Thinking back to my own childhood, I can pinpoint how my academic interests were fostered through museums, whether gazing up at galaxies at the Hayden Planetarium or sleeping under the belly of the blue whale in the Hall of Ocean Life, writes graduate student Lili Mei Granda Argianas.

While affordability pressures are hitting Americans in many facets of their lives, from groceries to gas prices to housing costs, one important expense often gets less attention – childcare, writes Caitlyn Collins.

I still cherish the tactile quality of scribbling and scrawling my way through a lecture—the slow reveal of important concepts, the ease of annotating images, even the pen-stained hands, writes Eric Fournier.