Delight in discovery
Claudia Goldin thinks of herself as Sherlock Holmes. With titles likeUnderstanding the Gender Gap and The Regulated Economy, her case file lacks the criminal flavor of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s oeuvre,...
View ArticleMAPSS matters
Martin Salvucci, AB'10, AM'11, and Sam Mitrani, AB'98, AM'00, came to the Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences (MAPSS) in different ways: Salvucci, like 40 percent of current MAPSS students,...
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Acts of union
When I interviewedGwyn Cready, AB’83, MBA’86, for the Core, I learned that one doesn’t have to be an aficionado or even that familiar with romance novels in order to become an award-winning author in...
View ArticleA matter of identity
When William Bila, IMBA’02, moved to Prague in 1992 to work at the consulting firm Ernst & Young, his mother told him never to admit he was Roma. Bila’s parents had immigrated to the United States...
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The teacher and the prisoner
Rex Hammond first took a class with Laura Bates, PhD’98, in 1999. At the time he was incarcerated at Wabash Valley Correctional Facility in Carlisle, Indiana, serving 25 years for armed robbery.Tags:...
View ArticleNaNoWriMo: A novel endeavor
In 1999 Chris Baty, AM’97, had an idea for “a cross between a marathon and a literary block party”—he and 20 willing friends would try to each write a novel in 30 days. He called it National Novel...
View ArticleDeep dive
Ian Urbina’s best-laid plans were adrift. Just a few days earlier, the 43-year-old New York Times reporter had struck a deal with a boat captain in a West African port to take him and a fixer to a...
View ArticleA tender coincidence
Nearly twenty years ago, while still a graduate student in English at the University of Chicago, I was invited to contribute to a Festschrift for my father. The looming occasion was his 40th year as an...
View ArticleHow the job search has changed since 2008
When the economy was booming, says career coach Elatia Abate, AB’99, MBA’08, it was relatively easy to get a job. You put together a good résumé. You found a promising job online and applied for it....
View ArticleRumbling down unknown streets
On a family trip, Stéphane Gerson, AM’92, PhD’97, lost his young son Owen when their kayak capsized on Utah’s Green River. Gerson’s new book Disaster Falls: A Family Story (Crown, 2017) chronicles how...
View ArticleRockefeller, remembered
His grandfather was famous for his wealth and for giving it away—to fund biomedical research, to support social services, and in 1889 donating $600,000 to help found the University of Chicago.
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