Thoughts on life at Rockefeller, squirrels, and Phil the Phoenix.

From our print archive: A bull snake in 1937 enjoys campus life, “siestas under the Victrola.”

Zachary Cannon, AM’99, became attuned to the natural world all around him in Chicago’s urban landscape.

Retiring professor Michael LaBarbera’s Invertebrate Biology class concludes with a view of an “alien landscape.”

Scientists turned to nature to solve a high-tech problem.

Comparative human development’s new chair sees the field expanding in new directions.

Scientist Michael LaBarbera searches for tiny sea creatures—brachiopods—in underwater caves, to help flesh out the evolutionary record.

Surprise specimens in the lab.

Biology professor Michael LaBarbera has spent his career immersing students—and himself—in an underwater world and the unending adventure of science.