Four years of tuition, room, board, and fees: $155,876 Commencement day: Priceless

Tradition requires that graduates wear caps and gowns. But concealed beneath the uniform are more than 2,000 extraordinary young men & women. Here are portraits of a random few.

W. Warren Harper was the father of a poet and the grandfather of a novelist. No wonder that, after he died, they found a way to keep him alive.

Scientists are creating games usingvirtual boxers, medieval trolls, and robotic poodles that observe howyou think. What they learn may one day be used to reshape your everydaychoices.

Craig Robinson leaves Northwestern to become head coach of men’s basketball.

Class notes for alums who haven’t cured cancer or acted on Broadway.

Panhandlers in Rwanda teach a recent grad what school costs.

How do you lose a house? More interesting is how you find one.

A new study finds therapy with medication may be the key to sobriety

An environmental journalist writes a global warming adventure tale for kids.

Developer Steve Glenn ’87 is building prefab houses that he says will make money and still be good for the planet.

Cinematographer Peter Zuccarini shoots whales, sharks, and, yes— Johnny Depp