On the eve of her retirement, Susannah Smith reflects on a final year well spent as the acting director of the Institute for Advanced Study. She shares a liturgy of collective accomplishments and looks ahead at the IAS's ambitious plans for the future.

IAS Programming Manager Carolina Maranon-Cobos reflects on the 2024-25 (In)Justice Series on Just Policing: how we have brought together scholars, artists, activists, and community leaders to ask hard questions about what justice really means—and what it might look like today, in the mess of the world we’re living in.

Seven graduate students from the University of Minnesota have been selected to participate in the Summer 2025 MnDRIVE Human in the Data Fellowship. The unique fellowship supports interdisciplinary engagement, collaboration, mentorship, and research that does not fit within standard graduate programs.