Whether in the laboratory, classroom or community, the ability to bring people together around a shared purpose is a skill that can amplify your impact long after the conversation ends, writes Nicoletta Memos.

Menopause offers an opportunity to ask about the skeleton while a person still feels well. The answer may involve a risk assessment, suitable activity, nutritional changes or medical treatment. A bone health conversation can begin long before a fracture starts it, writes Priya Bhardwaj.

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.