Students
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Shatha Almutawa
PhD candidate
The diversity of disciplines at the Divinity School makes it possible for me to study how…tales traveled from India…to Spain.”
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Cristina Moon
AB’05
The condition is ripe for us to be creative and do something to build a positive model for what it means to be human beings.”
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Saalika Mela
Muslim students helped UChicago Dining formulate halal food options
The demand for halal food is growing across the country, and one of the biggest drivers is activism on university campuses.”
Faculty
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Dr. Melissa Gillam
Chief of Family Planning and Contraceptive Research and Head of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology at the University of Chicago Medical Center
We sometimes…forget some of the basic aspects, such as teaching youth how to treat one another in a respectful way and to respect differences.”
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Wu Hung
Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor of Art History and East Asian Languages & Civilizations
This show is a conversation between the artists in China and the people of Chicago. We are trying to capture the excitement and reflect a society in transition.”
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Raghuram Rajan
Eric J. Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business
We take for granted that everybody has the same opportunities, but they haven’t.”
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Geoffrey Stone
Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor of Law
Twenty-five years ago no one in this room would have imagined that the Supreme Court of the United States might hold that homosexuals had a constitutional right to marry one another.”
Community
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Cassandra Wilson
Jazz Musician
When you have an opportunity to work with students at that age, you can…have a much more intimate type of communication.”
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Ameya Pawar
SM’09
Every one will ask you how many campaigns you’ve participated in or what experience you have. Not many will ask if you really just care about the community.”
Alumni
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Rebecca Pallmeyer
JD’79
My years at the Law School trained me to listen to and understand views very different from my own.”
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Sandeep Ahuja
MPP'06
There are hardly any qualified physicians who are willing to work in the slums because living conditions are awful and there’s no money to be made.”
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Monica Vela
MD’93
She has just the right set of life experiences to be the leader of this [health care disparities] course. She knows what it means to be a minority patient or a patient with limited means.”
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Francisco Castillo Trigueros
PhD’13
I have pieces that have relationships with Mexico, but this will actually be this thing about Mexico, which is very meaningful to me, and I just would not be able to do it without this kind of support.”
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Benjamin Mays
AM’25, PhD’35
My mother never went to school a day in her life, but she prayed that God would help me in my ambition”
Staff
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Alice Chandler
77-year employee of the University of Chicago
The printed program and President’s remarks each year will recognize your years of service. You have been an inspiration to all of us, and I believe that this is an appropriate and well-deserved recognition of your contributions to one of the great universities in the world.”
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Rudy Nimocks
Director of Community Partnerships
That’s what a university can do in a neighborhood—get its kids to think differently about their future.”
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Kim Ransom
Founding Director of the University of Chicago Collegiate Scholars Program
My hope is that I will…better know how to use my own gifts…to build leadership in our young people.”
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Nadia Quarles
Assistant Vice President for Business Diversity
There are a lot of opportunities here for qualified minority- and women-owned businesses.”
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Micaela Vargas
Micaela Vargas is an executive assistant for the Office of Civic Engagement
We’re all ambassadors of the University, and the personal connections we make with members of the community can be far more meaningful than any official meeting.”
