Annual Report of the Provost, 1999–00

In this year’s Annual Report, I will focus on three subjects: new faculty appointments, other highlights of the past year, and new initiatives for 2000–01.

Faculty

Perhaps the most important and most gratifying responsibility of the president, the provost, the deans and the chairs is to recruit and retain the very best scholars and teachers. As Robert Maynard Hutchins explained in 1935: “At any time under any conditions there is only one way to get a distinguished university. That is to get a distinguished faculty.”

Over the past seven years, I have spent a good deal of time working with deans, chairs and faculty in this common endeavor. This experience has given me some insight into why faculty who could have their pick of universities choose the University of Chicago. Three reasons predominate.

First, they choose the University of Chicago because of what it is and what it represents to them and to the world. Chicago is, quite simply, the most serious university, and they are serious people. They believe that ideas matter. They come to Chicago because this is the university that attracts faculty—and students—who are serious about learning.

Second, they choose Chicago because of its unique quality of discourse. This is a place where faculty and students ask the hardest questions – often without regard for the usual conventions of civility; where the highest form of discourse is the interrogative; and where, as the faculty Committee for a Year of Reflection once observed, the proper response to the most withering question is not resentment, but gratitude. This is not a place for everyone, and it is certainly not a place for the faint-of-heart, but if it’s right for you, you know it.

Finally, they choose the University of Chicago because of its deep tradition of interdisciplinary research and education. At no other university can students and faculty pass so easily across traditional disciplinary boundaries to mix classics and political science, chemistry and biology, public policy and genetics, or law and economics. Other universities try to be interdisciplinary; at Chicago it is bred in the bone.

It is these characteristics of the University of Chicago that I hear most often voiced by those faculty members who choose Chicago. As members of this community, it is our responsibility to nurture and to reaffirm these values. As Edward Levi observed half a century ago:

"Habits of thought and searching intellectual honesty must be acquired and forever renewed. The standards of excellence are demanding, and excellence is required. To comprehend our cultural traditions, to appreciate the works of the mind, to see as well as others have seen, to know and to express beyond the present limits of knowledge, to preserve and to open the way of reason for others—these are our goals. The path is not an easy one."

In this spirit, the University appointed 54 new members of the faculty during the 1999–2000 academic year. Our new tenured colleagues at the rank of full Professor will play an especially pivotal role in helping us stay on the path that brought them here:

Raymond Ball (GSB), from the University of Rochester, one of the pioneers of accounting research, whose work on topics from earnings and stock prices to international accounting has profoundly influenced the field;

John Brehm (Political Science), from Duke University, a scholar who brings sophisticated methods to bear in investigations of public opinion and political psychology, organization theory, and public administration;

Frederick de Armas (Romance Languages), from Pennsylvania State University, whose knowledge of classical and European literary traditions, scientific history, and the visual arts adds special insight to his interpretations of Spanish Golden Age literature and culture;

Ian Foster (Computer Science), jointly with Argonne National Laboratory, an international leader in the field of high-performance computing investigating parallel and distributed programming systems, algorithms and applications;

Philip Hamburger (Law School), from George Washington University, a distinguished American legal historian whose work reconceptualizes the impact of the First Amendment on the separation of church and state;

John Heaton (GSB), an empirical financial economist from Northwestern University whose research has illuminated the effects of market incompleteness on asset pricing and the performance of the economy;

Vinay Kumar (Pathology), from the University of Texas, a renowned experimental pathologist and immunologist and authority on natural-killer cell differentiation and receptors;

Tanya Luhrmann (Human Development), a social anthropologist from the University of California at San Diego, whose wide-ranging fieldwork has most recently focused on the ethnography of contemporary American psychiatry;

Sally Radovick (Pediatrics), from Harvard, whose research in pediatric endocrinology has significantly advanced our understanding of the regulation of neuroendocrine genes involved in growth and development;

Don Randel (Music), from Cornell University, an authority on Medieval and Renaissance Spanish music and music theory, both sacred and profane;

Neil Shubin (Organismal Biology and Anatomy), a vertebrate paleontologist from the University of Pennsylvania whose work illuminates the interface of developmental and evolutionary biology in studies of amphibian limb evolution;

Theo van den Hout (Oriental Institute), an internationally recognized Hittitologist and philologist from the University of Amsterdam, who has been appointed co-editor of the Chicago Hittite Dictionary;

Fredric Wondisford (Medicine), from Harvard, a leading endocrinologist working in the areas of thyroid hormone action and resistance and pituitary and hypothalamic gene expression;

Iris Young (Political Science), a political philosopher from the University of Pittsburgh who holds a leading place among feminist theorists for the insightful solutions she offers to key dilemmas in the field.

Selected Highlights of the 1999–2000 Year

Academic Investments:

During 1999–2000, the University made several major investments in order to directly enhance our research and educational programs. Here are a few examples:

To support the research mission of the Physical Sciences Division in such fields as chemistry, physics, materials science and biophysical dynamics, the University increased from $60 million to $80 million the central University support of the joint BSD/PSD Interdivisional Research Building. As Dean David Oxtoby observed in announcing this decision to the PSD faculty, this level of support, which reflects the University’s “commitment to excellence in science” and to “strengthening the connections” between the physical and biological sciences, “is unparalleled in the history of this University.”
To assist the Physical Sciences Division in its recruitment of world-class scientists, the University increased its ongoing support of the Division’s “start-up” and matching funds by half-a-million dollars annually.
Two years ago, in order to meet the need of the Humanities and Social Sciences Divisions for additional support of graduate education (e.g., fellowships, stipends for teaching assistantships, etc.), the University increased its support of graduate students in Humanities and Social Sciences by a total of $1 million annually. In last year’s Annual Report, I noted that this “is an effort that should remain a high priority in the future.” This past spring, the University doubled this commitment. Thus, from 1999 to 2003, the University’s annual support of graduate education in the Humanities and Social Sciences will increase by $1 million per Division.
In 1999–2000, the University and the University of Chicago Hospitals agreed to extend the Academic Renewal Fund indefinitely (i.e., for as long as the economy of the Medical Center can support it). Through the Academic Renewal Fund, which was established in 1995, the Hospitals provide $15 million annually to support research, education, and clinical innovation in the biological and medical sciences. This support is critical to the aspirations of the University and the Biological Sciences Division and will play a central role in helping to make possible the BSD’s component of the new BSD/PSD Interdivisional Research Building.

National Medal of Science:

In an unprecedented achievement, three members of the University of Chicago faculty (one-fourth of all the recipients this year) were awarded the National Medal of Science. Jim Cronin (astronomy & astrophysics) was cited for his “fundamental contributions to the fields of elementary particle physics and astrophysics”; Leo Kadanoff (physics) was cited for his innovative contributions to “theoretical research in statistical, solid state and nonlinear physics”; and Stuart Rice (chemistry) was cited for “challenging the very nature of modern physical chemistry.” Twelve members of the University of Chicago faculty have received the National Medal of Science since it was established in 1959. It is noteworthy that Professors Cronin, Kadanoff and Rice each have received the University’s Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.

American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellows:

Seven members of the faculty were elected Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences—John Carlstrom (astronomy & astrophysics), David Jablonski (geophysical sciences), Saul Levmore (law), Jonathan Z. Smith (humanities), Dick Thaler (GSB), Robert Wald (physics) and Tony Yu (divinity). Over the past several years, the University of Chicago ranks second among the nation’s leading private research universities in the total number of faculty members elected to the academy.

Other faculty awards:

Brice Bosnich (chemistry) was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London; Robert Fogel (GSB) was elected to the American Philosophical Society; John Coetzee (social thought) received the Booker Prize for his novel Disgrace; Martha McClintock (psychology) was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences; Sue Coppersmith (physics) was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; and Michael Camille (art history), Susan Goldin-Meadow (psychology), Laura Letinsky (committee on visual arts) and Ingrid Rowland (art history) received Guggenheim Fellowships; to name just a few of the many honors our faculty garnered in 1999–2000.

Citations:

To provide a glimpse into the extraordinary breadth of the faculty’s research, I offer this sampling of books published by members of the faculty in the past year:

Danielle Allen, The Politics of Punishing in Democratic Athens
Lauren Berlant, Intimacy
William Borden, Brief Dynamic Psychotherapy
Pastora San Juan Cafferty, Hispanics in the United States
Susan Gal, The Politics of Gender after Socialism
Elizabeth Garrett, Legislation and Statutory Interpretation
Andreas Glaeser, Identity, Germany and the Berlin Police
Lloyd Gruber, The Rise of Supranational Institutions
Tom Gunning, The Films of Fritz Lang
Jonathan Lear, Happiness, Death and the Remainder of Life
Marshall Lindheimer, Medical Disorders During Pregnancy
Janel Mueller, Elizabeth the First
Larry Norman, Moliere and the Social Commerce of Depiction
William Parish, Chinese Urban Life under Reform
Robert Pippin, Henry James and Modern Moral Life
Martha Roth, Chicago Assyrian Dictionary 14: R Volume
Linda Seidel, Lazarus, Gislebertus and the Cathedral of Autun
Stephen Stigler, The History of Statistical Concepts and Methods
Noel Swerdlow, Ancient Astronomy and Celestial Divination
Rebecca West, Gianni Celati: The Craft of Everyday Storytelling

If you publish a monograph during the coming year, please send a copy to the Provost’s Office so President Randel and I can have the opportunity to learn firsthand of your research. (We will then pass your work on to the Library for our permanent faculty collection.)

Research Awards:

awards increased 58% to $13 million and SSA awards increased 65% to $7 million. Illustrative of these awards were an $11 million grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences and the National Cancer Institute to support a nationwide study of the pharmacogenetics of anticancer agents; a $2.3 million award from the McCormick Tribune Foundation to the University’s Center for Early Childhood Research; a $900,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education to Melissa Roderick (SSA) to study the Chicago Public Schools’ new initiatives ending social promotion; a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to Milan Mrksich (chemistry) to create “designer” monolayers that convert electrical signals into biological signals; and a $300,000 award from the Ford Foundation to Arjun Appadurai (anthropology) to study the character and dynamics of transnational advocacy-oriented networks.

College Admissions:

1999–2000 was another outstanding year in College admissions. Applications increased to 7,396 (a 34% increase over 1997–98); early action applications increased to 1,648 (a 91% increase over 1997–98); the admit rate declined to 44% (down from 61% in 1997–98); the yield (the percentage of admitted students who decided to enroll at Chicago) increased to 33.4% (up from 30.2% in 1997–98); 63% of the entering class were in the top 5% of their high school class (up from 43% in 1997–98); the median SAT score of entering students was 1381 (up from 1349 in 1997–98); 48% of the entering class were evaluated as academic “1’s or 2’s” by our admissions office (up from 30% in 1997–98); 144 members of the entering class are either African-American or Hispanic (up from 112 in 1997–98); and 94 members of the entering class are international students (up from 58 in 1997–98). It is also noteworthy that the number of National Merit winners in the entering class has increased from 84 in 1997 (21st in the nation) to 97 in 1998 (17th in the nation) to 139 in 1999 (9th in the nation). (It is also worth noting that our College students in 1999–2000 won 1 Rhodes Scholarship, 3 Marshalls, 2 Fulbrights and 4 Goldwaters.)

Endowment:

Over the past seven years, the value of the University’s endowment has tripled from $1.2 billion to $3.6 billion. This growth is the result of extraordinary fundraising, a very strong stock market and an exceptionally successful investment strategy. In terms of investment returns, in recent years the University of Chicago has achieved the fifth highest compound annual growth rate among the 20 universities with the largest endowments.

Fundraising:

Since 1993, the University’s annual fund-raising progress has more than tripled from $79 million to a record $260 million in 1999–2000. This represents the greatest percentage increase in fundraising during this time of any major private research university in the nation. Among the major gift commitments received in the past year were $25 million from Trustee Dennis Keller (MBA ‘68) for the Graduate School of Business; $20 million from Max Palevsky (Ph.B ‘48, SB ‘48), for whom the University will name the new residence halls; $10 million from the Frank Family, including Trustee Jim Frank, to support graduate fellowships in the Biological Sciences; $12 million from Robert Rothman (MBA ‘77) and $10 million from David Booth (MBA ‘71) for the Graduate School of Business; and $8.5 million from Trustee Peter May (AB ‘64, MBA ‘65) for the College and the Graduate School of Business.

Campus Master Plan Projects:

The University of Chicago Press building, at 60th Street and Dorchester Avenue, will open this fall.
The new parking building at 55th and Ellis, which will hold more than 1,000 cars, a bowling alley and offices for student activities and services, will open in January.
The Midway skating rink, a joint project of the University of Chicago and the Chicago Park District, will open this winter. The Midway Plaisance Master Plan, which is also a joint effort of the University and the Park District, offers a revitalized design for the Midway, including new gardens, crosswalks, bridges, lighting, fountains and year-round events. If you would like to review the details of this Plan, please contact Vice-President Hank Webber.
The Max Palevsky Residential Commons, which will house more 730 students near Regenstein Library, will open in September 2001. This facility was designed by Mexican architect Riccardo Legorreta, who received the American Institute of Architecture’s Gold Medal Award for 2000.
The renovation and conversion of Bartlett Hall into a 550-seat dining commons will be completed in September 2001.
In January, the University will begin construction of the Gerald Ratner Athletics Center, which will contain an Olympic-sized swimming pool, a competition gymnasium, a health club, and other facilities.
The University last year selected internationally acclaimed architect Rafael Viñoly to design the new Graduate School of Business building, to be located on 58th Street directly across from the Robie House. The schematic design for this project is almost complete and we expect to break ground during the 2001–02 academic year.
The schematic design of the 400,000 square foot BSD/PSD Interdivisional Research Building is now well underway and will be formally reviewed by the Board of Trustees later this year. This state-of-the-art facility, designed to integrate the physical and biological sciences, will contain laboratories for the James Franck Institute, the Howard Hughes Institute, the chemistry department, the Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, the department of biochemistry and molecular biology, and a range of other research-related activities.
Advanced planning is underway for a new University of Chicago Children’s Hospital, which will be devoted primarily to neonatal and pediatric intensive care. Groundbreaking is planned for mid-2001.

For updates on these projects, see the “campus plan and construction quick link” at www.uchicago.edu.

South of the Midway Study:

Seventy-five years ago, in a report to the Board of Trustees, President Burton noted that “the University is fortunate in possessing, on the south side of the Midway, land which is still unoccupied,” and that “perhaps nowhere in America is a physical situation so favorable to the best possible development of a university.” Fulfilling Burton’s vision (although not precisely in the way he imagined—the Depression intervened), a great deal of University and University-related activity now takes place on “the south side of the Midway” – including the Law School, the Harris School, SSA, the Committee on Visual Arts (“Midway Studios”), NORC, the Burton-Judson residence hall, the New Graduate residence hall, the Center for School Improvement, the Center for Research Libraries, Chapin Hall, and of course, later this year, the University of Chicago Press.

With the substantial City and Park District commitments to enhance the Midway Plaisance, the dramatic progress of the Woodlawn community, and the ever-increasing need for space, we now have a unique opportunity to develop still further this part of our campus. To that end, in 1999–2000 the University convened a study group, which included both faculty and administrators, to develop recommendations to guide the future development of the south side of the Midway as a site for academic programs, residential facilities, administrative functions, student activities and community amenities.

The study group recommended a series of planning principles that are designed to encourage interaction among activities on the south campus; promote the development of commerce and social amenities, such as coffee shops, cafes, a fitness center and other shared student service and meeting spaces; and facilitate north-south pedestrian access both across the Midway and to the Woodlawn community. To review the entire South of the Midway Study, see www.uchicago.edu.

New Initiatives for 2000–2001

Each year, the University focuses attention on a particular set of initiatives in order to address issues that reach beyond the individual academic units. In recent years, these initiatives have ranged from the support of new interdisciplinary programs in such areas as biopsychology, human rights, biophysical dynamics and race, politics and culture; new University-wide policies on such matters as intellectual property and academic fraud; the identification and support of new strategies to enhance the quality of student life, improve College admissions, strengthen graduate education and increase faculty and student diversity; and the campus master plan.

We plan a variety of new initiatives for 2000–01, including enhancing our capacities in educational technology, strengthening the collaborative relationship between the University and Argonne National Laboratory, and conducting a 10-year review of our policy on sexual harassment. I would like, in particular, to set forth three of our 2000–01 initiatives for your comment and advice:

Computation

Computation is increasingly essential to the future of research and education in the modern researchuniversity. Not only is the internal development of the field of computer science in a state of rapid evolution, but we also are witnessing the emergence of new and often profound connections between computation and other disciplines, including the biological and physical sciences, the social sciences, public policy, law, social service and the humanities.

Although the University has been relatively slow to develop this field, it is time now to reconsider this approach. Within the past few years, we have taken some initial steps. Laying the groundwork for future directions, the Physical Sciences Division has made several key appointments in the department of computer science, and the University and Argonne National Laboratory have jointly established the Computation Institute, which is designed to foster large-scale multidisciplinary projects in which computation plays a significant intellectual role. (An example of this type of project is “Flash,” a large multiyear research effort involving astrophysicists, physicists, computer scientists, and mathematicians at the University and Argonne, the goal of which is to produce a scientifically-based computer simulation of combustion on the surface of a star.)

Our efforts to date mark only the beginning of what is required. In order to define our next steps, I have asked Bob Zimmer, Deputy Provost for Research, to chair a University-wide committee, including representatives from the biological sciences, the physical sciences, the social sciences, the humanities, the professional schools and Argonne National Laboratory, to consider how we can best attain greater strength in this field over the next decade, with special attention to the opportunities for interdisciplinary research and education.

International Programs

The University has a long and distinguished history in international research and education. In recent years, we have built upon this strength. To cite just a few recent developments:

Our student body is increasingly international. Over the past decade, the number of foreign students enrolled at the University has increased by 36% to almost 1,500. Foreign students now constitute almost 15% of our total student body, and foreign student enrollment now exceeds 20% in the Physical Sciences Division, the Humanities Division, the Social Sciences Division and the GSB
In the last several years, the College has developed core Civilizations Studies-abroad programs in Athens, Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Tours, Rome and Vienna, with new programs planned for Cape Town in 2000–01 and Bombay in 2001–02. Moreover, the number of College students receiving FLAG summer grants (“foreign language acquisition grants”) has tripled from 22 in 1998 to 65 in 2000, with students studying this summer in 23 different nations, including China, Egypt, India, Morocco, Peru, Tanzania and Turkey. And under the leadership of the Center for International Studies, the College has recently added a new undergraduate concentration in international studies
In 1999–2000, the University won more Fulbright-Hayes doctoral dissertation research abroad fellowships than any other university in the nation
In 1997, the University established a new Program in Human Rights that has engaged faculty and students from across the University. In only three years, this program has developed a series of core courses for both graduate and undergraduate students, created a robust internship program that enables students from all parts of the University to pursue three-month summer internships, supported research programs on a broad range of human rights issues, and initiated the Scholars at Risk Network, which is designed to assist scholars throughout the world who face severe deprivations of academic freedom
The College, the Social Sciences Division, the Humanities Division and the Provost’s Office are currently working together to secure a location for a new University of Chicago Center in Paris, which will anchor the College’s Civilization Studies program, provide space for additional undergraduate and graduate instructional programs, serve as a base for faculty and graduate student research activities, and offer a venue in Paris for alumni activities, conferences and workshops
In 1999–2000, the U.S. Department of Education awarded a record $4.9 million in research and fellowship grants to the University’s five area studies centers (East Asia, Latin America, South Asia, Middle East and Eastern Europe). This is the first time that all five area studies centers have received such awards in the same funding cycle
In April 2000, the government of France announced a $1 million “centre d’excellence” award to the University’s Chicago Group on Modern France to create the France-Chicago Center, an innovative, interdisciplinary joint venture in cultural and scientific cooperation between France and the University of Chicago.

In light of the increasing importance of these and other international programs, and as recommended by the Committee on the Future of International House, President Randel and I will appoint a University-wide faculty committee in 2000–01 to consider “the international mission of the University” in the 21st century. This committee will consider the various facets of international programs, including our interactions with foreign institutions; our research efforts in the field of international studies; the impact of globalization and international studies on our educational goals, methods and curricula; the experience of foreign students at the University; the experience of our students when they study abroad; and how our institutional structure might best foster future developments in this field.

Advancing the Arts

In the same 1925 report in which he anticipated the developments south of the Midway, President Burton also observed that “the time is near” when the University should give “fuller and richer expression” to “the fine arts of music and painting, of sculpture and architecture” and provide “our students” and “our community” with a more “rounded-out” and “symmetrical conception of life.”

In the 75 years since that report, the University has made some progress along these lines, as evidenced by the establishment of such institutions as the Court Theatre, the Smart Museum and the University of Chicago Presents. With the success of these activities, and the recent expansion of student interest in the arts, this is an appropriate time for us to take a fresh look at this issue.

The student performing arts at the University are literally bursting with activity. More than 75 groups-involving more than 2,000 students, from every unit and level of the University-currently engage in dance, music, singing, theater and filmmaking. The department of music supports 11 music ensembles, which presented more than 90 concerts last year; there are nine a cappella groups on campus; University Theater last year presented more than 30 productions; and students have created a vibrant filmmaking community that features student film festivals and the oldest continuous student film society in the nation. Moreover, changes in the College curriculum, which have provided students with greater flexibility to pursue electives, have led to a dramatic increase in the demand for curricular as well as extracurricular offerings in such fields as music, filmmaking, painting, sculpture and theater.

All of this activity-from the Oriental Institute to University Theater to the Renaissance Society to Doc Films to the University Symphony Orchestra to the Motet Choir to Visual Arts 101-gives “fuller and richer expression” to the cultural life of both the University and the Hyde Park community. But this explosion of activity has strained our facilities to the breaking point. To maintain and support these activities in the future, we need more practice rooms, more art studios, more exhibition spaces and more venues for the performing arts.

To assess these needs, the University will initiate a comprehensive study, involving faculty, administrators and students, to consider how we can best support the arts in the future. This study will consider such long-term issues as how we identify and prioritize competing programmatic needs, how we address the constraints of available space and the opportunities for campus planning, and how we define the appropriate role of “advancing the arts” in the University’s forthcoming Capital Campaign.

Conclusion

1999–2000 was a year of important passages. It saw the passing of Edward Levi, perhaps the quintessential University of Chicago figure. As a graduate of the Lab Schools, the College and the Law School, a professor and then dean of the Law School, and then provost and president of the University, Edward devoted his life to the University of Chicago, and we are much the better for his efforts. As Professor Bernard Meltzer observed about Edward:

"What was it that made Edward so revered and effective? What was it that enabled him to draw out the best from his colleagues and students alike? It was not merely his intellectual range, broad as it was; nor his brilliance nor his wit, sparkling as they were; nor his enlivening irreverence and impishness, though all of these counted. Rather, it was that he marshalled all of these strengths in an unsparing search for excellence, not just for himself, but also for others and for the institutions that they jointly inhabited. And so, others did reach to meet his standards, drawn by his integrity and his almost instinctive and deeply reasoned faith in the value of…the University that nurtured it."

In 1999–2000, Hanna Gray retired from the faculty and assumed emerita status. Hanna served as President of the University for 15 years, during which she articulated and reaffirmed by word and by deed the core values of the University of Chicago with unparalleled eloquence and commitment. Among her many contributions as President were the establishment of the Workshops in Advanced Studies, the creation of the Science Quadrangle, the founding of the Irving B. Harris School of Public Policy Studies, a major expansion in College enrollment, and the initiation of the Century Fellowship program to enhance graduate education. In 1996, after returning to the faculty, Hanna received the University’s Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.

In 1999–2000, Hugo Sonnenschein completed his service as President. Hugo leaves the University in an extraordinarily strong position. He set new standards for fundraising, strengthened University finances, supported the creation of important new interdisciplinary programs, undertook a comprehensive campus master planning process (only the third such process in the history of the University), initiated more than half-a-billion dollars of much-needed building projects, substantially increased faculty salaries, worked closely with the City and local community leaders to enhance Hyde Park and the surrounding neighborhoods, dramatically improved the College-especially College admissions, and significantly enriched the overall quality of student life. His efforts will serve the University well for many decades to come.

And, of course, we now welcome Don Randel as the 12th President of the University of Chicago. Don will have the opportunity to build on the achievements of William Rainey Harper, Robert Maynard Hutchins, Edward Levi, Hanna Gray, Hugo Sonnenschein and the other individuals who have had the privilege to lead this remarkable institution. As we begin a new year and a new era, I know you all join me in wishing Don well as he embraces this most challenging and most rewarding responsibility.

With warm best wishes for a productive and satisfying academic year.

Geoffrey R. Stone
Harry Kalven, Jr., Distinguished Service Professor in the Law School and the College, and Provost of the University

The University of Chicago

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