William Mullen

In the spring of 1984 road construction crews headed out onto the Eisenhower Expressway, positioning temporary concrete barriers to begin a major two-year reconstruction project. The barriers were used to...

Part of the higher cost was due, of course, to the normal increase in the prices of construction materials. And part came from the use of new features, such as...

Harper`s insistence on creating a community of scholars changed the nature of the university in ways even he could not have foreseen. Henry Ives Cobb, the architect Harper hired to...

He believes that opening up the schools with something like a voucher system would encourage public schools to perform more like private and parochial schools. The private and parochial schools,...

Becker`s method reduces whatever phenomena he is studying to a mathematical formula, giving each component of the formula a mathematical value. That means he is assigning numerical values to human...

At 6:30 a.m. one day in the autumn of 1980 the telephone roused the Hyde Park household of University of Chicago physicist James Cronin. The caller was a wire-service reporter...

When a university demands a great faculty as Chicago does, it must, of course, demand an outstanding student body as well. When the university opened, it largely attracted the brightest...

Chandrasekhar, known simply as ''Chandra'' to his colleagues and students alike, is one of the most revered men at the school. In 1930, at the age of 19, Chandra took...

Hutchins` ''core'' and the academic tradition so lovingly nurtured at Chicago might sound to an outsider like a lot of pious, academic platitudes. In reality, they are issues of intense...

Dixon and the dissident student leaders made their departure from the Midway campus, and Chicago`s academic program remained firmly intact. The same could not be said in dozens of other...