Dream deferred

Joshua Hoyt, AM’95, leads the fight for immigrants' rights in Illinois.

Away with words

Ben Zimmer, AM’98, took over William Safire's On Language column before it was pulled earlier this year. Now where's a word nerd to turn?

Points of interest

Eric Fischer’s digital maps turn geographic data into works of art.

Legacy

Jeannette Piccard, SM’19 (1895–1981), a “pioneer of the skies”

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How to institute change

How to institute change

Social scientists establish the Urban Network to share lessons and information that strengthen antipoverty programs.

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Whistle blower

Whistle blower

Examining sports through a Freakonomics lens, economist Tobias J. Moskowitz makes some controversial calls.

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Faith in farming

Faith in farming

Fred Kirschenmann, AM’62, PhD’64, wants to pass on his self-taught sustainable-agriculture lessons to younger generations.

Arts & Sciences »

Lite of the Mind

By a hare’s breadth

Lee Pruett’s (AB’99) depiction of the 1996 theft of former University President Hanna Gray’s portrait from Hutchinson Commons gave the Magazine’s Peeps Diorama Contest judges the biggest sugar rush.

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