True grit

In a heated showdown with Western cattlemen, Idaho environmentalist Jon Marvel, AB’72, tries to outlaw livestock grazing on public lands.

Eye robot

Chicago geophysical scientist Patrick McGuire develops artificial-intelligence technology to turn astronauts into “cyborg astrobiologists.”

A nurse's shift

A former academic finds personal fulfillment—and a different set of intellectual problems—amid health-care shortfalls and patients who face matters of life and death.

A novel approach

Presumed dead by the Alumni Association, an alumnus shares some life benchmarks, told through four writers’ lenses.

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Eastward bound

Eastward bound

The University establishes a permanent center in China to expand its intellectual collaborations.

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Our inner monkey

Biologist Dario Maestripieri studies the differences that separate man from man, monkey from monkey.

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Life after poverty

Psychotherapist Jinnie English helps formerly poor executives come to terms with their past.

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Time warp

As the Law School plans its next time capsule, we consider students’ possessions then, now, and 50 years into the future.

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