grace your smartphone. The $1 fee charged to students went toward in- Download a wallpaper image to your surance (other costs were underwritten by the mobile device and continue the spirit of a truly University). However, the works rarely needed uncommon University program with every text. repairs beyond the occasional glass replacement —Helen Gregg, AB’09 or frame refinishing, according to a 1967 Asso - ciated Press report about the program. Univer - Peruse the collection of smartphone-ready art—including selections by Frank Lloyd sity of Chicago students looked at the works “as Wright, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (shown), something to be revered,” Shapiro told the AP, and Raphael—and download your favorite at and treated them accordingly. mag.uchicago.edu/arttotextwith.

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In recent years, the best on-campus use of a dol- The Art to Live With col- lar has been on Shake Day. Just a few decades lection is currently managed ago, that same dollar could adorn a dorm room by the Smart Museum of Art, with a Klee or Matisse. and while no pieces have been Through the Art to Live With program, stu- loaned to students for years, dents could rent a piece of fine art for $1 per aca- some works from the collec- demic quarter. The available paintings, drawings, tion are now installed in pub- and other works were displayed at the beginning lic places around campus. of each quarter in Ida Noyes Hall. Students en- For alumni either nostal- tered drawings and sometimes queued overnight gic for the Art to Live With to secure their favorite pieces, and then chosen program or sad they missed works were hung in dorms or apartments. out, the Magazine partnered The art was on loan from University trustee with the Smart Museum, Joseph Randall Shapiro, EX’34, famed art col- currently celebrating its lector and founder of the Museum of Contempo- 40th anniversary, to cu - rary Art. Shapiro’s original assemblage stood at rate a selection of fine art 50 pieces but soon ballooned to hundreds. to grace your smartphone. The $1 fee charged to students went toward in- Download a wallpaper image to your surance (other costs were underwritten by the mobile device and continue the spirit of a truly University). However, the works rarely needed uncommon University program with every text. repairs beyond the occasional glass replacement —Helen Gregg, AB’09 or frame refinishing, according to a 1967 Asso - ciated Press report about the program. Univer - Peruse the collection of smartphone-ready art—including selections by Frank Lloyd sity of Chicago students looked at the works “as Wright, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (shown), something to be revered,” Shapiro told the AP, and Raphael—and download your favorite at and treated them accordingly. mag.uchicago.edu/arttotextwith.

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