William Mullen

Northwestern University Tuesday presented a new president, one who may be the prototypical leader of higher education into the next century: an outstanding scholar and administrator who also is adept...

A couple of weeks ago, Roy Lewis was in a small storage room filled with meteorites at the Field Museum of Natural History, showing off an exquisite, 2-inch-long glass ampul....

Two years ago, while vacationing with his children on a beach in Venice, Fla., James T. Frainey, of suburban Frankfort, interrupted one of nature's most wondrous mysteries. And on Thursday,...

In early 1961, four young children living near St. John Brebeuf Church and elementary school in Niles died of leukemia. Alarmed by the deaths, parishioners soon discovered four more children...

Proving himself the prophet of his own destiny, Russian literary icon Alexander Solzhenitsyn said Friday that he will leave his Vermont home and end 20 years of exile May 27...

A forecast for clear skies and warmer temperatures may not always bode so pleasantly for many Americans this summer when their weatherman tacks on something called the "UV Index" to...

Nature versus nurture will be the puzzle University of Chicago scientists will try to solve when they look at the brain of serial killer John Wayne Gacy in about two...

For someone who shunned publicity and died 56 years ago, Kate Buckingham, one of Chicago's great eccentrics, certainly has been in the news a lot recently. In October, the overwhelming...

Like many people expecting out-of-town guests this summer, Rosalie Clark the other day ordered some extra sets of keys. These weren't for her own house, mind you. As Chicago's chief...

Two paleontologists from Rock Island's tiny Augustana College have unearthed the fossil remains of a new kind of dinosaur, the first ever found in Antarctica, providing new evidence about climate...