Browsing: Fall 2018

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Ready to Serve

The Health Professions Scholarship Program prepares students for military service—and medicine. Six students at the Warren Alpert Medical School are…

GOT YOUR BACK: Scotti Pfirrman, left, and Tom Lopardo were among the millions of Americans who served in Afghanistan and Iraq after 9/11. Now third-year medical students, most of their classmates were in elementary school when they deployed. Photo by Dana Smith.
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Lean On Me

In the military and in med school, these servicemember students find it’s the people beside you who make or break…

Illustration by Stuart Bradford.
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Science is a Team Sport

The days of “science for science’s sake” are over. Advance-CTR is laying the framework for research that can be translated…

Photo courtesy Steve Brosnihan
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The Magic Minute

Look out over the Providence skyline any given night at 8:30 and you’ll see dozens of blinking lights. It’s not…

Illustration by Ken Orvidas
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Center Stage

How did humans evolve to have reason, consciousness, and free will? An excerpt from Kenneth Miller’s latest book, The Human Instinct.