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Director Dmitry Troyanovsky ’98 teaches Brandeis students how to create art in tumultuous times.

In a recent paper, Professor of History Dan Bouk traces how one industry has used — and misused — the notion of “impairment.”

Rhode Islanders with lung diseases can now get the latest in care right at home.

A scholar explores the possible gap between what young Jewish refugees fleeing Nazism in Europe claimed to feel and their actual emotions.

English professor Ramie Targoff casts light on four overlooked female writers of the Renaissance.

Meet five practitioners of complementary medicine modalities.

Thirteen people will die today as they wait for a kidney transplant. Is it time to change how we think about living organ donation?

Two physicians call out medical wrongdoing in immigration detention centers.

Yale’s associate curator of musical instruments can’t imagine a world without music.

In courts and in clinics, doctors and lawyers combine their powers to keep people on the right side of health.

Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow brings the everyday realities of the classical world — including its toilets and sewer systems — to life.

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A sculptor practices the art and science of conservation.

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Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown university

Thirteen people will die today as they wait for a kidney transplant. Is it time to change how we think about living organ donation?

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Two physicians call out medical wrongdoing in immigration detention centers

One medical student’s inquiry results in profession-wide changes.

To this pathologist, a cadaver is more than a dead body. It’s a mystery to be solved.

In courts and in clinics doctors and lawyers combine their powers to keep people on the right side of health.

In ways old and new, visuals play a key role in how we learn, teach, and practice medicine.
A cadre of medical and legal advocates cares deeply about the health of people behind bars.

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The first 20 years of Brown’s Center for AIDS Research.

Colleagues remember Dr. Chuck Carpenter: mentor, teacher, and friend.
A one-time interim dean dedicated his career to improving how we care for older people.

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For Griffin Rodgers, research matters most when it translates to a cure.

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Malaria didn’t manage to kill Jake Kurtis. He wants it to stop killing others.

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Willoughby Britton believes in the power of mindfulness meditation to change your brain-and your life–for the better. She just wants you to be careful.

Wayne Carver is the doctor you never want to need. All his patients die, but there’s healing in helping them find justice.

Got a disaster?
Rear Admiral David Rutstein MD’83 is your go-to guy.

(Fenley Award recipient)

A family medicine doc finds community and purpose on a New Hampshire mountainside.

Watson Institute for International Affairs

BROWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

What the COVID-19 pandemic teaches us about the future of public health.

Over a decade, Dean Terrie Fox Wetle worked indefatigably to build Brown’s School of Public Health.

BROWN UNIVERSITY

Rhode Islanders with lung diseases can now get the latest in care right at home.

Meet the DEI power couple enriching the Brown campus community and diversifying our health care workforce, one student at a time.

From building a satellite to exploring immunology, virtual reality, and more, undergraduates are engaged in ambitious research.

BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY

Director Dmitry Troyanovsky ’98 teaches Brandeis students how to create art in tumultuous times.

English professor Ramie Targoff casts light on four overlooked female writers of the Renaissance.

Brandeis harbors big ambitions for the arts. This rings especially true for its composers.
In which Brandeis is revealed to be much greater than the sum of its parts.
Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow brings the everyday realities of the classical world — including its toilets and sewer systems — to life.
The Eli J. & Phyllis N. Segal Citizen Leadership Program celebrates its 10th anniversary.
Seven Siegel, Heller MBA/MPP’16, believes in the positive power of games.
10 Years of the Segal Citizen Leadership Program.

COLGATE UNIVERSITY

A scholar explores the possible gap between what young Jewish refugees fleeing Nazism in Europe claimed to feel and their actual emotions.

Yale’s associate curator of musical instruments can’t imagine a world without music.

In a recent paper, Professor of History Dan Bouk traces how one industry has used — and misused — the notion of “impairment.”

Connecting the devastating effects of the Civil War and westward expansion.
What we lose when we only look through the lens of able-mindedness.
Knowing our world problems won’t magically disappear, we need to ask: What’s next? Professors offer their insights.
Becca (Ashley) Asare ’97 is helping to support African farmers and protect the environment.
Examples of the innovative ways faculty members kept their students engaged and connected during the spring semester.
Colgate has recently received more than $1.3 million in grants for faculty research from the National Science Foundation.
A capstone seminar takes students on a multidimensional exploration of a universal theme.
In the years leading up to the Second World War, German seafarers joined forces with an international labor union to combat the rise of fascism.
Using satellite imagery and field observation, a geographer studies changes in one of the world’s most important ecosystems.
Hilary Nicholson ’12 is using a decades-old concept to take aim at cancer.
Senegalese choreographers are using dance to explore socially taboo subjects.

UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

Now with more amino acids!
Interview with Louis W. Sullivan, MD.
When the body’s clock is off, mental health suffers.

Meet nephrologist Ron Shapiro.

Meet Linda Van Marter, who’s helping little breathers.

UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO

A sculptor practices the art and science of conservation.
Three UB alumni recall coming of age as scholars, writers and friends.

MIT

Using psychology and neuroscience to better understand political behavior.

Small Decisions That Shape a Nation

This is what your smartphone use says about society

Heeding the call of family history while exploring the role of clerics in the Shi’a world.
Renato Lima de Oliveira examines how a country’s natural resources affect its politics and policies.
For Amanda Rothschild, political science meets personal history in her studies of how the United States responds to genocide.
Information and the Latino vote.
Justin de Benedictis-Kessner helps explain political behavior at the federal level.

Lincoln School

Lincoln School’s thrice-yearly publication featuring school and alumnae news.

Other

A former commercial fisherman is shifting paradigms one ocean farm at a time.

Now that’s dedication.

Meet medical oncologist and colorectal cancer specialist Wafik El-Deiry, MD, PhD, FACP.

“Simplify, simplify, simplify!”

—Henry David Thoreau