In recent years, there has been a bright spotlight on Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). News stories on ASD have often highlighted insights from researchers, teachers, and parents but rarely a young person’s perspective. In these videos, you can hear autistic adolescents reflect on a range of topics — from “what it feels like to be me” to “what I think people misunderstand about autism.”

AdLit, WETA Public Broadcasting, 2023, produced in collaboration with Drescher Films, Inc.

“The only way to counteract people drawing horrible stereotypes about any group is to put out a plethora of stories that reflect the nuances and complexities of that group, and how many different types of experiences and personalities there really are within that group. So, I cheer for every book that comes out with a neurodivergent character in it!” In this article, award-winning author of acclaimed middle-grade novels Sally J. Pla talks (The Someday Birds) about how her own autism informs the characters and stories she writes.

Reading Rockets, WETA Public Broadcasting

The arts can tell us so much about the world — and about ourselves. Whether visual or performing, they help our heads and hearts as we strive to communicate, innovate, grow, rejoice, mourn — to feel, connect, and hope in ways we sometimes did not dream possible. The arts can push us to break barriers, invite unity, and create space. They make us want to be our best selves and, in so doing, help others do the same.

Winsor Bulletin, Fall 2022

“Each time you leave on a convoy, you think, this could be it. You don’t talk. You just hold your breath and react to what comes. You push down that constant fear of death. I think this is what PTSD is. You train for this … this ‘fear learning.’ You learn to constantly scan for danger, scan for threats and it gets hardwired into your brain. Not sure how to unlearn that. I’m still working on it.” — Retired US Army Sgt. Angela Peacock

BrainLine.org, WETA Public Broadcasting, January 2022

“During the pandemic, we have all been riding on the same water, but in different boats.” -- Tamar Rodney, PhD, MSN, RN, assistant professor, Johns Hopkins School of Nursing

BrainLine.org, WETA Public Broadcasting, July 2021

Have you ever been told to be quiet? To swallow your emotions, your ideas, your thoughts? Thus silenced, the power gets sucked right out of you; you feel diminished, squashed. There is only one cure: to garner the courage to open your mouth and speak your truth.

Winsor Bulletin, Fall 2019

This season’s Explorer Series couples music with science and nature, making the concert experience a smorgasbord for the senses.

Overture, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Winter 2007

Researchers at St. Jude help the world prepare for an avian flu outbreak.

Promise Magazine, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Winter 2006

Escalating Mexican drug wars equal baptism by fire for Kenneth Melson '70, the acting chief of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.

Denison Magazine, Summer 2009

There it sits in her home office, Bruce Springsteen’s harmonica, among the city of awards Sara Just ’84 has won over the years as a television producer.

Winsor Bulletin, Fall 2017

This issue covers “Lessons from Virtual Plus and Hybrid Learning” to “Activism Through Art, Music, and Words.”

Link Magazine, Winter/Spring 2021

Brainline and BrainlineMilitary are the award-winning and leading educational multimedia projects for people with traumatic brain injury, their caregivers, and professionals.

WETA Public Broadcasting, January 2008–Sept 2014

At 27, Darlene Iskra (B.A., ’74) didn’t enlist in the U.S. Navy with plans to change history. She simply wanted a job that offered security and benefits, promotional opportunities and a chance to travel.

SF State Magazine, Spring/Summer 2008

Does it get any cooler than shooting lasers from a spaceship on Mars? Since landing her dream job at Los Alamos National Laboratory, planetary scientist Nina Lanza ‘97 has now been a core part of two teams working on the Mars rovers. The possibilities never cease to amaze her.

Winsor Bulletin, Fall 2018

Things you need to know to run your own business.

Denison Magazine, Summer 2007

Notes on what no one says about divorce.

Portland Magazine, 2014

Peter O’Shea ‘88 is not afraid to speak his mind, whether that means stopping to chat with everyone on his three-block walk home for lunch, or telling off some teenagers kicking ornaments off a city Christmas tree. Your community, after all, is what you make it.

Bates Magazine, Spring 2007

On a recent afternoon after receiving an award for corporate leadership from the Greater Dallas Asian-American Chamber of Commerce — one of several awards she has garnered in the last few years — Winjie Miao ‘98 returned home with an 11x17-inch foam-board headshot of herself.

Johns Hopkins Engineering, Winter 2008

The Lab School of Washington celebrates its 50th anniversary as a leading school for students with language-based learning differences.

Link Magazine, Winter/Spring 2017