We're wrapping up Yu Miri's residency here at UChicago with a second event, “Sound & Voice in Yu Miri's Work,” featuring Yu Miri reading from The End of August, a panel discussion of her work with Michael Bourdaghs, Scott Aalgaard, Yuki Miyamoto, and me, plus a staged reading performance of one scene from the work-in-progress play OBON. We're also planning two staged readings of the new play, first at Logan Center for the Arts on the UChicago campus on 9/21 and a second at Theater Wit on 9/23 (more details on that coming soon).

Professor at @UChicago Eman Abdelhadi who’s also Abdul El-Sayed’s sister: “F*** the University of Chicago... but where can I build power? I have access to thousands of people I can organize... This is where I need to build power.”

It was great catching up with our latest class of @UChicago Obama Foundation Scholars. They’ve been working hard to improve their communities, and I’m looking forward to following their journeys.

It was great meeting our newest class of @ObamaFoundation Scholars at @UChicago. Young leaders like them are the source of my hope, and I believe they will power a brighter future for all of us.

Applications are open for the 2026 Rising Stars in Data Science workshop — hosted at @UChicago in collaboration with @Harvard, @HDSIUCSD, and @StanfordHAI. Join a virtual info session on July 23 to find out if it's the right fit. Applications due August 3. Register here:

👤 Our Professional of the Month for April is @zingales , Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance at @UChicago he has explored extensively the relationship between capitalism and society. Check out his keynote session on our website ➡️:

🇺🇸BREAKING: Democrat Sen. Elissa Slotkin said she wants prosecutions of Trump Admin officials specifically to deter young Americans from taking jobs in the administration. She told a Vox podcast at UChicago she hopes recent college graduates think, “Lord, that might be buying myself a ton of problems,” and avoid participating, calling it a deliberate “deterrence message.” Slotkin has previously named officials including Kristi Noem and Jeanine Pirro as targets and compared the plan to Europe’s post-authoritarian purges.