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It fights anxiety and depression, increases focus, and amplifies awareness: how meditation changes the brain.

Many who work for religious understanding between Muslims, Christians, and Jews use the biblical figure of Abraham as a point of commonality. But Harvard University Jewish studies scholar, Jon Levenson, PhD ’75 says that Abraham--the figure and his story--means very different things to adherents of the three different traditions distinguishing them from one another as much as it binds them.

Tufts University Professor James Intriligator, PhD '97, a human factors engineer, has some tips for getting the most out of large language models like ChatGpt.

This month, Princeton's Ellora Derenencourt breaks down new research on how the racial wealth gap has evolved since emancipation, why it's been so stubbornly persistent over the past 160 years, and the role this country's original sin of slavery continues to play in its perpetuation.

Dame Louise Richardson, PhD ’89, formerly the head of the universities of Oxford and St. Andrews, says institutions of higher learning can model a fairer and more representative society

Sara Bleich, PhD '07, former director of nutrition security for the Biden administration, on the obesity crisis and what policymakers, communities, and individuals can do to fight it