The University of Chicago Laboratory Schools

Share your career experience, advice and industry insights with other Labbies and current students. Interested in becoming a virtual Maroon Mentor? Let us know. 

The Executive Board works with the Lab Office of Alumni Relations and Development to engage, connect and strengthen Lab’s 10,000 member alumni community with a robust engagement programs, including class reunions, volunteer initiatives, local and regional networking events and alumni awards to create affinity, loyalty and support for Lab. The Board meets twice a year and includes several committees. For more information about joining the board, please contact the Office of Alumni Relations.

Launched in San Francisco in 2019,  Lab Career Treks give U-High students a unique opportunity for career exploration and to visit industry-specific employers focusing on technology and STEM entrepreneurship, life sciences, publishing, finance, entertainment and politics in New York City, Boston, Washington D.C. and Los Angeles.  Interested in being a career trek sponsor and alumni host to U-High students at your company? Let us know.

Return to campus for Lab’s annual reunion festivities in June. Reconnect with classmates and the Lab Schools community, celebrate milestone class reunion dinners and enjoy special programs and events.  More information about Lab Alumni Weekend can be found here.

Join recent Lab grads at our signature holiday event  in downtown Chicago. Want to host one in your area? We can help. Let us know.

All alumni can nominate someone for Lab’s Distinguished Alumni, Rising Star Professional Achievement, or Alumni Service awards, or propose a classmate to be profiled in LabLife magazine. Nominations for 2020 will open in fall, 2019. Awards are presented during Alumni Weekend in June. 

We created Lab’s Alumni Authors Collection to celebrate the work of our alumni—fiction, non-fiction, and scholarly writings. More than 100 of you sent in books for the collection and we now have a wonderful display in the U-High Lobby. 

If you are an author, please send us your book (or books!). 
Alumni Authors Collection
University of Chicago Laboratory Schools
1362 E 59th Street
Chicago, IL 60637

Travel back to campus, show your Maroon pride, and celebrate fellow Labbies at the annual Lab Athletics Hall of Fame induction ceremony.