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April 17, 2025

ORDINARY MAGIC: THE SCIENCE OF HOW WE CAN ACHIEVE BIG CHANGE WITH SMALL ACTS

The emotional questions we face can define our lives. If you’re expecting an interaction to go wrong, that expectation can make it so. That’s spiraling down. […]
April 10, 2025

HELD TOGETHER: A SHARES MEMOIR OF MOTHERHOOD, MEDICINE, AND IMPERFECT LOVE

Seventeen years ago, when family medicine and public health physician Rebecca Thompson, MD endured a string of life-threatening pregnancy losses and rare medical conditions, her training […]
April 3, 2025

THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US: WORKING AND HOMELESS IN AMERICA

The working homeless. In a country where hard work and determination are supposed to lead to success, there is something scandalous about this phrase. But skyrocketing […]
April 3, 2025

DEAR WRITER: PEP TALKS & PRACTICAL ADVICE FOR THE CREATIVE LIFE

New York Times bestselling author and poet Maggie Smith (FAN ’20, ’23) believes creativity is our birthright as human beings. Yes, all of us—no matter our […]
April 3, 2025

WHAT WE VALUE: THE NEUROSCIENCE OF CHOICE & CHANGE

With so many competing priorities pulling us in different directions every day―family, friends, work, our health―it can feel difficult to make decisions that are aligned with […]
March 20, 2025

UNTETHERED: CREATING CONNECTED FAMILIES, SCHOOLS, AND COMMUNITIES TO RAISE A RESILIENT GENERATION

Over the past decade, children’s mental health challenges have reached epidemic levels—stress, anxiety, childhood depression, and suicide are at unprecedented high rates. Amid high-stakes pressure for […]
February 27, 2025

99% PERSIPIRATION: A NEW WORKING HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE

As the wealth gap widens, communities crumble, and Americans work more for less, journalist Adam Chandler raises the question: What happens when perspiration isn’t enough? To […]
February 27, 2025

INSPIRE: THE UNIVERSAL PATH FOR LEADING YOURSELF AND OTHERS

Social psychologist and leadership expert Adam Galinsky, Ph.D. has spent three decades building a method for determining when we are inspiring versus infuriating, and where various […]
February 6, 2025

DETERMINED: A SCIENCE OF LIFE WITHOUT FREE WILL

One of our great behavioral scientists, Robert Sapolsky, Ph.D., the bestselling author of Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst, mounts a devastating […]
February 6, 2025

THE GRIEVING BODY: HOW THE STRESS OF LOSS CAN BE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR HEALING

Coping with death and grief is one of the most painful human experiences. While we can speak to the psychological and emotional ramifications of loss and […]
February 6, 2025

JOHN LEWIS: A LIFE

In John Lewis: A Life, award-winning historian and journalist David Greenberg, Ph.D., professor of history and of journalism and media studies at Rutgers University, presents new […]
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