Deep Ties | The University of Chicago Magazine

A century-old pas de deux culminated in 2013, when the University of Chicago and the Marine Biological Laboratory entered into a formal affiliation. The histories of UChicago and the Woods Hole, Massachusetts, nonprofit center for biology, biodiversity, and environmental research had long been intertwined.

“The two institutions were, in a sense, almost cofounded,” says surgery professor Karl Matlin, who cocuratedShared Past, Shared Future, a recent exhibition at the John Crerar Library that illuminated UChicago-MBLconnections.

Investigators and faculty at the Marine Biological Laboratory in 1894.Photoby Baldwin Coolidge
Investigators and faculty at the Marine Biological Laboratory in 1894 (crop).Photoby Baldwin Coolidge

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