Dear Reader, 

Here’s what the Maroon has been covering this week. 

News

After 12 years, the Marine Biological Laboratory will be ending its partnership with the University this summer. The biology and environmental science research center, located in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, will continue its academic programs and existing research collaborations with the University. 

The Fundamentals: Issues and Texts major admitted 32 students to its second-year cohort this fall. The cohort is the largest in the program’s history. 

Arts and Culture

Members of the UChicago Guild of Carillonists spoke to the Maroon about what it’s like to play a building-sized instrument. “There’s absolutely no chance I would have experienced this instrument if I did not just go, ‘Oh, I want to give it a go at college,’” said guild member Will Vanman. 

María Zardoya, lead singer of the indie pop band The Marías, brought her experimental solo project, Not for Radio, to the Auditorium Theatre last month as part of her “Winter in the Garden” theater tour. “The concert was mesmerizing, weaving the evocative songs into a unique interpretation of Swan Lake,” writes Arts Reporter Isabella Coleman. 

Arts Reporter Ainslie Chen covered a new exhibition at the Renaissance Society that reinterprets the I Ching, an ancient Chinese divination text dating back to the Zhou dynasty. 

Defiantly explicit, Zoya Cherkassky: The Global Political Crisis is on display at the Neubauer Collegium. “Would another institution, without the Collegium’s commitment to inquiry and intellectual creativity, have hosted an exhibition like this? I would wager not,” writes Head Arts and Culture Editor Nolan Schaffer.