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Copyright ©2017 Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., a subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ USA. All Rights Reserved. CORP-1210605-0005 06/17 harris.uchicago.edu/eveningMA UCH_ADS_v1.indd 2 7/25/17 4:53 PM 170701_Merck_Chicago.indd 1 5/24/17 2:18 PM Features 26 EVERGREEN The University’s botanic garden celebrates its 20th anniversary. By Carrie SUMMER 2017 Golus, AB’91, AM’93 VOLUME 109, NUMBER 4 34 LEXICOGRAPHER (Noun, an author or editor of a dictionary) By Carrie Golus, AB’91, AM’93 36 HOT PURSUIT NASA’s Parker Solar Probe gets ready to meet a star. By Susie Allen, AB’09 42 BOOK SMART Jeff Deutsch has a plan to save the Seminary Co-op. By Sean Carr, AB’90 50 LEGACY From his first trip north as the youngest hand on a two-masted schooner, Ernest “Tiger” Burch, AM’63, PhD’66, was driven to learn about the Arctic and its peoples. By Richard Mertens Departments 3 EDITOR’S NOTES Radio Days: Reviving the spirit of the University of Chicago Round Table of the Air. By Laura Demanski, AM’94 4 LETTERS Readers remember the cultural influence of historian Henry Steele Commager, PhB’23, AM’24, PhD’28; recall a flu-ridden arrival on campus; weigh in on language instruction; and more. 7 ON THE AGENDA The Office of the Provost at UChicago.By Daniel Diermeier 9 UCHICAGO JOURNAL The Duchossois Family Institute pioneers a new science of wellness; remembering the Alamo; a new proof advances president Robert J. Zimmer’s mathematical work; glaciologist Douglas MacAyeal listens to Antarctic ice; Anywhere you step an alumna helps Wall Street traders get in touch with their feelings; tough- on the UChicago thinking women; and more. campus, you’re in a botanic garden—see 22 MARKETPLACE OF IDEAS “Evergreen,” page 26. Five scholars discuss how the looting of antiquities puts our cultural heritage in To view the real-life peril, and what to do about it. Stuart Hall grotesque 53 PEER REVIEW that inspired our cut- In the alumni essay, Max Grinnell, AB’98, AM’02, learns the mysterious ways paper illustration, of the “L.” Plus: Alumni News, Deaths, and Classifieds. visit mag.uchicago.edu /covercarving. 80 LITE OF THE MIND Illustration by iLove UChicago: Add a little life of the mind to your iMessage conversations. Jeff Nishinaka. By Helen Gregg, AB’09 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 | summer 2017 1 TOC_Summer17_v2.indd 1 7/27/17 3:36 PM The now-celebrated street photographer Vivian Maier (top left), unknown during her lifetime, took more than 100,000 photos of everyday life in Chicago and New York City but printed only 3,000 of them. In July the University of Chicago Library received a donation from collector and filmmaker John Maloof of nearly 500 of these rare prints, believed to have been made by Maier herself, which have never been published or exhibited. The photographs will be available to researchers in the library’s Special Collections Research Center. unpublished work © 2017 the estate of vivian maier. all rights reserved UCH_Wallpaper_v4.indd 2 7/27/17 3:03 PM EDITORˆS NOTES Volume 109, Number 4, Summer 2017 editor Laura Demanski, AM’94 Radio days associate editor Susie Allen, AB’09 art director Guido Mendez BY LAURA DEMANSKI, AM’94 alumni news editor Helen Gregg, AB’09 senior copy editor Rhonda L. Smith student interns Kaitlyn Akin, ’19; Christopher Good, ’19 graphic designer Laura Lorenz lite of the mind & interactive content editor Joy Olivia Miller contributing editors John Easton, AM’77; Carrie Golus, AB’91, AM’93; Brooke E. O’Neill, AM’04; Amy Braverman Puma; Mary Ruth Yoe gain and again this spring, ferent knowledge bases but shared Editorial Office The University of Chicago I found myself heading to concerns brings to mind a piece of Magazine, 5235 South Harper Court, Suite the corner of 57th Street UChicago history: the University of 500, Chicago, IL 60615. telephone 773.702.2163; fax 773.702.8836; and Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago Round Table of the Air. De- email [email protected]. the elegant home of the buting in 1931 on Chicago radio station The Magazine is sent to all University of Neubauer Collegium for WMAQ, the show aired conversa- Chicago alumni. The University of Chicago Culture and Society. The tions between University scholars Alumni Association has its offices at 5235 South Harper Court, 7th Floor, Chicago, research institute, a five- about important topics of the day. In IL 60615. telephone 773.702.2150; year-old joint endeavor of 1933 it was picked up by NBC, the sta- fax 773.702.2166. address changes the Humanities and Social tion’s parent network, which broad- 800.955.0065 or [email protected]. Sciences Divisions, spon- cast it nationally. web mag.uchicago.edu sors faculty projects that don’t sit in The Round Table was a hit. For 22 The University of Chicago Magazine any single field, but ask questions that years it put UChicago in US homes, (ISSN-0041-9508) is published quarterly A demand many disciplinary perspec- earning a Peabody Award along the (Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer) by the tives. The Collegium’s mission also way. In a recent interview with the University of Chicago in cooperation with the Alumni Association, 5235 South calls for engaging a “wider public in College, former University presi- Harper Court, 7th Floor, Chicago, IL humanistic scholarship.” Speaking as dent and Henry Pratt Judson Distin- 60615. Published continuously since 1907. a member of the public, it’s working. guished Service Professor Emeritus Periodicals postage paid at Chicago and additional mailing offices.postmaster In April I listened as Court The- Hanna Holborn Gray recalled that the Send address changes to The University of atre creative director Charles Newell Round Table served as her introduc- Chicago Magazine, Alumni Records, 5235 spoke with Pulitzer Prize–winning tion to UChicago, being one of the few South Harper Court, Chicago, IL 60615. playwright and 2017–18 Collegium radio shows her strict parents would © 2017 University of Chicago. visiting fellow David Auburn, AB’91, let her tune in to (visit mag.uchicago Advertising Contact uchicago-magazine about the challenges of adapting Saul .edu/grayinterview). @uchicago.edu. The Magazine is also Bellow’s (EX’39) The Adventures of No idea this good should go un - a member of the Ivy League Magazine Augie March for the stage. The next borrowed. So we recorded our own Network, whose clients include other colleges and universities. These month brought a tribute to the late roundtable between five scholars from advertisements help the Magazine continue poet and former John U. Nef Com- different institutions and fields—ar- to deliver news of the University of Chicago mittee on Social Thought professor chaeology, law, sociology, and cultur- and its alumni to readers. Please contact the Mark Strand, where his artwork was al policy—who worked on the Past for editor with any questions. ivy league magazine network displayed and his poems were read Sale and are searching for solutions to Heather Wedlake, Director of Operations by colleagues, family, and friends, antiquities looting. For an excerpt of web ivymags.com including Renée Fleming in a prere- their conversation, see “Heritage in email [email protected] telephone 617.319.0995 corded video. Peril” (Marketplace of Ideas, page Still another May day, I was drawn 22), or listen to the entire absorb - in by a conference capping the three- ing discussion at mag.uchicago.edu year Collegium research project the /heritage-peril. The University does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual Past for Sale, which examined antiq- Though the faculty roundtable has orientation, gender identity, national or ethnic uities looting and its dangers to both a long pedigree at UChicago, it’s new origin, age, status as an individual with a cultural heritage and national secu- for us—and something we’d like to disability, protected veteran status, genetic rity—more on that below.