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All content by Oren Oppenheim

Senior Column: One Thread Throughout the Before and After Times

By Oren Oppenheim, News Editor
June 2, 2021
Levi Hall

Professors Will Individually Choose Whether to Hold In-Person Classes Fall Quarter

By Tony Brooks and Oren Oppenheim
June 27, 2020
The main quadrangle during the fall.

Registrar Adds Note About COVID-19 and Impact on Student Performance to College Transcripts

By Oren Oppenheim, News Editor
June 24, 2020
William Rainey Harper Memorial Library.

University to Shorten Quarters, Lengthen Thanksgiving Break Starting in Autumn 2021

By Oren Oppenheim, News Editor
February 26, 2020
The Hong Kong Campus was opened in November 2018.

Coronavirus Outbreak Causes University to Temporarily Close Beijing Center, Hong Kong Campus, and Cancel Trek

By Caroline Kubzansky and Oren Oppenheim
January 30, 2020
The store sits on the corner of East 61st Street and South Cottage Grove Avenue.

University Purchases Jewel-Osco Property in $20 Million Deal

By Oren Oppenheim and Brad Subramaniam
January 28, 2020
The new açaí bowl cafe just opened in the Booth School of Business.

Açaí Bowl Chain “Rolls” into Booth’s Kovler Cafe

By Oren Oppenheim, News Editor
January 7, 2020
Pho 55, now known as Southside Ken Chinese Cuisine, has a soft opening to celebrate its changeover and remodeling.

Gone but Not Pho-gotten: Vietnamese Restaurant Rebrands as “Pan-Asian” Restaurant

By Oren Oppenheim, News Editor
November 10, 2019
Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay Village, Wisconsin.

Yerkes’s Brighter Future: University Enters Agreement to Give Over Observatory to Local Foundation

By Oren Oppenheim, News Editor
November 6, 2019
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Trader Joe’s Opens in Hyde Park

By Oren Oppenheim, News Editor
October 21, 2019
Student groups celebrate Holi, the annual Hindu festival of colors and spring, with playful event on the quad. Tide to Go required.

Life of the Spirit: A Guide to Religion on Campus

By Oren Oppenheim, News Editor
September 18, 2019
A UCPD officer shines his flashlight next to a UCPD squad car.

UCPD Officers Will Now Carry an Additional Weapon: Tasers

By Oren Oppenheim, News Editor
September 6, 2019
The admissions office housed in Rosenwald Hall.

Yield Rate Rises to 83 Percent for Class of 2023; Admit Rate Now at 6.2 Percent

By Oren Oppenheim, News Editor
July 10, 2019
The storefront of a Trader Joe's store.

Trader Joe’s to Open in Former Treasure Island Building

By Oren Oppenheim, News Editor
May 13, 2019
Charles T. Yerkes' bequest letter, as seen in the University's Special Collections Research Center's Board of Trustees Correspondence of the Secretary Records 1890-1960. Published with permission of the Special Collections Research Center.

Original Bequest Letter for Yerkes Observatory Holds Up Its Future

By Oren Oppenheim, News Editor
May 7, 2019
Ghana President Nana Akufo-Addo answering questions from attendees, sitting alongside IOP executive director Gretchen Crosby-Sims.

Ghana President Examines U.S.–Ghana Relations, Foreign Investment at International House Talk

By Oren Oppenheim, News Editor
April 2, 2019
Incoming city treasurer Melissa Conyears-Ervin

Conyears-Erwin Beats Pawar in Rare Contested Treasurer Election

By Oren Oppenheim, News Editor
April 2, 2019
Louis Wirth, another founder of the UChicago core, teaches class.

The Cultural History of Mankind?

By Oren Oppenheim, News Editor
March 14, 2019
A supporter holding a Sanders campaign sign wears a shirt that reads "Nurses for Bernie!"

At Navy Pier, Bernie Sanders Talks Racial and Economic Justice, Says Years in Chicago “Shaped My Worldview”

By Oren Oppenheim and Zeff Worley
March 3, 2019
South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg in conversation with AP journalist Sara Burnett at the Quadrangle Club.

At IOP, 2020 Hopeful Pete Buttigieg Highlights Gun Safety, “Intergenerational Justice”

By Oren Oppenheim, News Editor
February 16, 2019
South Side developer and UChicago graduate Leon Walker.

Uncommon Interview: Leon Walker, Developer of Woodlawn Jewel-Osco

By Oren Oppenheim, News Editor
February 11, 2019
Students posted fliers raising money to defray the cost of transportation for dining hall staff.

Cold Weather Fund Aims to Reimburse Dining Staff for Polar Vortex Travel

By Oren Oppenheim, News Editor
February 6, 2019
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Woodlawn Jewel-Osco To Open March 7

By Oren Oppenheim, News Editor
January 22, 2019
The admissions office housed in Rosenwald Hall.

Early Applications for the 2018-2019 Cycle Rise by More Than 10 Percent

By Oren Oppenheim, News Editor
January 16, 2019
Sarah McPharlin and Daru Smith walking together while recovering from their transplants. Courtesy of the McPharlin family and UChicago Medicine.

UCM Doctors Perform Historic Dual Triple-Organ Transplants

By Oren Oppenheim, News Editor
January 10, 2019
Comer Children's Hospital.

UChicago Medicine Collaborates with Other Healthcare Providers

By Oren Oppenheim, News Editor
December 4, 2018
David Booth shakes hands with President Zimmer after receiving the medal from Board of Trustees chairman Joseph Neubauer.

Booth School Namesake Awarded University of Chicago Medal

By Oren Oppenheim, News Editor
November 29, 2018
Flores wrote the paper with Ariela Schachter, an assistant professor of sociology at Washington University in St. Louis.

Sociology Professor Tackles ‘Social Illegality’ in NAUC Talk

By Oren Oppenheim, News Editor
November 20, 2018
Dan Koehler stands in front of the observatory's main refractor telescope dome.

The Next Final Frontier: The Efforts to Save Yerkes Observatory

By Oren Oppenheim, News Editor
November 8, 2018
A picture of UChicago Medicine

Seeking Medicare Payments, UCM Sues Department of Health and Human Services

By Oren Oppenheim and Miles Burton
October 29, 2018
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UChicago to Host 11th Annual Clinton Global Innitiative

By Oren Oppenheim, News Editor
October 15, 2018
From left: Dr. Lars Hansen, a winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Economics, and his doctoral student Dr. Amir Yaron MA'1992, PhD'94, who was just nominated to lead the Bank of Israel.

Former Graduate Fellow Nominated to Lead Israel’s Central Bank

By Oren Oppenheim, News Editor
October 12, 2018
Yerkes Observatory's 40-inch refracting telescope inside the Observatory.

As Yerkes Closes, University Hints at Community Efforts and Residential Development

By Oren Oppenheim, News Editor
October 2, 2018
A trauma bay at UChicago Medicine.

Early Numbers Show Trauma Center Will Be One of the Busiest in Illinois

By Oren Oppenheim, News Editor
May 31, 2018
In addition to adding a new sequence, the changes will expand Social Science Inquiry to include multiple tracks.

New SOSC Sequence Added, SSI Expanded

By Oren Oppenheim, News Editor
May 10, 2018
Under current plans, Yerkes Observatory is slated to close later this year.

New Group Submits Proposal to Keep Yerkes Open

By Oren Oppenheim, News Editor
May 10, 2018
A rendering of the Center complex shows a proposed promenade along the Lagoon, with a view of the museum building and, at a distance, the Museum of Science and Industry.

Obama Foundation Announces Library Branch, Community Commitments, and Design Changes for Presidential Library

By Alex Ward and Oren Oppenheim
May 7, 2018
Professor Doyal Harper, right, won the Norman Maclean Faculty Award, while John McGinn (A.B. ’90), left, will receive the 2018 Alumni Service Medal.

Alumni Association Announces 2018 Award Winners

By Oren Oppenheim, News Editor
May 3, 2018
Debra Allen (right) is UChicago Medicine’s clinical director of trauma, and Dr. Ken Wilson (left) is the deputy director of trauma.

Trauma Center Official: “We’re really filling a need for our community”

By Oren Oppenheim, News Editor
April 26, 2018
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Carly Rae Jepsen to Headline 2018 Summer Breeze, MAB Reveals

By Oren Oppenheim, News Editor
April 26, 2018
President Obama points to plans for the Center, scheduled to finish construction in Jackson Park within four years.

University Makes Its First Donation to Obama Foundation

By Oren Oppenheim, News Editor
April 23, 2018
Attendees at the dedication ceremony for Yerkes Observatory, including George Ellery Hale and Edwin Frost, pose for a photograph.

Seeing Stars on the Shore of Lake Geneva: A History of Yerkes, the University’s Moribund Observatory

By Oren Oppenheim, News Editor
April 16, 2018
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UChicago Medicine Receives Final Approval for Trauma Designation

By Oren Oppenheim, News Editor
April 9, 2018
The main building at Yerkes Observatory, located in Williams Bay, Wisconsin

University to End Operations at Yerkes Observatory

By Oren Oppenheim, News Editor
March 10, 2018
The cover of a poetry chapbook created by Garcia’s PATH section, with artwork by first-year Serin Lee and poetry by various students from the section.

Faculty and Students Reflect on New Hum Course

By Oren Oppenheim, News Editor
March 6, 2018
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Alum Charged With Chicago’s First Cryptocurrency Crime

By Oren Oppenheim, News Editor
February 22, 2018
An Amazon facility in Spain.

Groups Contest Chicago’s Bid for Amazon HQ

By Oren Oppenheim, News Editor
February 15, 2018
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“Adolf Bannon” — Scaramucci Gives His Rival a New Nickname at U of C Event

By Oren Oppenheim, News Editor
February 9, 2018
Ten students, mainly situated in the back of the seminar room, held up signs with messages such as “Rigorous Inquiry ≠ Hate” and “Tell my dead ancestors that reason can defeat hate.”

Professor Who Invited Bannon Agrees To Town Hall After Class Sit-in

By Euirim Choi, Katie Akin, and Oren Oppenheim
January 30, 2018

Special Collections Expands with New Anthropology and Linguistics Papers

By Oren Oppenheim, News Editor
January 18, 2018

Bergstein’s Closes Hyde Park Location

By Oren Oppenheim, News Editor
January 17, 2018

UC Effective Altruism Hopes to “Do the Most Good”

By Oren Oppenheim, News Editor
January 11, 2018
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“Bright” Falters, But Netflix Still Shines

By Oren Oppenheim, News Editor
January 8, 2018

UC Dems to Host Forum with Attorney General Candidates

By Oren Oppenheim, News Editor
January 4, 2018
Community organizers opposed the Midway site. Then a head architect said the plan was being reconsidered. Now the Foundation has invited key stakeholders to a private meeting for updates.

Tweaks to Midway Parking Plan for Obama Center, Location Unchanged

By Oren Oppenheim, News Editor
December 18, 2017
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POAH To Open Jewel-Osco in Woodlawn

By Oren Oppenheim, News Editor
November 27, 2017
Marshall Chin

Professor Appointed to National Academy of Medicine

By Oren Oppenheim, News Editor
October 30, 2017

University Releases Crime and Fire Statistics

By Oren Oppenheim, News Editor
October 16, 2017
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