A special issue in Research in Social Stratification and Mobility celebrating the career of past CDE Director Robert Mare was published at in June 2023. With contributions by multiple CDE affiliates and alumni, including Christine Schwartz (“Robert Mare’s legacy: Advances in the study of assortative mating”), past CDE Director Robert Hauser (“Breaking barriers: Robert Denis Mare and research on social stratification”), CDE alumni Jennie Brand and Yu Xie (“The legacy of Robert D. Mare“) and Sam Lucas (“Mare’s Model of Education Transitions: Reflections on a Powerful Continuing Resource for Understanding”), this is a key issue to add to your reading list!