Camelia Malkami
University Releases Details for Hybrid Fall Quarter Plan
President Zimmer and Provost Lee announced new plans for autumn quarter, including details about in-person and remote classes, changes to housing and dining, and COVID-19 testing and contact tracing.
NEWS/
June 30, 2020
Professors Will Individually Choose Whether to Hold In-Person Classes Fall Quarter
In an email to University instructors, top administrators wrote that no instructor will be required to teach in person in the fall. The email also included some plans to return to resume some in-person teaching, including contact tracing.
NEWS/
June 27, 2020
In #Strike4BlackLives March and Meetings, STEM Departments and Students Call for Change
The Astronomy and Astrophysics Department’s March Was a Part of the Day’s Broader #Strike4BlackLives and #ShutDownSTEM Movements Led by the Particles for Justice Organization.
NEWS/
June 25, 2020
University Sends off the Class of 2020 in First-Ever Remote Convocation Weekend
The event, which included speeches by administrators and students, was held remotely because an in-person Convocation Weekend was impossible in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
NEWS/
June 21, 2020
Student Organizers Sit in at UCPD Headquarters
Organizers were not able to use the building’s bathrooms or bring in supplies. Although organizers were able to leave the building, that would have ended their action to “defund, disarm, disclose, and disband” UCPD.
NEWS/
June 17, 2020
University Begins Revealing Plans for Possible Fall Quarter Return to Campus
The current plans for a possible reopening would include significantly reducing course instruction and research capacity, including the number of students allowed in each classroom, while maintaining remote options for both.
NEWS/
June 15, 2020
Third-Year Takes Lead in Organizing Massive Protests for Police Accountability
Sydney Jackson, a Chicagoland native, helped organize and lead hundreds of people marching from Bronzeville to Hyde Park last Sunday. That action will be the first of many for Jackson.
NEWS/
June 11, 2020
UChicago to Direct $6.2 Million in CARES Act Funds to Students as Emergency Financial Aid
The University will use “use institutional funds, as opposed to CARES Act funds, to support undocumented and other students who may not meet existing federal eligibility requirements,” according to a University spokesperson.
NEWS/
June 9, 2020
Hyde Park Businesses Clean Up and Hunker Down Following Weekend Damage
Some businesses on 53rd and 55th Streets had windows smashed and merchandise stolen on Saturday night and closed early on Sunday to prevent more thefts and damage.
NEWS/
June 2, 2020
Ezra Klein Discusses American Polarization, Biden’s VP, at IOP talk
Ezra Klein, co-founder and editor of Vox, and David Axelrod also discussed Klein's new book, Why We're Polarized.
NEWS/
June 12, 2020
Yerkes Observatory Eyes the Future
“There’s a sequence of steps that have to take place which are relatively detailed and not glamorous, but necessary to keep it a viable building for the next 125 years,” said Dianna Colman, chair of the Yerkes Future Foundation.
NEWS/
June 2, 2020
UChicago for Fair Tuition Ends Tuition Strike as SSA Student Joins Class Action Lawsuit Against UChicago and Other Universities
In a statement provided to The Maroon, UCFT said that its demand for a tuition freeze had been met, and that the campaign had succeeded in shifting the conversation around the cost of higher education.
NEWS/
May 26, 2020
President Zimmer Undergoes Surgery for Brain Tumor
Provost Ka Yee Lee informed University members about the procedure in an email.
NEWS/
June 8, 2020
Admissions Office Gets TikTok
As of May 25, the UChicago Admissions account has 15 videos, with 474 followers, and 1,496 likes.
NEWS/
May 26, 2020
Graduation Issue: Celebrating Seniors
Friends and families honor members of the graduating class with senior ads.
NEWS/
May 23, 2020
Puppies, Giant Tortoises, and a 20-foot-tall Dean Boyer: Fourth-Years Reflect on Their Strangest Quad Sightings
As the center of campus, the quad is the site of much of the quintessential UChicago experience.
NEWS/
May 19, 2020
University Announces In-Person Graduation for Class of 2020 in 2021, in Addition to Virtual Graduation
On June 5, 2021, a full graduation ceremony for the Class of 2020 will be held.
NEWS/
May 13, 2020
Engage Slate Wins SG Executive Slate Election, Beating Independence Slate by Just 16 Votes
The Engage Slate comprises President Raven Rainey, Vice President of Student Life Myles Hudson, and Vice President of Administration Alex Levi.
NEWS/
May 5, 2020
Tenants United Organizes #CancelRentRally at TLC and Mac Properties Offices
Tenants marched from Harold Washington Park at South Shore to the Mac Properties Office on 53rd Street, protesting at Mac, TLC, and Hyde Park Properties offices to demand rent payment cancellation during COVID-19.
NEWS/
May 4, 2020
UChicago for Fair Tuition Holds Demonstration in Front of President Zimmer’s Home
UCFT was joined by other student organizations for the demonstration to call for the halving of tuition for the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic.
NEWS/
April 27, 2020
Online TAing Presents New Challenges
For some TAs, virtual classrooms have not resulted in a drastic difference in responsibilities. In others, they do face difficulties under the online format.
NEWS/
April 25, 2020
UChicago Working Paper Finds Relationship Between News Source and COVID-19
UChicago researchers found a relationship between news outlet viewership and coronavirus deaths, comparing viewers of two Fox News programs.
NEWS/
April 27, 2020
Oren Oppenheim
Registrar Adds Note About COVID-19 and Impact on Student Performance to College Transcripts
The note comes in the context of a spring quarter held entirely remotely, which caused unprecedented challenges for many students.
NEWS/
June 24, 2020
Jeremy Lindenfeld
Recent Black Lives Matter Protests Could Be a Watershed Event, History Department Panelists Say
In a panel hosted by the history department, titled 1968 to 2020: History Town Hall on Race, Protests, and Policing, professors pointed out that today’s protests seem unprecedented in scale and influence.
NEWS/
June 17, 2020
Matthew Lee
Many UChicago Students Nationwide Take to the Streets in Response to Death of George Floyd
The Maroon spoke with students involved in protests across the country, many recounting altercations with law enforcement.
NEWS/
June 11, 2020
Defne Anlas
South Side Community Groups Rally Support and Resources in as Protests Continue
The Maroon spoke to Experimental Station (E.S.), a South Side nonprofit that operates the 61st Street Farmers Market and Blackstone Bicycle Works, and Brave Space Alliance (BSA), the first Black-led and trans-led LGBTQ+ center on the South Side.
NEWS/
June 11, 2020
Laura Gersony
UCPD, Institutional Accountability Spotlighted at Provost’s Webinar on Racism
Several Black panelists described negative personal experiences with UCPD, calling on the University to address its “uncomfortable” relationship with the South Side.
NEWS/
June 8, 2020
Adrián Mandeville
GSU Plans Teach-In for Final Day of Class
Graduate students will withhold work to protest the lack of administrative response to their demands.
NEWS/
June 3, 2020
Lee Harris
Students Demand Black Peers’ “Right to Grieve,” Optional Finals During Nationwide Upheaval
Organizers say that the mental health toll which current events are taking on Black students is limiting their ability to focus on academics.
NEWS/
June 2, 2020
Camelia Malkami
Tracking Title IX: Sexual Violence By The Numbers
Grey City looked back at this year’s campus climate survey and how UChicago stacks up to peer institutions nationwide.
FEATURE
/
June 2, 2020
Institute of Politics
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Says COVID-19 Will Not Impede Her Goals for Economic Equality
In a live taping of “The Axe Files,” Mayor Lori Lightfoot and David Axelrod discussed plans to reopen Chicago as well as the city’s inequities that COVID-19 has revealed.
NEWS/
May 26, 2020
Lee Harris
Immunoengineering Center Investigates COVID-19 Vaccine Possibilities
In addition, the center aims to work closely with the Polsky Center to bring together corporate partners for the development and licensing of technologies.
NEWS/
May 26, 2020
Financial RSOs Hosted Inaugural UChicago Investing Forum via Zoom
With concerns about the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the forum was instead moved to a weeklong series of dispersed events, all taking place over Zoom.
NEWS/
May 26, 2020
Lee Harris
Senior Perspectives: (Un)Common Course Recommendations
What are the best classes that students have taken outside of their majors?
NEWS/
May 19, 2020
Talklet: A Mental Health Start-Up
The start-up began in fall of 2019 and placed third in the 2020 College New Venture Challenge (CNVC). As a result of its placement in the competition, Talklet had the opportunity to work with the Chicago Booth School of Business.
NEWS/
May 13, 2020
University Sends off the Class of 2020 in First-Ever Remote Convocation Weekend
The event, which included speeches by administrators and students, was held remotely because an in-person Convocation Weekend was impossible in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
NEWS/
June 21, 2020
Student Organizers Sit in at UCPD Headquarters
Organizers were not able to use the building’s bathrooms or bring in supplies. Although organizers were able to leave the building, that would have ended their action to “defund, disarm, disclose, and disband” UCPD.
NEWS/
June 17, 2020
University Begins Revealing Plans for Possible Fall Quarter Return to Campus
The current plans for a possible reopening would include significantly reducing course instruction and research capacity, including the number of students allowed in each classroom, while maintaining remote options for both.
NEWS/
June 15, 2020
Third-Year Takes Lead in Organizing Massive Protests for Police Accountability
Sydney Jackson, a Chicagoland native, helped organize and lead hundreds of people marching from Bronzeville to Hyde Park last Sunday. That action will be the first of many for Jackson.
NEWS/
June 11, 2020
UChicago to Direct $6.2 Million in CARES Act Funds to Students as Emergency Financial Aid
The University will use “use institutional funds, as opposed to CARES Act funds, to support undocumented and other students who may not meet existing federal eligibility requirements,” according to a University spokesperson.
NEWS/
June 9, 2020
Hyde Park Businesses Clean Up and Hunker Down Following Weekend Damage
Some businesses on 53rd and 55th Streets had windows smashed and merchandise stolen on Saturday night and closed early on Sunday to prevent more thefts and damage.
NEWS/
June 2, 2020
Ezra Klein Discusses American Polarization, Biden’s VP, at IOP talk
Ezra Klein, co-founder and editor of Vox, and David Axelrod also discussed Klein's new book, Why We're Polarized.
NEWS/
June 12, 2020
Yerkes Observatory Eyes the Future
“There’s a sequence of steps that have to take place which are relatively detailed and not glamorous, but necessary to keep it a viable building for the next 125 years,” said Dianna Colman, chair of the Yerkes Future Foundation.
NEWS/
June 2, 2020
UChicago for Fair Tuition Ends Tuition Strike as SSA Student Joins Class Action Lawsuit Against UChicago and Other Universities
In a statement provided to The Maroon, UCFT said that its demand for a tuition freeze had been met, and that the campaign had succeeded in shifting the conversation around the cost of higher education.
NEWS/
May 26, 2020
President Zimmer Undergoes Surgery for Brain Tumor
Provost Ka Yee Lee informed University members about the procedure in an email.
NEWS/
June 8, 2020
Admissions Office Gets TikTok
As of May 25, the UChicago Admissions account has 15 videos, with 474 followers, and 1,496 likes.
NEWS/
May 26, 2020
Graduation Issue: Celebrating Seniors
Friends and families honor members of the graduating class with senior ads.
NEWS/
May 23, 2020
Puppies, Giant Tortoises, and a 20-foot-tall Dean Boyer: Fourth-Years Reflect on Their Strangest Quad Sightings
As the center of campus, the quad is the site of much of the quintessential UChicago experience.
NEWS/
May 19, 2020
University Announces In-Person Graduation for Class of 2020 in 2021, in Addition to Virtual Graduation
On June 5, 2021, a full graduation ceremony for the Class of 2020 will be held.
NEWS/
May 13, 2020
Engage Slate Wins SG Executive Slate Election, Beating Independence Slate by Just 16 Votes
The Engage Slate comprises President Raven Rainey, Vice President of Student Life Myles Hudson, and Vice President of Administration Alex Levi.
NEWS/
May 5, 2020
Tenants United Organizes #CancelRentRally at TLC and Mac Properties Offices
Tenants marched from Harold Washington Park at South Shore to the Mac Properties Office on 53rd Street, protesting at Mac, TLC, and Hyde Park Properties offices to demand rent payment cancellation during COVID-19.
NEWS/
May 4, 2020
UChicago for Fair Tuition Holds Demonstration in Front of President Zimmer’s Home
UCFT was joined by other student organizations for the demonstration to call for the halving of tuition for the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic.
NEWS/
April 27, 2020
Online TAing Presents New Challenges
For some TAs, virtual classrooms have not resulted in a drastic difference in responsibilities. In others, they do face difficulties under the online format.
NEWS/
April 25, 2020
UChicago Working Paper Finds Relationship Between News Source and COVID-19
UChicago researchers found a relationship between news outlet viewership and coronavirus deaths, comparing viewers of two Fox News programs.
NEWS/
April 27, 2020
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President Zimmer and Provost Lee, Let’s Be Honest About the UCPD
Before claiming anti-racist values, UChicago’s administration must confront the UCPD’s legacy of racial violence.
LETTERS/
July 3, 2020
OP-ED: After Parenthood, Sexism in Science Takes On New Meaning
EDITORIAL: The University Must Disband Its Private Police Force
OP-ED: What Are Our Employers Doing?
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