At a memorial service for Bernard Sahlins, friends and family recalled the Second City cofounder’s passion for his work, which in recent years included directing staged readings of verse plays for the Poetry Foundation.

As daylight dwindles, cut out paper-bag luminarias inspired by windows on campus to light your way home this winter.

After Wendy Klein, AB’75, gathered the nerve to show President Edward H. Levi the portraits she had sketched of him, they were framed for the future attorney general.

Recent faculty, staff, board, and alumni obituaries.

Highlights from the latest alumni news columns. Log into the Alumni & Friends Web Community using your CNetID and password to browse all alumni news by class year.

Chris McNickle trains a historian’s eye on urban politics past and the future of global markets.

Jay Berwanger’s legacy endures, thanks in part to an award nobody had heard of when he won it.

The distancing effect of superstition, new depths in earthquake research, the mechanism that winds hamsters’ biological clocks, and trustworthy insight into brain processes.

Caltech taps Rosenbaum; Levi’s legacy is set in stone; the University gives start-ups a jump start; and major gifts fund initiatives in law, business, education, and medicine.

Neurobiologist Clifton Ragsdale’s work advances the knowledge of understudied cephalopods.

A traveling exhibition explores California art’s experimental state of mind.

The Neubauer Collegium sets sail with two talks and a visit by artist William Kentridge.