Everything Else Fell Away
Sick since childhood, music teacher Sungrai Sohn desperately needed a new liver. Here’s the amazing tale of how a loving relative and innovative surgery gave him back his life.
View ArticleThe Kingdom of the Sick:Narrative medicine helps caregivers and patients find...
How can a healthy person understand what it’s like to be seriously ill? And how can the sick make sense of this life-changing experience? Narrative medicine uses the power of storytelling to navigate...
View ArticlePuppy Love
Sometimes the best comfort comes on four legs. Linda Koebner MA ’12 and her therapy dog Spirit dispense their own kind of medicine in a Bronx hospital.
View ArticleRight Now: Dr. Joanne Kurtzberg '72 on teenagers, cancer, and the value of...
One of many problems facing teenagers with cancer: they can’t kiss. Dr. Joanne Kurtzberg '72, an expert on blood and marrow transplants, talks about how sick teens cope with rough times.
View ArticleFull Immersion: A Physician Contemplates Healing and Grace
Can believing in miracles help cure an illness? Dr. Clarion Johnson '72 takes sick pilgrims to a healing shrine, and finds himself transformed.
View ArticleStolen Histories
How can you tell if a painting was stolen by Nazis? At Boston’s Museum of Fine Art, Victoria Reed ’96 delves into the secrets of the museum’s holdings in order to right the wrongs of the past.
View ArticleThe Holy Grail
The meanings behind Western culture’s most famous lost object, as explained by famed mythologist and literature faculty emeritus Joseph Campbell.
View ArticleTalismans and Touchstones
Everyday items take on extraordinary meaning at the National September 11 Memorial Museum, where Alice Greenwald '73 tells the story of that awful day using objects found in the rubble.
View ArticleLost Treasures
They say you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone. Here, members of the SLC community recount uncanny, heartwarming, and poignant tales of items lost and found, from the grasslands of China to...
View ArticleBack from Kathmandu
In May 2012, a crew of 10 SLC alumni and faculty traveled to Nepal to spend three weeks filming Red Monsoon, a movie written by Eelum Dixit '09.
View ArticleReality TV
Mariah Smith ’13 prepares for life after graduation by interning for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and Saturday Night Live.
View ArticleRound-table conversations on world-changing ideas: Are video games art?
Mike Siff’s computer science class “Digital Zeitgeist” ponders the question, When does a video game become art?
View ArticleInequality in the Criminal Justice System
Students in Vanessa Agard-Jones' Sociology course "Racial Americana" explore narratives of racial domination.
View ArticleUnlikely Landscape
Fresh Kills was once the world’s largest landfill. Now it’s turning into a park. Eloise Hirsh ’67, the park’s administrator, gives us a tour of the ultimate trash-to-treasure transformation.
View ArticleThe Next Big Thing
The digital revolution. Social media. The Lion King. Charlie Fink ’81 knows how to exploit a cultural moment. Exhibits A, B, and C: his many careers.
View ArticleA Feud Forgotten
When the memory of past conflict is wiped clean by Alzheimer’s disease, a mother and daughter get an unexpected chance to rebuild their relationship.
View ArticleWorm Front
Composting evangelist Eli Colasante ’13 has battled inertia, housing regulations, and some nasty smells in his ongoing quest to reduce the College’s food waste.
View ArticleFight Like Hell
Gerda Lerner was a visionary who shaped the discipline of women’s history. Not an easy thing to do—and Lerner was, by most accounts, not an easy person to be around. Oral historian Gerry Albarelli ’80...
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