Recent faculty and alumni obituaries.

Spring quarter, like any other, offered an encyclopedia of public talks on campus, illuminating topics art historical, zoological, and most everything in between. At 11 of those talks, the Magazine staff were there. Here’s what we learned.

Dean of the College John W. Boyer reflects on the legacies of great professors past, “an inheritance we must renew for our successors.”

Postgraduate plans at the time of graduation, by percentage, of the Class of 2012.

Two campus protests prompt an independent investigation and new policy recommendations.

Researchers find imperfections in perfect pitch, investigate how prehistoric species emerged out of the tropics, and survey marital satisfaction among those who met online.  

Water research and resources, new life for an old magazine, connecting politics and policy, and Fermilab’s new leader.

Readers comment on a story of long-lost love, a reversal of fortune in Russia, the variety of wine sellers’ cellars, the Chicago Theological Seminary’s sacred space, student life once upon a time, Herbert Lamm’s single-minded life of the mind, and more.

Even for old-school book fetishists, the Magazine’s new app is worth texting home about.

College students celebrate their favorite mustachioed man at the first Dean Boyer Appreciation Day.