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A Life of Inquiry 

As the Basic Program marks its 80th anniversary, Ross Sweeny (CER’83) reflects on his journey at the Graham School.

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Sean Keilen on Three Lessons from the Liberal Arts

Sean Keilen, professor of literature at UC Santa Cruz, founding director of Shakespeare Workshop, and author of Shakespeare Scholars (Princeton University Press, 2026), joins moderator and Graham School instructor Chris Jones to draw three lessons from the liberal arts out of Shakespeare’s plays. The conversation opens with a foundational question: what does it mean to……

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Allison Aubrey on Rediscovering Purpose in Midlife

NPR health correspondent Allison Aubrey traces how a reporting assignment at the Potocsnak Longevity Center at Northwestern University led to an unexpected personal reckoning. While undergoing tests measuring biological age through epigenetic clocks and DNA methylation, she arrived at a realization that she had been running too fast and needed to stop. That moment became……

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Dana Suskind on Raising Children in the Age of AI

Dana Suskind, founder and co-director of the TMW Center for Early Learning and Public Health and a professor of surgery and pediatrics at the University of Chicago, traces her work from pediatric cochlear implant surgery to brain development research to the rise of generative AI. Her book Human Raised grew from a central observation in……

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