Glimpses

Summer/18

Former White House chef Sam Kass, LAB’98, AB’04, is serving up new recipes and improvements to food policy. Plus: Kass’s recipe for brussels sprouts Caesar salad.

Spring/18

Questions for geologist Susan Kidwell on her work in the emerging discipline of conservation paleobiology, teaching students out in the field, and what artists and scientists share.

Winter/18

Sara Paretsky, AM’69, MBA’77, PhD’77, on being the mystery genre’s “aging diva” and more.

Fall/17

Constitutional scholar Sonja R. West, JD’98, on press freedom and its future. 

Summer/17

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Spring/17

How Lucy Kaplansky, LAB’78, made a career of folk music.

Winter/17

Pioneering pathologist Nancy Warner, SB’44, MD’49, is helping other women scholars follow in her path.

Spring/16

Poet and novelist Ana Castillo, AM'79, on feminism, writing, and a momentous education.

July–Aug/15

Sociologist Howard S. Becker, PhB’46, AM’49, PhD’51, talks about his career studying deviance.

Mar–Apr/15

Leading cosmologist Wendy Freedman trains a telescopic lens on the biggest questions in the universe.

Jan–Feb/15

Chicago Booth clinical professor of entrepreneurship Waverly Deutsch brings theatrical and gaming influences to her teaching.

Nov–Dec/14

Novelist Matthew Thomas, AB’97, talks about learning to hear the story that wants to be told.