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This exhibition demonstrates the lengths Scavvies will go to in search of fun as part of a beloved UChicago tradition. On ...

To support students studying for finals, Regenstein’s 1st Floor Reading Room will remain open to current students, faculty, ...

The Library is pleased to announce the opening of the Center for Digital Scholarship (CDS) at Regenstein Library. The CDS is ...

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The COVID-19 pandemic upended life and routines around the globe and prompted creative work arounds. Dedicated Scavvies looked to Zoom, Dropbox, and email to facilitate virtual scavenger hunts in 2020 ...

Securing preeminent pop culture accolades, Scav held Guinness’ record for world’s largest scavenger hunt between 2011–2014. Scav earned the title by shattering Guinness’ official record, then held by ...

The list was born in the C-Shop in Hutchinson, where the founders sat around and tried to make each other laugh with outrageous ideas for list items. Items fell into eight categories: trivia, cheap ...

American gossip columnist, actress, and society hostess Elsa Maxwell (1883-1963) is credited for introducing modern scavenger hunts to partygoers in Paris in 1927 and popularized them upon her return ...

The Python language and the popular code-editor Visual Studio Code are now available on our public library computers. We have also recently added approximately 20 of the most popular extensions in use ...

Actor Misha Collins loved Scav as an undergrad. He enjoyed the whole experience – the ingenuity, the teamwork, the confidence building, and especially the subversive tone of the list. His Scav ...

SCRC curators Christine Colburn, Patti Gibbons, and Chelsea Kaufman, and all Scavvies past, present, and future offer sincere gratitude to the founders of the Scavenger Hunt: [5,000 campus legend ...