Pulitzer Prize-winning Wall Street Journal columnist Bret Stephens, AB’95, brings a UChicago intellectual spirit to the sword fight of political commentary.

Retiring University librarian Judith Nadler reflects on her prolific career.

Mathematics historian Judith Victor Grabiner, SB’60, teaches math to the liberal arts masses.

Astrophysicist Josh Frieman, PhD’89, works on the dark side, studying the night sky for insight into the accelerating expansion of the universe.

Wine writer and restaurant critic Bill St. John, AM’77, AM’80, PhD’83, talks fear of wine and the scourge of ratings.

Social critic and Victorian historian Gertrude Himmelfarb, AM’44, PhD’50, looks back on her Chicago education.

A corporate career led Beverly Ryder, MBA’74, to the board of the National Women’s Hall of Fame and back to the public schools in her hometown of Los Angeles.

New Girl Scout chief of staff Nhadine Leung, AB’90, bleeds green.

Retired Laboratory Schools teacher Vivian Gussin Paley, PhB’47, writes about the importance of play in early schooling

At a time when science was a man’s field, physicist and chemist Conwell conducted research that won her a 2010 National Medal of Science.