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| If you loved semiobscure ’80s movies and/or closely followed the careers of actors William Katt, Sean Young, or Julian Fellowes, you may remember the Disney movie Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend. You may not know that the movie’s villain, in search of a long-lost living dinosaur, is a heavily fictionalized version of biochemist Roy P. Mackal, SB’49, PhD’53. Science writer Maureen Searcy’s story for the Core explores Mackal’s real-life quest for legendary living creatures. |
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| Want to take another deep dive into the recesses of the past? It’s Snapshots time again! Keep reading for flashback photos from UChicago Magazine’s Alumni News pages. |
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| Roy Mackal tried to bring the scientific rigor he embodied as a biochemist to the pseudoscience of cryptozoology—and it cost him. Maybe the wonder of it all was worth it. More ➞ |
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| The University is launching a new $200 million commitment to educational access and financial aid for undergraduate students. More ➞ |
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| On the new UChicago Crown Family School Podcast, social work scholar Gina Miranda Samuels and coauthor Kelly Faye Jackson discuss their book, Multiracial Cultural Attunement. More ➞ |
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| Chicago Booth economists—and friends—Sendhil Mullainathan and Steven Levitt extol the virtues of change, play, and not knowing what you’re talking about on the Freakonomics podcast. More ➞ |
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| James Hormel, JD’58 (1933–2021) |
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| The first openly gay US ambassador was dean of students at the Law School from 1961 to 1967 and later established a program there to encourage students to enter public service. More ➞ |
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| Michael Murrin (1938–2021) |
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| “Throw in a dragon, and you have an entirely different kind of fiction,” said the scholar of European legends and allegory, and UChicago’s resident “dracologist.” More ➞ |
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| They fished. They lobbed. They biked with a dean. Check out UChicago Magazine’s Summer issue for the latest batch of photos from the archives and readers like you. More ➞ |
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