An excerpt from We Made Uranium! And Other True Stories from the University of Chicago’s Extraordinary Scavenger Hunt

A short story by Ted Cohen, AB’62.

Finding our way in the age of GPS doesn’t have to mean sacrificing serendipity.

President Beadle and the secret campaign to beautify the campus.

Or, who’s that barefoot man on the roof of the president’s house?

How a mysterious warning helped a literature professor finish his mother’s novel.

An ugly rug, a stolen Tropical Hut planter, and why the bust of Silas J. Cobb is displayed in such an odd location.

Excerpt from Greetings from Utopia Park: Surviving a Transcendent Childhood by Claire Hoffman, AMʼ05.

Ethan Michaeli, AB’89, author of The Defender, explains how he came to be working there.

An excerpt from Sian Beilock’s book How the Body Knows Its Mind yields surprising advice on the best way to solve problems.

Excerpt from A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life by Allyson Hobbs, AM’02, PhD’09.

Notes on an intellectual and musical journey.