The University’s botanic garden celebrates its 20th anniversary.

President Beadle and the secret campaign to beautify the campus.

Revisiting days gone by in the pages of the Magazine.

From our print archive: In a whirlwind campus visit in February 1994, novelist Kurt Vonnegut, AM’71, wowed a new generation of fans.

Or, who’s that barefoot man on the roof of the president’s house?

An ugly rug, a stolen Tropical Hut planter, and why the bust of Silas J. Cobb is displayed in such an odd location.

Socialists squeak by Communists! Impostor students! And more from the straw poll of 1936.

That’s what sculptor Virginio Ferrari would say, anyway.

The Division of the Physical Sciences celebrates UChicago’s 125th anniversary.

A new documentary on philanthropist Julius Rosenwald leaves UChicago on the cutting room floor.

PSD facilities keep up with an ever-progressing scientific landscape.

His views on Thucydides, Hutchins, Sturm und Drang, and more.