Chicago empathy researchers test how far rats will go to rescue a cage mate in distress.

A centuries-old text on military science tells stories beyond tactics and strategy.

A composer and an astrophysicist embrace feeling lost in space.

As émigré artist Danh Vo sends Liberty around the globe, Chicago embraces its share.

Readers weigh in on presidential power, intellectual influences, the moral dimension of free-market capitalism, Patsy Mink’s legacy, and more.

Hyde Park’s greenest denizens and the Magazine’s greenest editors.

With a historian’s attention to the founding ideals of the College, Dean John W. Boyer implements an ambitious vision for the decades to come.

Peter Selz, AM’49, PhD’54, looks back on a life in modern art through the works that most inspired him.

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.

An Oriental Institute Museum exhibit traces the ubiquity of birds in ancient Egyptian culture to geographical accident, avian behavior, and human fascination.

The winners of the Magazine’s joke contest.