How literary scholar David Shields, AM’75, PhD’82, came to rediscover dozens of forgotten crops and preserve Southern culinary heritage.

A poem. 

Highlights from the daylong celebration of arts and letters at UChicago.

A new minor bridges the growing gap between researchers and the public.

Melanie Deal’s (AM’78) mixed-media works blend humor and nostalgia.

Samples from a Smart Salon conversation with artist Robert Earl Paige.

Bay Area alumni take in a century of filmmaking in one morning.

Poet and humanities lecturer Richie Hofmann explains why that’s the wrong question.

Jared Janas, AB’94, has become a celebrated hair, makeup, and wig designer on Broadway. His UChicago major? Math.

Elisabeth Hogeman, MFA’16, puts her spin on the still-life tradition with physical and digital collages.

Father Peter Funk, AB’92, on life in a Benedictine monastery.

Trent Davis, AB’23, of the Brain Bridge Lab stages an art show for science.