Susan C. Levine, Rebecca Anne Boylan Professor in Education and Society, Department of Psychology and Comparative Human Development
Susan Levine’s research analyzes and observes young children’s language, numerical, and spatial development. In this session, she will discuss her current research examining socioemotional factors that may impact children’s learning, including parents’ and elementary school teachers’ attitudes and stereotypes about math and spatial learning and students’ own anxieties and stereotypes about these domains. She is currently working on a project that investigates the role of parent-child math interactions on children’s math achievement, attitudes, and anxiety, which involves examining the relation of achievement in numerical aspects of mathematics and spatial thinking.

Kenzo Esquivel, Class of 2017, Environmental Science
Valerie Gutman, Class of 2017, Sociology
Allen L. Linton II, AB’11, AM’13, PhD Student, Department of Political Science
Join us for a conversation with current and former UChicago students, alongside University Community Service Center staff, to unpack how current student civic engagement programming is shifting what it means to be an UChicago student and how that shapes students’ academic, career, and life expectations. Attending alumni will be asked to voluntarily share their UChicago experiences as a student and discuss how that affected their worldview about social responsibility, leadership, and life expectations.

Amara Enyia, Founder and Principal, ACE Municipal Partners; President, Austin Chamber of Commerce; 2015 Chicago Mayoral Candidate
Join the University Community Service Center in a discussion with UChicago alumni and community leaders about the narratives that explain Chicago’s gun violence. The discussion will consider how city policies and history drive this situation and how our fiscal and cultural practices segregate violence to the South and West Sides of Chicago.

Celebrating its fifth anniversary in October 2017, the Logan Center is one of the most visible and exciting examples of the University's investment in the arts. Come tour the 184,000-square-foot facility, which has successfully integrated a rigorous learning environment with a free public space—serving as both a state-of-the-art multidisciplinary arts venue and a hub for exchange between diverse audiences across Chicago and beyond.

Join the downtown Hyde Park community for their seasonal First Thursday event with 40+ Hyde Park businesses on 53rd, 55th, and 57th Streets offering discounts, raffles, refreshments, special menu items, and more. This special shopping and dining night runs the first Thursday of every month from May through November. To view the full list of participating local businesses and their offers, go to firstthurs.com.

Join novelist and assistant professor of practice in the arts Vu Tran in discussion with writer Josh Emmons. They will discuss Emmons debut short story collection, A Moral Tale, and Other Moral Tales, which presents a twist on the classic morality play, where rewards and punishments betray the classic fairy tale logic and the greatest redemption is “to thine own self be true.”

Join us for an information session about University admissions and a walking tour of campus. Space is limited; sign up to attend this session at collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu/visiting/tours/individuals.

Stacy Tessler Lindau, AM’02, Associate Professor, Obstetrics/Gynecology and Medicine-Geriatrics
The most compelling health inequity is evident in large life span gaps over small geographic distances in the United States. A person living in Washington Park—the University’s neighbor to the north—can expect 69 years of life; 15 fewer than what can be expected by a person living in Chicago’s wealthier Streeterville community. University researchers believe that solutions to this injustice can be engineered using the tools of science and by working in partnership with people who know the injustices best. Stacy Lindau will describe how she and other researchers are engineering solutions to injustice affecting the health of people living in poverty and the arc of innovation and discovery in the field of population health improvement. Generously sponsored by the University of Chicago Womenʼs Board.

Looking for a way to give back to your community? Regularly volunteering your time provides valuable support to the community, your peers, future students, and the ongoing vitality of the University. Join us at this volunteer fair to explore the many ways you can contribute based on your passions and availability—or let us know how we can create an opportunity just for you. Visit with Career Advancement, UChicagoGRAD, the Alumni Club of Chicago, UChicago Global Engagement, and affinity group staff members and volunteers to learn more. You’ve experienced firsthand the distinctive, transformative nature of a UChicago education. Help others have the same experience by joining 11,000 fellow UChicago volunteers to share your skills, knowledge, and experience.

Sarah J. Duncan, LAB'85, Codirector, Network for College Success
Eliza Moeller, AM'04, Director of Research and Data Strategy, Network for College Success
Meghan Baer, Development Manager, Network for College Success
How did Chicago’s high school graduation rate increase from 57 percent to 74 percent in just a decade? Join SSA’s Network for College Success for a conversation on what actually happened and the role NSP played to increase and sustain student outcomes throughout Chicago. Since 2006 NSP has partnered with public high schools to translate the research coming out of the UChicago Consortium on School Research into action, working with over 700 educators each year to provide professional learning communities, coaching, and intensive trainings. An additional 20,000 community members now have high school diplomas than would have if the graduation rate had not increased. The high school diploma remains highly predictive of everything we care about: future earnings, civic participation, health outcomes, and educational attainment. Learn about Chicago’s remarkable achievements in education as well as NSP’s focus on the next level of work: dramatically increasing the number of students applying to and enrolling in quality postsecondary institutions, such as UChicago.

Take the famous tour of the Rockefeller tower with University carillonneur Joey Brink—271 steps all the way to the top—and enjoy the half-hour recital, which is broadcast into the chapel by live audio/video feed (unless other events are occurring in the chapel). Limited to 20 guests. Please gather at the front desk; tours are on a first-come, first-served basis.

Steve Cicala, AB’04, Assistant Professor, Harris Public Policy
Ryan Kellogg, Professor, Harris Public Policy
Elisabeth Moyer, Associate Professor, Department of Geophysical Sciences
Access to reliable energy is critical for economic growth. But at the same time, the world’s energy choices are leading to levels of pollution that are substantially shortening people's lives and causing climate change. The energy challenge requires identifying solutions to these problems of access to inexpensive and reliable energy, while limiting environmental damage and guarding against disruptive climate change. In this research showcase, learn from some of the UChicago's top experts about the key energy trends and market forces at play to meet this challenge. Lunch provided. Advance registration is requested at bit.ly/GlobalEnergyChallenge. If you have not registered, admission is on a first-come, first-served basis.

College alumni from the Classes of 2012 through 2016 are invited to participate in a résumé review with Career Advancement. Bring your résumé, sit with a reviewer, and leave with an updated, polished résumé for the next step in your professional journey.

Public art on the University of Chicago campus is a fascinating, spontaneous experience, with some sculptures boldly claiming open spaces and others tucked unexpectedly between buildings. Led by a Smart Museum docent, this one-hour walking tour covers a small sample of the stunning works that have helped shape UChicago’s intellectual and cultural life for decades.

Join us for an information session about University admissions and a walking tour of campus. Space is limited; sign up to attend this session at collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu/visiting/tours/individuals.

Arts + Public Life invites all UChicago alumni to take a tour of the Arts Block and the burgeoning arts community in Washington Park. Be sure to visit the Arts Incubator exhibition The Petty Biennial, followed by a cocktail reception next door at the Currency Exchange Café from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., featuring specialty drinks, small bites, and a local Chicago DJ. Chicago-based arts entrepreneurs will have handcrafted goods available for purchase at Bing, located just east of the Currency Exchange Cafe.

Elaine Allensworth, Lewis-Sebring Director, UChicago Consortium on School Research
Claudia Costin, Founder, Innovations and Excellence in Education Polices, World Bank
Maninder Kaur-Dwivedi, Joint Secretary, Government of India; Adviser, National Institution for Transforming India (NITI Aayog)
Rohan Sandhu, AB’12 (Moderator), Senior Engagement Manager, International Innovation Corps and Tata Centre for Development, UChicago
Over the past two decades, the world has made remarkable progress in ensuring access to learning, with about 90 percent of the world’s children enrolled in primary school. However, 250 million children around the world–particularly in developing countries–lack the most basic literacy and numeracy skills, despite attending at least four years of school. The Center for Universal Education finds that there is a 100-year gap in learning levels between developed and developing countries, and unless action is taken quickly and at scale, this gap is unlikely to be bridged. Goals have rightly shifted from just access to education, to access to quality education. Realizing these ambitions necessitates large-scale and systemic changes in how we manage and administer education. Join the International Innovation Corps panel discussion to understand how countries can implement such systemic transformations to improve learning and to shed light on a number of questions: What does systemic change mean? What are the areas that impact education quality most directly and how should we prioritize the factors that are most critical? How can we engage the various actors and stakeholders in the process? And finally, how do we administer and effectively manage this change?

Join your classmates from the Class of 1987 for a special screening of the film Untouchable and a Q&A with writer/director David Feige, AB’88.

This event requires the purchase of a separate ticket and is not included in the Alumni Weekend Pass.
Join your classmates to celebrate your reunion. The evening will include a cocktail reception and dinner, featuring a special appearance by College dean John W. Boyer, AM’69, PhD’75. A class photo will be taken. Complimentary valet parking will be provided. Don’t miss the after-party in the Quad Club lounge from 9:30 p.m. to midnight.

This event requires the purchase of a separate ticket and is not included in the Alumni Weekend Pass.
Join your classmates to celebrate your reunion. The evening will include a cocktail reception and buffet, featuring a special appearance by College dean John W. Boyer, AM’69, PhD’75. A class photo will be taken. Complimentary valet parking will be provided. Don’t miss the after-party in the Quad Club lounge from 9:30 p.m. to midnight.

This event requires the purchase of a separate ticket and is not included in the Alumni Weekend Pass.
Join your classmates to celebrate your reunion. The evening will include a reception and dinner, featuring a special appearance by College dean John W. Boyer, AM’69, PhD’75. A class photo will be taken. Don’t miss the after-party in the Quad Club lounge from 9:30 p.m. to midnight.

This event requires the purchase of a separate ticket and is not included in the Alumni Weekend Pass.
Join your classmates to celebrate your reunion. The evening will include food and drinks, featuring a special appearance by College dean John W. Boyer, AM’69, PhD’75. A class photo will be taken. Complimentary valet parking will be provided. Don’t miss the after-party in the Quad Club lounge from 9:30 p.m. to midnight.

Join this walking tour of the University’s architectural history guided by a Chicago Architecture Foundation docent and explore the changing campus landscape. Styles including Gothic, modernist, and contemporary will be discussed, from the early buildings to the newest construction.

Diane Herrmann had a remarkable tenure at the University of Chicago, joining the Math Department as a graduate student in 1975 and retiring as codirector of undergraduate studies in mathematics in 2015. She touched the lives of countless students, including those who had no natural passion for numbers before entering her classroom. In honor of Herrmann’s retirement, several of her former students have come together to establish the Diane Herrmann Internship Fund. All Alumni Weekend attendees are welcome to join us for this celebration of Diane Herrmann and her lasting legacy at the University.

For more than 100 years, the Chicago Maroon has provided news, viewpoints, and coverage of the issues facing our campus and community. We invite alumni, readers, and friends of the Maroon to join our discussion with Institute of Politics director David Axelrod, AB’76, and Chicago Maroon editor in chief Adam Thorp, Class of 2018, on the news media in the 21st century—where we are and where we're headed. Join us afterward at the Alumni and Friends Family Festival for networking and conversation.

This is your chance to participate in a mini version of UChicago's world famous Scav Hunt—the largest and best scavenger hunt in the world, hosted every May since 1987—and compete for prizes and glory. Take a stroll down memory lane with a greatly abbreviated edition of Scav Hunt as a spring afternoon diversion. Register individually or in teams of up to five members. This event is hosted by the Alumni Club of Chicago. Advance registration at http://www.uccochicago.org/article.html?aid=1507 is encouraged, but teams can also register on site.

The women's rugby club is hosting its annual Prom Dress Rugby game. Come watch the current team compete against the alumni, all in prom dresses. Access the South Field at 60th St. and Kimbark Ave.

Ariel Kalil, Professor, Harris Public Policy; Director, Center for Human Potential and Public Policy
Join Ariel Kalil for a presentation on her current research, which examines the historical evolution of income-based gaps in parenting behavior and children’s cognitive and noncognitive skills. Children face very different opportunities in life depending on the circumstances of their birth. Inequality begins at home, developing from myriad differences in the ways advantaged and disadvantaged parents interact with their children. To equalize the playing field, governments may need to invest in parents so parents can better invest in their children. Unfortunately, large-scale parenting interventions typically yield modest effect sizes, at best, and often do not even change children’s skills in the long term. Understanding what motivates parents to invest in their children could have a major impact on the design of policies to reduce inequality in children’s skill development.

Relax and enjoy a spring afternoon with friends and family—and a cold drink—at the Baderbräu Beer Garden, featuring an assortment of local brews and enticing fare. The Alumni Association thanks Baderbräu founder and principal Robert Sama, AB’93, for his generous sponsorship of the Baderbräu Beer Garden.

Invitation Only
This event requires separate registration and is not included in the Alumni Weekend Pass. Advance registration is required. Transportation to and from the game is not provided.
Class of 1987 alumni are invited to attend a special Cubs game in the Budweiser Patio at Wrigley Field. For questions contact Alexandra Field at alfield@uchicago.edu or 773.702.2762.

Jillian Bowman, Class of 2020, Collegiate Scholars Program Graduate 2016
Stephanie Greene, Class of 2017, Collegiate Scholars Program Graduate 2013
Jonathan Najarro, Class of 2020, Collegiate Scholars Program Graduate 2016
The University of Chicago Collegiate Scholars Program was founded in 2003 as a three-year program that aims to prepare talented Chicago Public Schools students in grades 10–12 for admission and success at the nation’s top colleges and universities. Learn more about the program from the unique perspectives of the panel, which will feature Collegiate Scholars Program alumni who are currently enrolled in the College in a host of different subject areas and with a variety of career interests. Network and connect with alumni and students, share memories, and get involved to make an impact.

Arne Duncan, LAB’82, Managing Partner, Emerson Collective; Former US Secretary of Education
Kate Grossman, LAB’88, Senior Enterprise Editor, WBEZ; Former Deputy Editorial Page Editor, Chicago Sun-Times
Arne Duncan will discuss his community-based work to combat unemployment by providing training and skills-based education for disconnected youth in Chicago. Youth unemployment rates are extremely high in Chicago, particularly among African American males, and are a huge contributor to the level of violence in the city. Kate Grossman will lead the conversation.

Join College dean John W. Boyer, AM’69, PhD’75, and Georgetown University professor John R. McNeill, LAB’71, for a memorial lecture honoring William H. McNeill, LAB’34, AB’38, AM’39, a pioneer in the field of world history. William H. McNeill was a teacher and scholar at the University for four decades. The Robert A. Millikan Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in History, he was the author of more than 20 books, from the sweeping history of human disease, Plagues and Peoples, to a memoir of the University during the presidency of Robert Maynard Hutchins. John McNeill will provide a personal perspective on his late father’s career, character, and commitments.

Reunite with old friends, participate in tradition, and celebrate our alma mater at the University’s annual singing competition. A celebration of UChicago Greek life since 1911, this year’s event is sure to create lasting memories. Extreme weather location is Bartlett Dining Commons, 5640 S. University Ave.

Join your classmates at the home of Deborah Strauss, AB’62, AM’64, for a casual brunch. For details and to register, contact Alex Field at alfield@uchicago.edu or 773.702.2762.

Enjoy an exhibition of UChicago students’ work, featuring portraits of immigrants in Chicago—created under the guidance of French artist Christian Raby—with short biographies of each subject. Presented by the Humanities Collegiate Division, France Chicago Center, and Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts.

Rockefeller Chapel celebrates the last choral Sunday of the academic year with the Chapel Choir singing Bach’s iconic motet “Jesu Meine Freude,” with organ and carillon music. Dean Elizabeth Davenport offers the sermon.