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FALL 2017, VOLUME 110, NUMBER 1 UCH_FALL2017 cover and spine_vFinal.indd 1 10/17/17 3:31 PM 171101_SPDR_IvyChicago.indd 1 9/13/17 10:06 AM TOC_Fall17_v3.indd 1 10/24/17 2:34 PM Features 22 CORE STORIES The story of the first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction is one of science, of war, and of people. FALL 2017 34 ELEMENTAL VOLUME 110, NUMBER 1 The subject of controversy when it was commissioned, Nuclear Energy has become a constant in the UChicago landscape. By Erin Hogan, AM’91, PhD’99 36 AN ARCHIVE, CHICAGO BORN What is it like to sort through the papers of one of America’s most celebrated writers? By Susie Allen, AB’09 42 MAMMALS LIKE US Two newly discovered species bring humans closer to understanding our lineage. By Ingrid Gonçalves, AB’08 Plus: “Maroon Menagerie.” 48 FIRST PRINCIPLES Constitutional scholar Sonja R. West, JD’98, on press freedom and its future. By Carrie Golus, AB’91, AM’93 50 REFORMER REVISITED Remembering Martin Luther’s far-reaching legacy 500 years after the 95 Theses. By Martin E. Marty, PhD’56 53 SPECIAL SECTION: INQUIRY News from the Physical Sciences Division. Departments 3 EDITOR’S NOTES Chain Reflections: Remembering Chicago Pile-1.By Laura Demanski, AM’94 4 LETTERS Readers celebrate the legacy of Philip Gossett; advocate wetland restoration; correct a grotesque error; don’t want nobody nobody sent; and more. 7 ON THE AGENDA Serious inquiry, engaged scholarship. By Laurie Zoloth 9 UCHICAGO JOURNAL Nuclear Thresholds, an Gaming Orientation Week; a mathematician takes up the fight against installation piece by gerrymandering; teaching debate to eight-year-olds; reading Tyehimba Jess’s Ogrydziak Prillinger (AB’91) contrapuntal poems; robots with opinions; and more. Architects, evokes the 69 PEER REVIEW complex legacy spiraling In the alumni essay, collector and self-proclaimed “Twainiac” Ivan Kane, out from the Chicago AB’78, JD’81, remembers Mark Twain’s friendship with University of Chicago Pile-1 experiment—see professor Elizabeth Wallace. Plus: Alumni News, Deaths, and Classifieds. “Core Stories,” page 22, and “Elemental,” page 96 LITE OF THE MIND 34. Photography by The best medicine: Pritzker student Shirlene Obuobi takes a comic approach Drone Media Chicago. to medical school. By Laura Demanski, AM’94 See the print issue of the University of Chicago Magazine, web-exclusive content, and links to our Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram accounts at mag.uchicago.edu. the university of chicago magazine | fall 2017 1 TOC_Fall17_v4.indd 2 10/24/17 4:25 PM llinois governor Bruce Rauner and Chicago mayor illustration bywexford science and technology Rahm Emanuel joined President Robert J. Zimmer I at the October 19 announcement of the University photography by jean lachat; architectural of Chicago’s partnership with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to develop and commercialize new technology addressing society’s greatest challenges, from fighting cancer to producing clean water. A new and expanded Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (see rendering above) will house the initiative, which will initially focus on advanced analytics and advanced materials. At left, John Flavin, UChicago associate vice president for entrepreneurship and innovation and head of the Polsky Center (left), with University of Illinois chancellor Robert J. Jones. UCH_Wallpaper_v1.indd 2 10/24/17 2:30 PM EDITORˆS NOTES Volume 110, Number 1, Fall 2017 editor Laura Demanski, AM’94 Chain reflections senior editor Mary Ruth Yoe associate editor Susie Allen, AB’09 BY LAURA DEMANSKI, AM’94 art director Guido Mendez senior copy editor Rhonda L. 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