12 surprising facts about campus spaces
Did you know there’s a wash tub hanging from the ceiling at Kodak Hall? Or that Frank Sinatra sang here...
Meet the Young Alumni Council
The mission of the Young Alumni Council is to foster and sustain relationships with College graduates of the last decade—more...
Meet the cochairs: Simon Alumni Board
The Simon Alumni Board, a group of 30 business leaders, meets formally, hosts events, and shares advice with those who...
Four years on campus, a lifetime of friendship
For 62 years, about a dozen “City Girls” have been getting together just about every month. At first, they met...
U of R, U of R, ’68!
While many of the historic events and cultural moments of 1968 continue to resonate in American social and political life,...
The staggering cost of being black in America
The premise isn’t new: engineer and business executive Shawn Rochester ’97, in a recent book, The Black Tax: The Cost...
Wise words on weight loss
Weight loss tips aren’t hard to find. But here are a few from the president of the Obesity Medicine Association....
Making physics less alpha
As a physics student in the 1970s, Barbara Whitten ’77 (PhD) often found herself one of the only women—if not...
Requiem for a civic monument
Chicago public housing and its troubles have been a journalistic focal point for decades, generating a slew of news coverage,...
Show Us Your Town: Boston
For all its storied history—the Freedom Trail, Bunker Hill, Walden Pond—Boston feels familiar and friendly, says Stephen Fantone ’79 (PhD),...