“The students, faculty, staff and visitors who return to Botany Pond will be able to marvel at new views of the changing Midwestern seasons, and see science and sustainability reflected in this ...

Botany Pond is a picturesque spot near the heart of the campus, beloved by the University of Chicago community. Each spring it reawakens with new life, including turtles, birds and fish—and a certain ...

Our beloved Botany Pond has been part of the UChicago landscape and student experience for 121 years. First opened to the public in 1903, it was the result of professor John Merle Coulter’s vision of ...

Most importantly, ducks have officially returned to the Botany Pond, and UChicago’s resident expert, professor emeritus in the Department of Ecology and Evolution Jerry Coyne, assured the Maroon that ...

CHICAGO -- The University of Chicago welcomed some new life to campus in the midst of the COVID-19 lockdown: the annual broods of ducklings born at the school's botany pond. Professor Emeritus ...