Reclamation project

Karen Reimer, MFA’98, embroiders ordinary items to add rich new meaning to the familiar.

Microfinance

Microfinance was supposed to lead the poor out of poverty. Yet after a rash of borrower suicides in one Indian state, experts and governments question the industry’s success.

Craft and cooperation

In his latest book, sociologist Richard Sennett, AB’64, explores the social craft of cooperation.

Champagne toasts

For five decades, Stuart Rice and his doctoral students have had great chemistry.

Why we choke

Psychologist Sian Beilock studies what makes people choke under pressure and offers techniques to prevent those mental meltdowns.

Good deed repaid

In 1980s Baltimore, a family recalls an act of kindness—and finds a way to repay it.

Career ufologist

For 41 years Stanton Friedman, SB’55, SM’56, has traveled the world with a simple message: UFOs are real.

DNA nanotechnology

Nadrian Seeman, SB’66, uses DNA not to study biology but as a building block for nano-tiny structures.

Mansueto Library

... Reg Egg, Igloo: As quickly as students have dreamed up pet names for Mansueto, they’ve adopted the futuristic library as their own.

Bright passage

For one alumna, Mansueto’s opening recalls the change in Russian libraries since the Glasnost days.

1970s West Side photos

Alzheimer’s has erased the stories behind Lou Fourcher’s (PhD’71) images, but his photographs of a demolished West Side neighborhood have stirred memories in former residents.