Campus Resources at the University of Chicago

• Becoming Centered: Ways to find your center through Spiritual Life.

• Better Together: Program that brings graduate and professional students come together once a week for four weeks for dinner, thoughtful discussion, and creative ways to connect their peers and strengthen their emotional wellbeing.

• Biosciences GRIT: Goal is enhancing diversity and inclusion across BSD graduate programs. To achieve this goal, the team focuses on three central components: recruitment, retention, and sustainability.

• Breathing Room: Resources offered to students through Spiritual Life.

• Butterfly Support Group: A confidential space for students who would like to gain support and insight on dealing with the stressors surrounding immigration policy and changes that may impact them or their families.

• Daily Prompts: Prompts offered through Spiritual Life to encourage self-reflection. You may also share responses with the community if you choose.

• Grief Resources: Many feelings that can accompany the experiences of grief and loss, which can be triggered by a number of experiences or incidents. Visit Spiritual Life for resources available.

• Law School Bridges Program: A program that uses creative writing to unpack and share students’ personal stories examining how one’s background shapes the Law School experience. 

• Leaders of Color: Aims to increase the participation of minority students in leadership opportunities across the UChicago campus. 

• Let’s Talk: Provides easy access to informal and confidential sessions with therapists from UChicago Student Wellness. 

• Mental Health First Aid: Training designed to give people the skills to help someone who may be experiencing a mental health problem or crisis. The course uses role-playing and simulations to demonstrate how to recognize and respond to the warning signs and symptoms of a mental illness or emotional concerns.

• Mental Health Resources: Many people may experience feelings of stress, anxiety, isolation, and fear. Here are some campus and community resources to assist.

• Mindfulness Meditation: Courses, weekly sessions and retreats are open to all UChicago community members and include instruction and practice of mindfulness meditation and other mind/body techniques to help reduce stress.

• Pet Love: Therapy dogs are brought to campus for Pet Love once per quarter, offering students an opportunity to socialize, lower anxiety, reduce loneliness, and have a healthy outlet for positive touch.

• Restorative Yoga: Using techniques of restorative movement and mindful breathing, this accessible and approachable Restorative Yoga class helps ease tension and melt your worries away.

• Sunny Spots: Find a list of ways you can increase your serotonin levels on campus. This Sunny Spots Map shows campus “sunny spots” to brighten your day!

• Take 10 Initiative: Seeks to create a space for relaxation and social interaction through pop-up events relating to creativity, physical activity, gratitude, and engaging with others. 

• Therapy: UChicago Student Wellness provides short-term individual and couples therapy for students to discuss and address personal and relationship concerns related to mental health and well-being.

• Therapy Groups: UChicago Student Wellness therapy groups create a welcoming, nonjudgmental environment where students can connect to other students around shared struggles or current life conditions.

• Wellness Coaching: A strengths-based approach to holistic wellness and mental health promotion. Wellness Coaching provides support for students navigating transitions and overcoming challenges.

• Women in Public Service Program: Aims to empower and prepare women and nonbinary identifying students for careers in public service and related fields (including but not limited to the nonprofit, journalism, and law sectors) while building a strong peer network along the way.

Bias Education & Support Team (BEST): Students affected by bias can seek emotional and administrative support through BEST. BEST members will ensure that reported bias incidents are properly recorded so that they may assess the campus climate on an ongoing basis and provide follow-up training and educational opportunities.

Center for College Student Success: Empowers First-Generation, Lower-Income, and Immigrant students in the College, providing resources and tools that promote student success, and programming and community events that build positive self-identity and a sense of belonging.

LGBTQ Student Life: Serves LGBTQ students, questioning students, and allies in the College and graduate and professional schools in order to create an inclusive and safe community by providing educational opportunities, building community, and serving as a resource for all students in the University.

Office of Multicultural Student Affairs: Creates intentionally diverse and inclusive communities, serving as a bridge builder by engaging students and members of the University community of all backgrounds to ensure personal, academic, and professional growth and success.

Spiritual Life: Serves as a destination for all things spiritual and religious at the University of Chicago. They address the complexities of religious encounter in the twenty-first century and provide a space for members of the University community to ask big and small questions about meaning and purpose.

Student Support Services: Aims to facilitate the personal, professional, and social success of first-generation, lower-income, undocumented, and immigrant students by leading the University of Chicago community in initiatives that enhance self-efficacy, resiliency, and a sense of belonging.

UChicago HELP: UChicago HELP is a collaborative program within Campus and Student Life made up of a robust set of systems and practices, including some resources that are available 24/7, that support and care for students, including the Dean-on-Call, Sexual Assault Dean-on-Call and Bias Education and Support Team (BEST).

UChicago Student Wellness: Provides coordinated and comprehensive medical care, counseling, psychiatry, and health promotion services targeted at building and maintaining overall wellbeing. 

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UChicago Accessibility: The University works collaboratively to provide accommodations appropriate to need and circumstance for students, faculty, staff, and visitors.

A Cheat Sheet for Where to Eat in Hyde Park: List of restaurants in Hyde Park recommended by UChicago students.

Food Security Resources: A list of resources available to support food security among students. 

Grocery Store Transportation Guide: This resource lists free transportation options to local grocery stores, including the names of addresses of each store. 

Jewel-Osco: Located at 6014 S Cottage Grove, Chicago, IL, for a convenient and friendly grocery experience.

Hyde Park Produce: Hyde Park’s favorite family-owned and operated produce and grocery store.

Whole Foods Market: A grocery store that seeks out the finest natural and organic foods available, maintains the strictest quality standards in the industry, and has a commitment to sustainable agriculture.

Open Produce: Independent East Hyde Park grocery serving fresh produce, dry goods, international foods, beer and wine.

Trader Joe’s: Describes itself as “your neighborhood grocery store”. Products include gourmet foods, organic foods, vegetarian foods, unusual frozen foods, imported foods, domestic and imported wine and beer (where local law permits), and “alternative” food items.

Target Grocery: Small grocery section in a larger retail store that offers an edited food assortment, including perishables, dry grocery, dairy and frozen items.

UChicago Dining: Committed to providing healthy, high-quality meal options to students whether they are living on-campus or off-campus.

Where to Eat in Hyde Park: The spots you should be eating at when you’re in the neighborhood according to The Infatuation.

UChicago Arts Pass: Provides UChicago students with free general admission to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago,as well as access to special talks and lectures throughout the year.

UChicagoGRAD Event Calendar: Calendar of upcoming workshops, info sessions, conferences, socials and more.

Hyde Park Neighborhood Attractions: Hyde Park is home to the world-famous Museum of Science and Industry and the Frank Lloyd Wright Robie House, as well as many ethnic restaurants, family parks, bookstores, coffee shops, and more.

Downtown Hyde Park: Find out about what is going on in Hyde Park, from events to transportation options.

Chicago Park District: Owns more than 8,800 acres of green space, making it the largest municipal park manager in the nation. From canoeing to soccer fields to arts and crafts, there is never a shortage of activities to participate in Chicago’s parks.

Things to do in Chicago: Accessing opportunities that only a major cosmopolitan city can offer, UChicago students find that there’s always a big selection of things to do.

Department of Transportation: The University of Chicago provides many services to help you travel around campus and the greater Hyde Park area, including five shuttle routes weekdays from 5 a.m. to 9 p.m. and four night time routes starting at 5 p.m., seven days a week. The University also has an agreement with the Chicago Transit Authority to provide service on four CTA routes serving campus.

Environmental Research Group: An undergraduate science and policy think tank devoted to interfacing science and social good to create sustainable change in Chicago through applicable, data-driven modeling. Science can oftentimes be void of application to the real world.

Lactation Space Map: A map showing the spaces on campus for lactation.

Phoenix Sustainability Initiative: Seeks to develop and implement environmentally responsible practices at the University and in the wider Chicago community.

Sunny Spots: Find a list of ways you can increase your serotonin levels on campus. This Sunny Spots Map shows campus “sunny spots” to brighten your day!

UChicago Civic Engagement: An institution-wide commitment that draws upon our strength as an economic anchor and on the power of education, research, and innovation to create real, lasting impact and opportunity, in Chicago and beyond.

University Community Service Center (UCSC): A student’s home for finding ways to get involved in the community. UCSC staff run programs and events to help students get to know Chicago and how to partner with our neighbors.

UChicago Safe App: UChicago Safe is a free app to quickly access safety information by the tap of an icon.  The University of Chicago’s Department of Safety & Security and AppArmor have developed this app to provide information for emergencies and links to safety resources.  The app is easy to download and free.

UChicago Sustainability: Collaborates with campus and community partners to enhance a culture of sustainability using data-driven, yet relationship-based approach that connects students, faculty, and staff into a cohesive University-Wide network.

Grad Housing Resources: This site provides the information you need to make an informed decision about housing. The Resource Guide can be helpful if you are planning a move to Chicago; use these guidelines to determine when to begin your search.

Housing & Residence Life: Helps develop and support inclusive communities that engage residents in exceptional living experiences within secure and well-maintained environments that foster a sense of belonging and support the academic initiatives of the University.