In 1975 Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, AB’60, PhD’65, came up with the notion of autotelic experience—better known as flow. Forty-five years later, we’re still talking about it.

Fred Niell, AB’99, helped build a nuclear reactor in a dorm room. Did he ever make anything else?

A selection of books, films, and recordings by UChicago alumni.

A selection of UChicago alumni whose names are in the news.

The work of Ron McAdow, AB’71, who found levity in legumes, had a recent screening at the Museum of Modern Art.

Untold stories from a new book about a beloved UChicago tradition.

A Hutchins-era graduate exercises her way into the record books.

Over 50 years, Patric McCoy, AB’69, has collected 1,300 pieces of art and made them into a piece all his own.

For activist Heather Booth, AB’67, AM’70, the personal has been the political for more than 50 years.

The facialist to the stars gives a thumbs-up to K-beauty and DIY masks

Start by eating healthy and wearing sunscreen, says Hollywood’s go-to aesthetician Joanna Vargas, AB’93.

Matinee idol and Oscar nominee Sessue Hayakawa is widely remembered as a UChicago alumnus. But was he? We tried to separate fact and myth in the storied actor’s biography.