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A Growing Presence Overseas
Departments

A Growing Presence Overseas

Going global

by John Hennessy

What the e-Nose Knows
Planet Cardinal

What the e-Nose Knows

An electronic nose sniffs out new possibilities

by Sandra A. Swanson

Ben the Builder
Planet Cardinal

Ben the Builder

A house builder in a kilt and on a mission

by Leigh Newman

The Man Who Dropped Clocks
Features

The Man Who Dropped Clocks

The winning entry in our 13th annual fiction contest features an aging patriarch trying to repair the estrangement caused by his son's modern ways.

by Anne Newton Holmes

The Sex Scholar
Features

The Sex Scholar

Her physician's career foreshortened, an enigmatic faculty member instead pursued a path-breaking study of women's sexuality at the turn of the 20th century. Her findings, buried and forgotten for decades, reveal a surprisingly modern attitude among Victorian-era women.

by Kara Platoni

The Wrestler
Profiles

The Wrestler

by Michael Copperman

A Bento Box of Fiction
Profiles

A Bento Box of Fiction

by Jenny Pegg

Lawyer at the Barre
Profiles

Lawyer at the Barre

by Joyce Gemperlein