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O’Neill, AM’04 Editorial Office The University of Chicago Magazine, 5235 South Harper Court, Chicago, IL 60615 rom the kitchen in my home, which now doubles as my office TELEPHONE 773.702.2163 and my everywhere else, I can look west at the peaks of the EMAIL [email protected] south end of campus—Rockefeller Chapel’s bell tower rising The University of Chicago Alumni Association has its offices at 5235 South Harper Court, above the rooftops, the light towers illuminating the bridges Chicago, IL 60615 that cross the Midway by night, the blocky silo of the Logan TELEPHONE 773.702.2150 ADDRESS CHANGES 800.955.0065 or Center beyond. It’s a lovely vista, especially when the sun [email protected] is setting. But I’m sure I’ve never stared at it like I have this WEB mag.uchicago.edu spring—not for as long, nor the same way. The University of Chicago Magazine The sight is freighted with melancholy now, with everything emptied (ISSN-0041-9508) is published quarterly (Fall, Fout while the life of the campus is on pause. But there’s reassurance in Winter, Spring, Summer) by the University of Chicago in cooperation with the Alumni the view as well. As a colleague put it to me after he’d visited the quads Association, 5235 South Harper Court, one evening before the stay-at-home order, even with campus at its Chicago, IL 60615, and sent to all University of quietest, the lights of UChicago are being kept on for us. Chicago alumni. Published continuously since 1907. Periodicals postage paid at Chicago and A few words about this issue, which we finished in early May from additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER Send several locations around Chicago, with understanding of COVID-19 address changes to The University of Chicago Magazine, Alumni Records, 5235 South changing daily. 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Please contact the editor with your news or letter to the editor. with any questions. In the meantime we’ll plan future issues to bring you the usual stories IVY LEAGUE MAGAZINE NETWORK Heather Wedlake, Director of Operations about faculty, alumni, and more, alongside news of how the University TELEPHONE 617.319.0995 WEB ivymags.com community is responding to the pandemic. In the COVID-19 section in EMAIL [email protected] this issue, “Together in Spirit” (page 26), we offer a bird’s-eye view of The University does not discriminate on some aspects of that response: the most critical institutional decisions; the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual how the University is helping its neighbors on the South Side; what’s orientation, gender identity, national or ethnic origin, age, status as an individual with a happening at UChicago Medicine; how faculty and students are adapt- disability, protected veteran status, genetic ing to remote education; and a glance at some of the earliest ideas and information, or other protected classes under the law. For additional information, please see research of faculty who have shifted their thinking to the pandemic equalopportunity.uchicago.edu. and its consequences. In the Summer/20 issue and beyond we’ll cover many of these subjects in greater depth. Every one of us at the Magazine wishes every one of you safety and ©istock.com/blindspot Photography by John Zich good health in the months before we next show up in your mailbox. ◆ THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE | SPRING 2020 1 UCM_Ednotes_Spring20_v1.indd 1 5/15/20 3:48 PM Vol. 112 / No. 3 SPRING 2020 mag.uchicago.edu Hyde Park on hold Spring Quarter was a quieter one on much of campus as the community took protective measures against the COVID-19 outbreak. For more on the University’s response to the pandemic, see “Together in Spirit,” page 26. Photography by John Zich On the cover: In his first official University address, President William Rainey Harper called for an intellectual community united in spirit. We take heart in the values that hold UChicagoans together not only across differences of opinion but across physical distances too. Illustration by Elvis Swift. Spring 2020 TOC_v2.indd 2 5/15/20 4:57 PM 1 Editor’s Notes 4 Letters 9 On the Agenda Features Crash course By Sean Carr, AB’90 22 College students examine ideas and stories of the 2008 Great Recession. A coach’s coach By Jeanie Chung Soccer player Len Oliver, PhD’70, put his own spin on teaching the sport and 24 training its leaders. Together in spirit By Magazine staff 26 How the University is responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. 28 Ready, set, go 30 Learning curve 32 Quick thinking 33 Beautiful somethings 34 Gallery view 36 Into the woods 37 A community together Image of health By Maureen Searcy Professor and entrepreneur Maryellen Giger, PhD’85, brings computer- 38 aided breast cancer detection and diagnosis from bench to bedside. Between the lines By Laura Demanski, AM’94 Brent Staples, AM’76, PhD’82, goes behind the work that earned him one 46 of journalism’s highest honors. Plus: One of Staples’s Pulitzer-winning columns, “The Legacy of Monticello’s Black First Family.” Photography by John Zich 11 51 UChicago Journal Peer Review Research and What alumni are news in brief thinking and doing Spring 2020 TOC_v2.indd 3 5/15/20 6:50 PM The University of Chicago Magazine welcomes letters about its contents or about the life of the University. Letters for publication must be signed and may be edited for space, clarity, Seeking leaders who and civility. To provide a range of views and voices, we encourage letter writers to limit LETTERS themselves to 300 words or fewer. While the Magazine staff works remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic, please send letters via email: [email protected]. want to change the world. technical feat. After the mov- Oh, and my favorite film? 2001: A Space ie, we’d trek to Jimmy’s and Odyssey. And yes, I saw it at Quantrell. chew over what we’d seen, Ted Dupont, AB’77 washed down by pitchers MONTCLAIR, NEW JERSEY of beer and that trademark Jimmy’s popcorn designed to make you drink even The Winter/20 issue was one of the more beer. most varied and enjoyable in some One Quantrell moment time. I particularly liked “Poster stands out: after a feature Perfect,” on Dwight M. Cleveland’s (can’t remember which), (MBA’87) collection of film posters. Doc showed a short film, Introducing the collection, Andrew obviously homemade, of Peart, AM’16, PhD’18, writes about a cars barreling down Hyde rare poster for the silent picture Men Park streets, accompanied of Steel, starring Milton Sills, AB 1903, by the screeching violin EX 1904, and Doris Kenyon, actress crescendo from Psycho. daughter of a Methodist minister.