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Features

Can’t Touch This

50 years, 127 titles, 19 championship sports—this is the streak.

By Sam Scott

How Elephants Establish Who Is in Charge
Features

How Elephants Establish Who Is in Charge

by Melinda Sacks

Pioneer Spacewalker
Farewells

Pioneer Spacewalker

Bruce McCandless II, MS ’65

by Christine Foster

Microbe Man
Farewells

Microbe Man

Stanley Falkow

by Vicky Elliott

Lifelong Volunteer
Farewells

Lifelong Volunteer

Jean Coblentz, ’47

by Diana Aguilera

Trustee Extraordinaire
Farewells

Trustee Extraordinaire

John Freidenrich, ’59, LLB ’63

by Leslie Berlin

Obituaries - July 2018
Farewells

Obituaries - July 2018

Movie Maven with a Mission
Farewells

Movie Maven with a Mission

Marsha Robertson, ’76

by Jacob Young

At Last Count: 15
Campus

At Last Count: 15

Yurts Become Pop-Up Science Labs
Campus

Yurts Become Pop-Up Science Labs

Camel hair tents adopted by research scientists.

by Melinda Sacks

Letters to the Editor
Departments

Letters to the Editor