Before The Abstract

A global cities consultant has an inspiring trip to Pune, India thanks to a charismatic local leader.

Ruth develops an unlikely friendship in the Peruvian Amazon studying the social and environmental effects of the Interoceanic Road.

Ethan Hollander grapples with a morally harrowing question after interviewing a Nazi war criminal.

Elisa Schaum describes her experience as the only scientist in a family of eclectic artists.

A professor and new father juggles building a syllabus for a new online class with starting a family.

As the only black woman on a two-month voyage, Dawn Wright tries to find her place aboard scientific drill vessel JOIDES Resolution.

A surgeon shares her struggle to keep emotional distance from her work versus the desire to express herself through creative writing.

A criminologist receives a letter from a convicted murderer.

A law professor reflects on a case he took early on as a public defender that would forever shape his career in mental disability law.

What begins as a research project quickly becomes a life-altering lesson in the truth behind stereotypes, the importance of empathy, and the unparalleled power of human connection.

A military surgeon must perform surgery in the middle of a sandstorm in Iraq.

After witnessing too many haunting incidents of preventable fatalities, one surgeon sets out to change the social environment that allows gun violence to jeopardize the lives of its citizens.

One evening of Diwali 45 years ago in Mumbai, India inspires global cancer staging in a way one physician could never have imagined.

Dr. Moran Cerf shares a humorous anecdote about the time his team's new publication picked up rapid-fire media coverage...for entirely the wrong reason.

Dr. Jerry Franklin is gifted with a revelation about nature's legacies during his years of work on Mount St. Helens.

Dr. A. Leslie Morrow shares what keeps her going in her research on alcoholism: misguided reviewer comments, a promising new development in gene therapy, and the miraculous life of her cousin, Lance.

Becoming a mother challenges one professor to rethink personal and professional boundaries in her classroom.

Dr. Ian Anderson must relearn what it means to project manage when he takes a job in the U.S. and moves from the South of France to a very different Southern environment.

Dr. Janet Silbernagel's personal and professional worlds collide in China, where cranes begin to stretch her perception of connections across landscapes.

French neurobiologist Etienne Hirsch recollects his use of Claude Bernard's scientific methodology from boyhood to adulthood in his journey to alleviate Parkinson’s Disease symptoms.