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Empathy

Campus Life
Meet Lernik Asserian, a senior math lecturer. (Courtesy of Krystle Pierce)

Meet Lernik Asserian, the math senior lecturer who’s taught it all

Jenny Wang
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Oct. 15
Columnists
"The Knotted Gun" statue stands in front of the United Nations building in New York City.

Levine | Better gun legislation starts with empathy

Jennifer Xin-Tsu Lin Levine
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Sept. 12
The Grind
A family photo of a mother, in a green shirt, holding her young son.

FaceTime with mom: Boys and art

Ryder Thompson
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May 21, 2024
The Grind
Scene of a woman and a boy in the desert, touching hands.

‘Io Capitano’ evokes shared humanity at Stanford in Florence screening

Adelaide Madary
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May 13, 2024
The Grind
A cute, ample-cheeked mouse stares at the camera.

‘Le Petit Prince’: On mice

Benjamin Marra
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Nov. 17, 2022
Culture
The person in white short-sleeved shirt and white flowy pants stretches her arm in an elegant arch, her right foot ahead of her left. The students stand behind her, admiring the elegant dance as they stood in an atrium with wooden floor and the shadow of the window casting down

Planet Earth Arts teaches students to embrace ‘the other’ through dance

Sofia Gonzalez-Rodriguez
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May 4, 2022
The Grind
Others' perceptions of suffering may seem trivial to us, but that doesn't invalidate them. (Photo: Unsplash)

“You cannot compare suffering”

Jen Ehrlich
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May 26, 2020
Op-Ed Columnist
A man washes "Yankee Go Home" from a wall during a citywide cleanup following the 1953 coup d'état in the Iranian capital of Tehran. (Courtesy of AP)

WWIII memes betray our lack of empathy — and knowledge of history

Emily Wilder
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Jan. 26, 2020
News
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Founder of gang rehabilitation program talks empathy, optimism in face of death

Sophie Regan
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April 5, 2019
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‘Are you going to CAPS?’

From the Community
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Feb. 25, 2019
In "Reader, Come Home," Tufts professor Maryanne Wolf considers literacy in the digital age (TODD CHENEY/UCLA).

‘Reader, Come Home’ discusses the difficulty of staying literate

Scott Stevens
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Oct. 24, 2018
Mitski performs at the Paradise Rock Club in Boston. (KENNY SUN/Wikimedia Commons)

Mitski doesn’t need much time to devastate you

Jacob Kuppermann
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Sept. 23, 2018
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Brain injury support group responds to unmet need in local community

Yasmin Samrai
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June 7, 2018
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McClatchy Symposium addresses VR, net neutrality

Sean Chen
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Feb. 26, 2018
The Grind
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On balancing the voices in my head

Gurinder Nagra
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Jan. 16, 2018
The Marvel's "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." cast greets fans at the 2014 San Diego Comic-Con, which attracts more than 160,000 attendees each year. (Sandy Huffaker/Reuters)

The geek fan-omenon: Exploring the empowerment and toxicity of fandoms

Olivia Popp
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Oct. 11, 2017
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Chew softly

Amanda Rizkalla
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March 13, 2017
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The empathy paradox

Maddie Kim
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Nov. 17, 2016
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Virtual Human Interaction Lab uses virtual reality to foster empathy for homeless community

Rebecca Mak
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Aug. 1, 2016
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Syrian refugees, climate change and why we care about things

Amara McCune
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Jan. 20, 2016
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