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ON COVER Working with Argonne National Laboratory Birger Back, Zach Grelewicz, AB’09, prepares a sensor-probe jig to measure the magnetic inside an MRI magnet adapted for use in a spectrometer. While in the College, Grelewicz worked as a paid summer intern at Argonne, where he and Back recreated the conditions inside stars and supernovae.

OPPOSITE (left to right from top) Harold Clayton Urey, the Martin A. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor in Chemistry at UChicago, received the 1934 in Chemistry for his discovery of heavy hydrogen; graduate student Ye Fu researches the biochemical function of FTO, a protein associated with human obesity, in the Gordon Center for Integrative Science; the complex oxide molecular beam epitaxy instrument in the Center for Nanoscale Materials at Argonne National Laboratory; University scientists use the South Pole Telescope to help solve the cosmological mystery of dark energy; UChicago is a founding member of the Giant Magellan Telescope Organization, a project that will peer more deeply into the universe’s history than humans have ever attempted; Argonne scientist Karena Chapman holds up a wafer of metal-organic framework ZIF-8 with its structure displayed on the computer screen; computer scientist Jean F. Hall at work on Argonne’s first digital computer, which began operation in January 1953; a superconducting radio frequency cavity at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.

1 “The most important resources at CURRICULUM UChicago are the people here. The professors are very welcoming of help from undergrads in their research. They’re willing to Advance Your Expertise invest in their students, because they know that undergrads can make At UChicago, we straddle boundaries as we seek new and A Division United Through the Physical Sciences important contributions.” better approaches to today’s scientific quandaries. The physical Division’s broad curriculum, students Michael Baumer, College Class of 2012, and biological sciences share faculty and facilities. College and can ponder the ocean’s origins as physics and mathematics well as the universe’s limits. The What he did last summer: Researched graduate students study and work together. Courses explore division’s departments share facilities, experimental fluid dynamics at the University theories and engage students in hands-on application. Through scholars, and ideas. of Chile in Santiago, an opportunity he found through the Chicago Materials Research our comprehensive, interdisciplinary programming, you’ll learn Departments Science and Engineering Center at UChicago. Astronomy and from the experts as you become one yourself. Chemistry Computer Science Getting at the Core Beyond Essentials Geophysical Sciences By partaking in The rigorous Mathematics the College’s Core education of the Physics curriculum, you’ll Division of the Statistics gain a wealth Physical Sciences of knowledge prepares students Course Sampling while developing for specialties in Introduction to Computer Vision specialties. The many fields. The Linear Models and Experimental Design liberal arts background in natural and program’s rich history includes 45 Nobel Nuclei and Elementary Particles mathematical sciences, humanities, Prizes and 9 Fields Medals, including one in Organometallic Chemistry civilization studies, and social sciences 2010. Most undergraduates in the division Spacetime and Black Holes provides a context for more advanced take advanced PhD courses during college. Statistical Thermodynamics studies and builds the most fundamental You can attain a bachelor of arts, bachelor Introduction to Stochastic Processes skill in science: the ability to continue of science, or joint bachelor of science Quantum asking questions. and master of science degree in just four years, and you’ll have the flexibility to take ABOVE (left) Assistant Professor Elisabeth Moyer courses in the University’s three other teaches an undergraduate geophysical sciences course; (right) Associate Professor Juan Collar works in the sub- divisions: Biological Sciences, Humanities, basement of the Laboratory for Astrophysics and Space and Social Sciences. Research on the UChicago campus.

“In my industry, you have teams of hundreds of , SB’91, mathematics specialists coming together to create a video game. 7 Occupation: Senior vice Rhodes Scholars I think it’s been very helpful for me to have a president and general manager of core games in the last 5 years UChicago background, where I received a solid at Media Group (tied for the most understanding of many different subjects. In my First job after college: American Rhodes Scholars career, I’ve been a programmer, a designer, a Founding president of Software. in 2011) producer, a sound engineer. If I could draw, Seropian met his business partner I would’ve tried being an artist. The greater in an understanding of the world I got at UChicago course at UChicago, has allowed me to develop expertise, so and the team went on to develop , one of I can bring all those disciplines together the most successful and effectively make one team out of the video game fran- chises of all time. many contributors.” —Alex Seropian

2Above Michael Baumer hikes in the Atacama Desert outside of Santiago, Chile, during his summer abroad experience. RIGHT Master Chief Petty Officer John-117, the protagonist of Halo and a video game icon. 3 “One reason I chose UChicago is RESEARCH that the atmosphere is very open and intellectual. There’s a special attitude toward the sciences here; people are encouraging and friendly. Explore the Unknown I have yet to meet a faculty member who isn’t excited to talk about their We believe big ideas come from fresh viewpoints. That’s why Innovative Approaches UChicago researchers work outside research and willing to have you undergraduates are valued members of UChicago research the box, fostering uncommon part- help out.” teams. Our College, graduate, and faculty scientists travel to nerships to redefine fields of study— Karmela Padavić, College Class of 2014, and create new ones. The result? Switzerland to experiment with the Large Collider—the physics and mathematics Some of the world’s most important Found at UChicago: An intellectually curious world’s largest and highest-energy —to find discoveries. community. “People here come from very the most fundamental elements in existence. They collaborate National Laboratories different backgrounds, so you can learn quite Argonne National Laboratory a bit from your peers. It’s a support system, across fields to build micro-channel plate photodetectors, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory () but it also adds to your learning process. technologies that could lead to better imaging. And they People genuinely want to talk about the UChicago Research Institutes material outside of class.” trek 300 feet underground at the Chicagoland Observatory for Computation Institute Underground to discover the of dark Institute Institute for Biophysical Dynamics matter—a mysterious substance accounting for nearly a quarter Institute for Molecular Engineering of the universe. In all our varying endeavors, we’re driven by a Institute Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics single commonality: an insatiable intellectual curiosity. UCHICAGO BREAKTHROUGHS The structure of DNA A Tradition of Collaboration An Accelerated Start Genetic links to cancer Our history of As early as day one, The mathematical theory of black holes interdisciplinary you’ll be a key player Carbon-14 dating research dates in the University’s REM sleep back to 1945, expansive research The speed of light when the James efforts, pairing with The first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear Franck Institute and professors and chain reaction the Enrico Fermi working in state-of- Proof of the big bang Institute were founded to continue the the-art facilities on campus or in either of collaboration that began on the Manhattan the two national laboratories we manage Project. Today, our new Institute for for the U.S. Department of Energy. You can Molecular Engineering, the first of its kind, pursue research in multiple laboratories will explore biomolecular engineering throughout your College experience. and nanotechnology to address societal Department-sponsored fellowships problems, from energy supply and human support students who continue research nearly health to clean water production and over the summer, and many have their quantum computing. findings published in prestigious journals. $500

ABOVE (left) Olufunmilayo Olopade, the Walter L. Palmer Distinguished Service Professor in Medicine and Human Genetics, million researches developmental factors in cancer by partnering with specialists across University divisions; (right) Peter Onyisi, in sponsored research profiled below. awards each year “In the College, I worked as a research assistant Peter Onyisi, AB’03, physics and applied mathematics at Fermilab, examining data and working on col- Occupation: Fermi Post- doctoral Research Fellow at lider detectors. That’s largely what I’m still doing the University today. It’s nice to be able to pose a question, Searching for: Why we have in the universe, find the tools you need to be able to answer it, through experiments on the Large Hadron Collider. and then answer it. That’s been possible through In the College, he won the LeRoy Apker Award, one of 4 ABOVE Karmela Padavić programs an FPGA (field-programmable gate array) board in the University’s Electronics Development the University.” —Peter Onyisi 5 Group with Tyler Lutz, a physics and English language and literature double major in the Class of 2013. the nation’s highest honors for young . “Having a background in physics is great, because you can really do anything with it. I’m an engineer, CAREERS and I think I’m more prepared than a lot of people who got very focused degrees in electrical engineering. I have different ideas because I was Discover Your Future trained to think outside the box.” Maggie Lacovara, AB’09, physics, multidis- ciplinary engineer at Raytheon Company The experience is open-ended— Professions in the Field Students gain hands-on experience Best UChicago takeaway: Problem-solving our ample resources help you choose your own trajectory. at prestigious institutions around the and communication skills. “I’ve been able The abundant opportunities on campus give you the country and throughout the world, to advance pretty quickly in my career. where many land full-time positions Having the confidence to propose new flexibility to evolve with the ever-changing fields of science, after graduation. Through Career ideas to my bosses, even though I’m the technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Our Advising and Planning Services, new kid, has been a very useful skill.” students travel the to rigorous education and supportive faculty and staff lay the network with industry leaders, and groundwork off which to catapult to your future. employers visit campus to recruit their next innovators.

An Environment of Support Garnering Prestige EMPLOYER PARTNERS SAMPLING Advising services College students Adler Planetarium through the are top earners of Argonne National Laboratory Chicago Careers Marshall, Churchill, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in Science and and Rhodes Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Technology Scholarships and CERN—The European Organization for program offer Fulbright and Nuclear Research career support National Science Environmental Law and Policy Center to help students find internships, Foundation Fellowships. Many go on to Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) externships, research assistantships, pursue graduate degrees around the Google fellowships, and innovation world, and 80 percent who apply are Museum of Science and Industry competitions. Faculty mentors work admitted to their top choice school. National Institutes of Health with students from day one to ensure UChicago graduates work as software Pfizer Pharmaceuticals they have the resources they need. engineers for Apple, researchers at Smithsonian Institution In the College, students intern at NASA, professors, patent lawyers, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency CERN, Pfizer, the U.S. Environmental and entrepreneurs in high-tech fields. U.S. Food and Drug Administration Protection Agency, Google, and many Regardless of career choice, University of other organizations. Through a network Chicago alumni are leaders in their fields. And many others of more than 147,000 alumni, students gain advice—and often job offers—to “To be a good scientist or a good launch successful careers. engineer, the most important thing ABOVE (left) Graduate students Chunxiao Song, in blue, and Xingyu Lu collaborate on research in the Gordon Center for 90% is to have critical thinking skills, to Integrative Science as part of Professor Chuan He’s research group; (right) Scott Durchslag, AB’87, is the president of Expedia of recent alumni Worldwide and the former COO of Skype. be able to analyze problems. That’s land full-time positions or what a UChicago degree gives you.” enroll in graduate and Phil Lacovara, AB’86, physics, founding presi- professional programs within “I love developing new medicines; that’s my pas- John Maraganore, dent of Ambalux Corporation, a developer AB’84, SM’85, PhD’86, 10 months of graduation and producer of electro-optic products sion. Having a high quality science education from all in biochemistry and molecular biology UChicago life lesson: Broader thinking UChicago was really key. Beyond understanding Occupation: CEO of makes for better business. “In the solar the scientific advances we’re making, in my role as Alnylam Pharmaceuticals; energy business, you need to know about inventor of Angiomax®, CEO, I need to be able to lead people, collaborate, an anticoagulant used finance, public policy, tax laws. It’s extremely in 750,000 angioplasty valuable to be able to think about all the and understand the business aspects of what we patients every year different pieces.” do. All that came from my time at UChicago.” Why he’s a UChicago lifer: “I fell in love with —John Maraganore the research-oriented culture of UChicago as 6ABOVE Maggie Lacovara followed in the footsteps of her father, Phil Lacovara, when she graduated from the University of Chicago in 2009. an undergrad.” 7 ALUMNI LEADERS IN STEM Martin Gardner, AB’36, author and columnist Deborah Mack, AB’76, chief scientific of “Mathematical Games” in the magazine consultant for Terranova Pictures; project Luis Alvarez, SB’32, SM’34, PhD’36, Nobel Scientific American director for the Africa exhibition at Chicago’s laureate in physics, 1968, for his decisive Field Museum Mack Gipson, Jr., SM’61, PhD’63, first African contributions to physics, American to obtain a PhD in geology; Myrtle Potter, AB’80, CEO and president, in particular the discovery of a large number founding advisor of the National Association Myrtle Potter & Company; former president of resonance states, made possible through of Black Geologists and Geophysicists; former and chief operating officer, Genentech; his development of the technique of using consultant to NASA former president, Bristol-Myers Squibb hydrogen and data analysis Marvin Goldberger, PhD’48, physicist; former , LAB’42, PhB’44, SB’46, Robert Bell, SM’73, research scientist in president of California Institute of Technology MD’48, discovered the link between genetics AT&T Labs Research; 2003 AT&T Science and and cancer; National Medal of Science Technology Medalist John Grunsfeld, SM’84, PhD’88, former recipient, 1998; Presidential Medal of astronaut and NASA chief scientist George David Birkhoff, PhD 1907, Freedom recipient, 2009 mathematician; winner of the first Bocher Warren E. Henry, PhD’41, physicist Carl Sagan, AB’54, SB’55, SM’56, PhD’60, Memorial Prize for his memoir Dynamical and professor of magnetism and astronomer; author of Contact; educator Systems with Two Degrees of Freedom, 1917; superconductivity; developed video founder of the ergodic theorem amplifiers used in portable radar systems on George E. Smith, SM’56, PhD’59, Nobel warships in World War II; his demonstration laureate in physics, 2009, for the invention Herbert Brown, SB’36, PhD’38, Nobel laureate of the proof of noninteracting paramagnetic of an imaging semiconductor circuit—the in chemistry, 1979, for the development of is used in a number of physics texts CCD sensor the use of boron- and phosphorus-containing compounds, respectively, into important Donald Hopkins, MD’66, vice president of Roger Sperry, PhD’41, Nobel laureate reagents in organic synthesis health programs, the Carter Center; former in physiology or medicine, 1981, for his deputy director, Centers for Disease Control discoveries concerning the functional Jocelyn Carter-Miller, MBA’81, president of and Prevention; recipient of the MacArthur specialization of the cerebral hemispheres Tech Edventures, Inc.; former corporate vice Fellows “genius” grant president and chief marketing officer of Motorola , SB’42, PhD’49, Nobel Edwin Hubble, SB 1910, PhD 1917, astronomer laureate in physics, 1988, for the Casey Cowell, AB’75, chairman and president who found first evidence for the big bang theory beam method and the demonstration of the of Durandal Inc.; cofounder of USRobotics; doublet structure of the through the University trustee Donald Johanson, AM’70, PhD’74, discovery of the neutrino paleoanthropologist who discovered “Lucy,” , SM’53, PhD’55, UChicago a skeletal link between primates and humans Edward Lawrie Tatum, X’31, Nobel laureate professor emeritus in physics; Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine, 1958, for the in physics, 1980, for the discovery of violations Ernest Everett Just, PhD 1916, zoologist, discovery that genes act by regulating of fundamental symmetry principles in the biologist, and physiologist who advocated definite chemical events decay of neutral K- the study of whole cells under normal conditions, rather than breaking them apart Daniel Tsui, SM’63, PhD’67, Nobel laureate , SB 1909, Nobel laureate in in a laboratory setting in physics, 1998, for the discovery of a new physics, 1937, for the experimental discovery form of quantum fluid with fractionally of the of by crystals Karen Katen, AB’70, MBA’74, senior advisor charged excitations to Essex Woodlands Health Ventures; former Arnold Donald, MBA’80, chair of Missouri vice chairman of Pfizer, Inc.; former president James Dewey Watson, PhB’46, SB’47, Nobel Botanical Garden’s board of trustees; former of Pfizer Human Health; University trustee laureate in physiology or medicine, 1962, president and chief executive officer of the for discoveries concerning the molecular Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation , X’23, Nobel laureate structure of nucleic acids and its significance International; former chairman and CEO of in physics, 1939, for the invention and for information transfer in living material Merisant development of the cyclotron and for results obtained with it, especially with regard to , SB’70, Nobel laureate in Jerome Friedman, AB’50, SM’53, PhD’56, artificial radioactive elements physics, 2004, for the discovery of asymptotic Nobel laureate in physics, 1990, for pioneering freedom in the theory of the investigations concerning deep inelastic Tsung-Dao Lee, PhD’50, won the 1957 scattering of electrons on and bound with Chen Ning Yang, J. Ernest Wilkins, Jr., SB’40, SM’41, PhD’42, , which have been of essential PhD’48, for the penetrating investigation of a PhD in mathematics at age 19; second importance for the development of the the so-called laws that led to important African American elected to the National model in particle physics discoveries regarding elementary particles Academy of Engineering

OPPOSITE (left to right from top) Janet Rowley, LAB’42, PhB’44, SB’46, MD’48; John Grunsfeld, SM’84, PhD’88; Daniel Tsui, SM’63, PhD’67; Myrtle Potter, AB’80; James Cronin, SM’53, PhD’55; Edwin Hubble, SB 1910, PhD 1917, photo courtesy of the Archives, California Institute of Technology; Karen Katen, AB’70, MBA’74; Tsung-Dao Lee, PhD’50, and Chen Ning Yang, PhD’48, photo courtesy of AIP Emilio Segre Visual Archives; Donald Johanson, AM’70, PhD’74; Marvin Goldberger, PhD’48, photo courtesy of the Archives, California Institute of Technology.

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