Following significant cuts to federal funding accessed through the Chicago Department of Public Health, UCMed’s leading HIV prevention and care program faces major service reductions.
A Maroon analysis of data compiled by Undergraduate Student Government’s Elections & Rules Committee showed high abstention rates in USG cabinet races.
UChicago trustees’ donations to Republican candidates increased considerably in the 2024 election cycle, according to Federal Election Commission records reviewed by the Maroon.
Provost Katherine Baicker and CFO Ivan Samstein sat down with the Maroon to discuss the impacts of grant freezes, visa revocations, and other federal policy changes on the University’s finances.
Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, who was elected today by the College of Cardinals to serve as the new pope, attended Catholic Theological Union in East Hyde Park.
Nevin Hall, the vice president of student organizations and chair of the Elections & Rules Committee, as well as three other elections committee members were impeached on May 7 after they allegedly attempted to change USG bylaws to consolidate power, denied RSO funding based on personal biases, and planned to invalidate the results of the spring 2025 USG elections.
"This is the one school across the country that promotes speaking for what you believe in, and I don’t feel comfortable doing that," an undergraduate student from India said in an interview with the Maroon.
The University filed a joint suit against the National Science Foundation after the agency announced it would reduce funding for indirect costs of research to a universal 15 percent rate, down from a previously negotiated 64 percent rate.
HRL director David Hibbler told the Maroon that two resident head positions previously removed from Renee Granville-Grossman Residential Commons would also be restored next year.
