The position of the University of Chicago in physics hasn't declined, and it achieved new heights in medicine recently when the country's first live liver transplant (an organ donated by a living person, often to a relative) was performed at the University of Chicago Medical Center last November.
芝大在物理學的地位至今仍未褪色，而最近在醫學上又展現新的風采﹘﹘全美第一次活體肝臟移植（由活人捐贈器官，通常是給自己的親屬）的病例，就是在去年十一月在芝大醫院完成的。