Alumni Weekend

It was Alumni Weekend at the University of Chicago. Pretty low key since graduate students don't tend to congregate at this event, but there were a couple of highlights. The alumni medal went to James Dewey Watson, PhB’46, SB’47. Dewey was awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his co-discovery of the structure of DNA. His address at the Alumni Convocation was off the cuff, a little weird, and wildly entertaining. The Uncommon Core session moderated by NPR commentator Ray Suarez, AM’93, on Saturday afternoon was great. There was also a great session with Jim Heckman, who won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2000, and Bob Lucas, AB’59, PhD’64, who won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1995, reflecting on the work of Milton Friedman, AM’33, who won the Economics Prize in 1976.

Get the Nobel Prize winner theme? Pretty amazing.