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At the University of Chicago, its all about ideas. It doesnt matter who you are, where youre from, or what youre studyingwhat matters is that youre courageous enough to take chances, express your thoughts, discover your passions, and learn and grow from feedback. At the core of our curriculum, programs, and community, students learn how to think and open new intellectual horizons. Its this approach that empowers our students and fosters world-changing ideas.

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The environment here produces ideas that matterideas that win Nobel Prizes. More than 80 Nobel laureates16 percent of all recipients since the award was first given in 1901are associated with the University of Chicago, including eight current faculty members. Our faculty are recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom as well as the National Medal of Science. More than 20 current and former faculty have received genius grants from the MacArthur Foundation. And one former senior lecturer is President of the United States. The student-faculty ratio is 7:1, allowing for the kind of access that changes livesincluding yours.

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Former senior lecturer and Hyde Park resident President Barack Obama and the first family / Roger Myerson, the Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in economic sciences / Tiffany Trent, AB91, Lecturer in Theater and Performance Studies and a professional director and costume designer / Paul Sereno, Professor in Organismal Biology & Anatomy, a leading paleontologist who has discovered several new dinosaur species

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Our scholars, scientists, and educators transform our societyand the world. The structure of DNA. New species of dinosaurs. The science of ecology. The mathematical theory of black holes. Proof that cancer is a genetic disease. Carbon-14 dating of archeological finds. Revolutionary theories of education. Measuring the speed of light. Efficient market theory. How to preserve blood. The correlation between poverty and inequality. The first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction. These advances are the result of research at the University of Chicago. A world-renowned source of innovation, UChicago fosters thought leadership by challenging conventional thinking and accepted wisdom.

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Argonne physicists work on the Gammasphere, the worlds most powerful spectrometer for nuclear structure research. The University of Chicago is one of only two universities in the country to manage two national labsArgonne National Laboratory and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. / Courses in the Divisions of the Biological Sciences and Physical Sciences mix classroom discussions of scientific theories and experimental practice in labs. / With dozens of institutes and centers devoted to research, undergraduate students have access to numerous research and internship opportunities, and can be found in almost every Medical Center and departmental lab on campus. / Medical Center radiologists use an intelligent CT scanner to reveal the woman inside the Oriental Institutes 3,000-year-old mummy.

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Our students are recognized as among the brightest in the world. You could be our next Rhodes Scholar. The University of Chicago consistently leads in the number of Rhodes Scholarships awarded, with more than 45 recipients since the awards inception in 1904. Our undergraduates become Churchill Scholars, Marshall Scholars, and Truman Scholars, and receive prestigious fellowships in medical sciences, humanities, and foreign affairs. UChicago students make up one of the largest groups of graduates selected for Teach for America. They come from public schools and private schools. They represent diverse cultures and economic backgrounds. They are from down the street, across the country, and around the globe. Our students are smart, funny, down-to-earththe kind of people who become friends for life.

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Students in the College begin to form friendships and support systems as soon as they arrive on campus for Orientation Week. / Students explore Chicagos  nique hangouts in nearly 80 distinct neighborhoods, like this cantina in Lincoln Park. / UChicago has 19 teams competing at the Division III level, many of which have captured u championship titles, including the 2010 NCAA womens tennis doubles title. / Seven a cappella groups, including Chicago Mens A Cappella, are among the 100-plus arts and cultural student organizations on campus.

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P ul i t ze r P r ize - w in n in g i nvesti gati ve journali st

Willie Davis, MBA68

P ro F oot b al l H al l of F ame me mb e r

Ray Suarez, AM93

S e n io r c o r r e s po n d e n t fo r P B S

Eliot Ness, PhB25

C o- a utho r OF a n d inspi rati on FOR The Untouchabl e s

Carl Sagan, AB54, SB55, SM56, PhD60

As t ron o m e r , w r ite r , e d u c a to r

Susan Sontag, AB51

C ri t i c and au t h or

John Ashcroft, JD67

Fo r m e r U . S . A t t o r n e y G e n e r a l

Katharine Graham, AB38

P U B L I S HE R O F THE W A SHIN GTON POST AND PULI TZ ER PRI Z E WI NNE R

David Axelrod, AB76

adv i s or to pr e s id e n t o b a m a

Jon S. Corzine, MBA73

fo r m e r G o v e r n o r o f N e w Je r s e y

Joseph Mansueto, AB78, MBA80

F o un d er and CEO of Morni ngstar

James Watson, PhB46, SB47

Nobel laureate who co-discovered the structure of DNA

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Dan Hertzberg, AB68
Pu lit z e r Pr iz e w in n e r a n d e d ito r a t la r g e , b lo o m b e r g n e w s

John Paul Stevens, AB41

f o r m e r U . S . S u p r e m e C o u r t J us t i c e

Katherine Dunham, PhB36

G r o u n d b r e a k in g c h o r e o g r a ph e r

David Brooks, AB83

N e w Y o r k Ti mes columni st

Kimberly Peirce, AB90

Di r e c t o r o f film B o ys D o n t C r y

Milton Friedman, AM33

Nobel l au re at e i n e c on omi c s c i e n c e s

Robert Bork, AB48, JD53

La w ye r , pr o fe s s o r , a n d b e s t- s e llin g a u th o r

Bernard Sahlins, AB43

C o- f ou nde r of S e c ond C i t y

David Auburn, AB91

T o n y A w a r D a n d Pu lit z e r Pr iz e w in n in g p la yw r ig h t

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Paul Sills, AB51
C o- f o un de r o f Se cond Ci ty Sabermetri ci an and f ou nde r of F i v e T h i rt y E i gh t . c om

Carol Moseley Braun, JD72

F i rs t A f r ic a n A m e r ic a n w o m a n e le c t e d to U . S . S e n a te

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Lynn Margulis, AB57

Nat i on al Me dal of S c i e n c e wi nn e r

Jay Berwanger, AB36

Fir s t H e is m a n T r o ph y w in n e r

Andrew M. Greeley, AM61, PhD62

P r ie st, soci ologi st, and best-selli ng au t h or

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Gary Becker, AM53, PhD55

U ni v e rs i t y of C h i c ago p rof e s s or and N ob e l L au r e a te in Ec o n o m ic Scie n c e s

Paul Volberding, AB71

C o- disco ve r e r o f HIV vi rus

Kurt Vonnegut, AM71

Literary icon

John Grunsfeld, SM84, PhD88

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Sara Paretsky, AM69, MBA77, PhD77

Best-selli ng author

Philip Kaufman, AB58

F i l m di re c t or an d s c r e e n w r ite r

David Broder, AB47, AM51

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University of Chicago alumni shape the world we live in. From astronomer Edwin Hubble, SB 1910, PhD 1917, namesake of the Hubble telescope, to David Brooks, AB83, New York Times columnist, UChicago graduates share pride in an extraordinary tradition of excellence and leadership. Our more than 147,000 alumni are Nobel laureates, CEOs, university presidents, attorneys general, literary giants, and astronauts. They win Oscar, Grammy, and Tony awards. They are Pulitzer Prizewinning journalists and Supreme Court justices. They form a network that touches more than 125 countries around the globeand exemplify a stellar legacy of accomplishment reflected in every University of Chicago degree.
Kimberly Ng, AB90
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Donald Johanson, AM70, PhD74

P al e oant h rop olo g is t w h o d is c o v e r e d L u c y, a lin k b e tw e e n p r im a t e s a n d h u m a n s

Alex Seropian, SB91

F ou nde r of b u ngi e s of tw a r e , c r e a t o r o f h a lo g a m e s e r ie s

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Robert Lucas, AB59, PhD64

Uni versi ty of Chi cago prof e s s or and N ob e l l au re at e i n Ec onomi c Sci e nc e s

David Rockefeller Sr., PhD40

C h ai r m a n o f C h a s e M a n h a t t a n B a n k , c h a ir m a n o f M u s e u m o f M o d e r n A r t

Edwin Hubble, SB 1910, PhD 1917

A str o n o me r w h o found fi rst evi dence for th e b i g b a ng t h e ory P I C T U RE D :

Philip Glass, AB56

Composer and musician

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The gravity of galaxy cluster Abell 2218 bends and focuses the light from galaxies that lay behind it in this image from the Hubble Space Telescope, named for astronomer and alumnus Edwin Hubble. Chicago

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Our academic programs prepare you for whatever path you choose. The core of undergraduate classes offers a broad perspective on human knowledge and the tools of inquiry and analysis that are applicable to the University of Chicagos rich array of program offeringsand to life. The College offers a choice of 49 areas of programmatic study, from such well-defined fields as anthropology and mathematics to such interdisciplinary programs as biological chemistry and cinema and media studies, as well as preprofessional courses of study, with every choice supported by our Career Advising and Planning Services. Drawing on the powerful combination of a traditional liberal arts college at the heart of a premier research university, students have almost unlimited optionsclasses from the fine arts to the physical sciences, from discussion-based seminars to innovative laboratory experiences. We provide the intellectual groundwork; you define the boundaries.

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Discussion and debate are integral parts of a University of Chicago education. / Harper Memorial Library Commons gives students access to a 24-hour study  and group collaboration space. / Improv comedy was born at UChicago and continues to thrive with Off-Off Campus, the nations second-oldest continuously running student improvisational theater troupe. / Thanks to the Universitys Center in Paris, study abroad opportunities abound in the City of Light.

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A. Royall Gay Science Award and Scholarship Fund Norton S. Ginsburg Odyssey Scholarship Fund James J. and Louise R. Glasser Scholarship Fund Jane W. and Irving H. Goldberg Scholarship Fund Sarah Goodman Scholarship Fund Anne and Howard Gottlieb Scholarship Fund Emma Kraidman Gould Scholarship Fund The Grainger Foundation Scholarship Greek American Progressive Association Scholarship David Green Endowment Fund David Melton Griffith and Katalin Szent-Gyorgyi Griffith Scholarship Fund Sanford J. Grossman Honors Scholarship Fund Myrtle and Roy Gutmann Scholarship Fund Carl Gylfe Scholarship Fund Ruth L. and Robert M. Halperin Scholarship Fund Jay Hammer and Robin Langfan Hammer Odyssey Scholarship Harris Bank Foundation Scholarship Walter Hass Odyssey Scholarship Fund William Randolph Hearst Scholarship Endowment Perry S. Herst Community Service Scholarship Daniel Hertzberg and Barbara Kantrowitz Scholarship Joan Naumburg Hertzberg Scholarship Fund Betty S. and David C. Hess Scholarship Fund Herbert and Goldyne Heyman Scholarship Fund Fumiko and David Hoeft Odyssey Scholarship Fund Hong Kong Anonymous Scholarship Fund John Patrick Howe Memorial Scholarship Fund Lucille Hyatt Hubbard Scholarship Fund Henry G. and Edna M. Hulbert Scholarship Fund I & G Scholarship Fund I & G Science Scholarship Fund Nathaniel Insel Memorial Scholarship Jaffe-Hurwich Family Odyssey Scholarship Miriam Enid James Memorial Scholarship Fund Jannotta Odyssey Scholarship Morris Janowitz Scholarship Fund Mary and Lyle Jarmin Scholarship Fund William H. and Kathryn M. Johnston Scholarship Fund Lois R. and Paul H. Jordan Scholarship Fund Hoda J. Kaplan Memorial Scholarship Rose Weiner and Herman E. Kattlove Scholarship Fund Sidney M. Katz Memorial Scholarship Fund Michael Anthony Keable Odyssey Scholarship Fund Elaine M. and Samuel D. Kersten Scholarship Fund Joan and Jonathan Kleinbard Scholarship Klowden Scholarship Fund Knoll Scholarship Fund II Louis and Sophia Koch Memorial Scholarship Theo and Wendy Kolokotrones Scholarship Fund Joan Fultz Kontos and C. William Kontos Memorial Scholarship Fund Sanford B. and Sandra R. Krantz Scholarship Fund Pey-Heng Chou Kuo Scholarship Fund Laackman Family Scholarship Fund Dayna K. Langfan and Lawrence A. Heller Odyssey Scholarship Fund Sylvia K. Lansky Scholarship Fund Pauline and Bernard Lee Scholarship Jeffrey M. and Lisa L. Leiden Scholarship Fund Anthony U. Leitner Scholarship Fund Levich Family Scholarship Fund Eva and Leo Lichtenberg Scholarship Fund James Weber Linn Scholarship Harry A. and Abbott B. Lipsky Scholarship Endowment Isaac Anderson Loeb Scholarship John Duncan MacGregor Scholarship Fund Norman and Jessie Maclean Scholarship Fund James Fulton Maclear Scholarship Fund Rachel J. and Paul A. Markun Discovery Scholarship Fund Mary Q. and Charles E. Marshall Student Fund Marwick Scholarship Fund Peter W. May Scholarship Fund Robert B. and Joseph Mayer Scholarship Fund Fowler B. McConnell Scholarship John J. and Anne OBrien McDonough Scholarship Fund McKeown/Stranger Scholarship Fund James D. McQuaid Family Scholarship Fund MCS Odyssey Scholarship Fund Lee Hillard and Doris Katz Meltzer Scholarship Fund Helen Probst Mills and Stuart I. Mills Odyssey Scholarship Fund Robert J. Mitchell and Wayne E. Mayer Odyssey Scholarship Fund James J. and Marie Viner Monge Sr. Scholarship Fund Richard M. and Janet H. Morrow Scholarship Burton Barrow and Helen Reynolds Moyer Scholarship Fund Helen Myers-McLoraine Scholarship Fund Margaret M. and Howard L. Myerson Scholarship Fund Katie A. Nash Odyssey Scholarship Fund Bernard F. Naumburg Scholarship Fund John G. and Ruth H. Neukom Scholarship Fund New Year Scholarship Fund Carla Newell Scholarship Fund Carla Schwartz Newell Odyssey Scholarship Fund Thomas J. And Helen DeYoung ODonnell Scholarship

Olin Scholarship Fund Endowment Omni Scholarship Fund Otto-Whalley Family Odyssey Scholarship Fund Sir Y.K. Pao Memorial Scholarship Sir Yue-Kong Pao Scholarship Fund Dominic G. and Helen Tyler Parisi Scholarship Endowment John Park and Jennifer Chu Odyssey Scholarship Fund Lorraine Watson and Keith I. Parsons Scholarship Fund The Patrick and Matthew Chicago Public Schools Scholarship Fund PCL Fund for the College Charles H. Percy Scholarship Fund Nancy A.K. Perkins Scholarship Fund Margaret Perry Scholarship Fund Margaret Perry Scholarship Fund Petersen Family Odyssey Scholarship Fund Phi Delta Theta Odyssey Scholarship Melba Newell Phillips Odyssey Scholarship Fund Pi Delta Phi Scholarship Elizabeth and Harvey Plotnick Scholarship Fund Theodore T. Puck Scholarship Fund Purcell/Landau Odyssey Scholarship Purcell-Landau Scholarship Maryann G. and Alfred L. Putnam Scholarship Quadrangler Scholarship Endowment Quemada Scholarship Fund James and Laura Rhind Scholarship Fund Jane Sekema Rishel Scholarship Fund Roets-Wendt Scholarship Fund Rose Family Scholarship Fund Edward Ned Rosenheim Odyssey Scholarship Fund Donald A. and Janet Davison Rowley Scholarship Fund Arthur L. H. and Alice B. Rubin Scholarship Mary Anne N. and James L. Rynerson Scholarship Fund Bettie and Jeremy Sarchet Scholarship Fund Sattley Family Scholarship Fund Bette J. and Ralph S. Saul Scholarship Fund Dr. Scholl Scholarships for College Students Frank Schubel and June Rappaport Schubel Scholarship Fund Ruth D. and Steven O. Schwartz Scholarship Clara Seabury Boone Scholarship Fund Lillian Gertrude Selz Scholarship Joseph Shapiro Scholarship Fund Jeffrey T. and Hope R. Sheffield Scholarship Fund Teddy Sherry Memorial Scholarship Fund Elbert H. Shirk Memorial Scholarship Fund Terry Simpson and Joyce Richards Scholarship Fund Siragusa Foundation Award Siragusa Foundation Award SLE Shapiro Family Scholarships Noah H. Sloan Scholarship Fund William H. and Vera M. Sloan Scholarship Fund Louise Hoyt Smith Scholarship Fund Richard J. Smith Memorial Fund Jerry and Nona Smithwick Scholarship Fund Solomon-Manaster Scholarship Fund Harry B. and Branka J. Sondheim Scholarship Fund Elizabeth and Hugo Sonnenschein Scholarship Fund Judith E. Stein Scholarship Fund Strongin Family Odyssey Scholarship Fund George Sutherland Scholarship Endowment Claire Dux and Charles H. Swift Memorial Scholarship Fund Frank K. Thorp Scholarship Fund Emelie Belle Fisher Tobey Scholarship Fund Ralph W. Tyler Scholarship Fund Ward and Louise Upton Odyssey Scholarship Fund USS Endowed Scholarship Fund Deborah P. and Marshall I. Wais, Jr. Scholarship Fund Walters Family Scholarship Fund War Memorial Scholarship William Ware Scholarship Fund for Minority Students in the College Irvina and Sherwyn Warren Family Scholarship Fund Weibye Family Scholarship Fund Crispin B. Weinberg Scholarship Fund Albert P. Weisman Scholarship Fund Westin-Wendt Scholarship Edwarda Williams Scholarship Fund Dorothy Baker Windhorst Scholarship Fund Abby and Jon Winkelried Scholarship Fund Bernard Winograd Scholarship Fund Elizabeth A. Winternitz Scholarship Fund Moses, Bertha, and Albert H. Wolf Scholarship The Wolfson Family Scholarship Fund Womens Board Endowed Scholarship Fund Wyvern Club Scholarship Fund Kouji Yamada Odyssey Scholarship Fund Francis Tin Fan Yuen Scholarship Fund Marcia Zech Odyssey Scholarship Fund Yi Zhi Scholarship Fund Karl and Barbara Zimmer Scholarship Endowment Rada Zocco Family Odyssey Scholarship Fund Zolondek-Hill Memorial Scholarship Fund

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We believe every College student should be free to focus on what matters. And so does one generous, anonymous College alumnus who gave $100 million to launch the $400 million Odyssey Scholarships initiativepart of a tradition-rich commitment to providing financial aid for our students. Odyssey Scholarships replace loans with grants for low- and moderate-income College students, so they can focus on their studies rather than working part-time jobs. Each year the University provides over $88 million in need and merit-based aid to ensure that undergraduate students of all backgrounds, regardless of economic circumstances, are able to reap the lifetime benefits of a University of Chicago education.

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More than 400 alumni and friends of the University have established scholarship funds for UChicago students.

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We believe that community starts with sharing common spaceand a common spirit. The University of Chicagos residential housing model integrates faculty, staff, upperclass resident assistants, and a cadre of 50 to 100 students who live together, learn together, laugh together, and care for one another. Your House is a home as soon as you set foot on campus. Resident Heads open their doors to you, sharing their family lives (and pets!), hosting study breaks and Bad Movie Night, 10-minute finals week dance parties and hiking excursions to the Indiana Dunes. Your community builds in the classroom, works out together in Ratner Athletics Center, is nurtured in more than 350 campus clubs and organizations, widens through neighborhood outreach activities, whispers in library study sessions, continues the conversation in a dozen campus coffee shops, skirmishes in 1,600-plus intramural contests, skates down the Midway, and howls with laughter at Off-Off Campuss weekly improv shows.

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Student-athletes practice friendly rivalry in a game of Midnight Soccer in the Midway Plaisance. / At the heart of campus, the Universitys quadrangles are an ideal place to gather at any time of year. / One of many dining facilities on campus, Hutchinson Commons offers eclectic eats from Indian food to pizza. / Students find community and communal space in the Henderson House lounge.

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Think of campus life as an endless feast for your mind. Whatever you hunger for, its here. A stunningly beautiful 215-acre campus with more green space than one imagines in an urban setting, the University of Chicago campus is a certified botanic garden that sprouts lively discourse, experimental music, groundbreaking theater, the worlds largest scavenger hunt, and championship Division III sports teams. Our students study with the Grammy-winning ensemble-in-residence, the Pacifica Quartet. They act in, design, or direct an average of 40 productions annually with University Theater. The arts regularly take center stage, with professional organizations and museums on campus and a steady stream of visiting artists involved in literature, film, poetry, music, and explorations that defy categorization. Campus life stays out late for Midnight Soccer and gets up early for the lakeside midwinter salute to the rising sun. It moves to live music in Hutchinson Courtyard, is captured by student writers and filmmakers, and lives far beyond the classroom, with countless opportunities for involvement and extracurricular enjoyment.

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Student-athletes at the University of Chicago are students first, but we know how to play a good game. The first Heisman Trophy winner was UChicago football legend Jay Berwanger. Since 1987 the Maroons have won over 40 conference titles in 12 different sports. / The Main Quads lush landscaping dates back to 1902, when the son and nephew of famed landscape artist Frederick Law Olmsted planned the gardens at the heart of campus. / Our more than 80 student-run cultural, religious, and LGBTQ groups produce popular programming throughout the year, such as the South Asian Student Associations annual cultural show.

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Chicago: Our city, our laboratory, our playground, our muse, our home. Students come to the University of Chicago expecting a world-class education and discover a world-class city as well. Our Chicago Studies program creates unlimited opportunities to connect with the city, from curriculum on Chicago film history to faculty researching urban issues, from events with metropolitan leaders to the chance to publish original research. Chicago is home to the blues and the Bulls; deep-dish pizza and the Picasso; the Chicago Symphony and The Second City; and 77 neighborhood communities with an ethnicand culinarydiversity unmatched almost anywhere in the world. Our historic Hyde Park neighborhood has been home to residents ranging from Saul Bellow to Muhammad Ali. And of course, theres Lake Michigan, with swimming, sailing, and sandy beaches. Its like having a water park bigger than Belgium in your front yard.

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The University of Chicago is just seven miles from downtown Chicago, easily reached by train, bus, car, or a scenic ride along the bike path bordering Lake Michigan.

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