Headed to Alumni Weekend? This year’s edition highlights the arts, but there’s something for everyone. Here are five events that caught our eye.

Recent faculty, staff, and alumni obituaries.

Readers write in to confirm age is just a number; expand on Katherine Dunham’s (PhB’36) Hyde Park history; add thoughts about mortality and the right to aid in dying; diagnose income inequality; redress the Winter issue’s anagram inequality; and more.

Highlights from the latest alumni news columns.

A $35 million gift from two College alumni supports a new hub for urban research.

Misconduct in the financial advising industry goes unpunished; hit the snooze button on weekends to reduce diabetes risk; a rage disorder has a newly discovered physiological marker; believers in psychic phenomena are happier but less analytical than skeptics.

The Magazine lists a selection of general interest books, films, and albums by alumni. For additional alumni releases, browse the Magazine’s Goodreads bookshelf.

The word that comes to one Odyssey scholar’s mind: freedom.

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

Jacqueline Edelberg, AB’89, AM’91, PhD’96, on transitioning from super volunteer to start-up newbie.

Data-driven research at the global institute will spur new insights into violent conflict and inform public policy.