The Mount Sinai Health System began an effort this week to build a vast database of patient genetic information that can be studied by researchers — and by a large pharmaceutical company. The goal is to search for treatments for illnesses ranging from schizophrenia to kidney disease, but the effort to gather genetic information for…
There are plenty of shiny, new hotels in Montauk, the beach town at the tip of Long Island’s East End, which has gone from rustic village to chic destination in the last two decades. There’s Marram, a sleek-looking lodge with Frette linens and meditation classes, and Montauk Beach House, which offers a new vegan restaurant…
When John De Fries’s mother was in high school in the 1940s, she was forbidden from dancing the hula and speaking Hawaiian, the language of her ancestors. The school she attended was for children of Hawaiian descent, but instead of encouraging students to embrace that heritage, it tried to erase it. “That whole generation was…
Dr. Courtney Jo Pedersen saw Edward Collin Bearnot as more of an obstacle than a potential suitor when he offered to buy her a drink during a meet-up of Yale’s graduate men’s and women’s rugby teams in September 2015. “He was standing between me and the dance floor,” said Dr. Pedersen, who had been wearing…
The public relations maven George Regan was pretty sure but not convinced that Elizabeth Akeley would say yes when he asked her to marry him on Aug. 19, 2021. Days before he dropped to one knee in the sand next to the Great Point Lighthouse on Nantucket, his crisis management expertise kicked in. Mr. Regan…
The summer after my freshman year of college, I decided to live for a few months in the basement of my school’s library. I was by no means the first student to live there, as the university I went to offered scant financial aid and Manhattan rent is sky high. When I heard that other…
Early into her sobriety in 2014, Alyson Marla Chavez attended a recovery-themed meditation class at the Mindfulness Community of Milwaukee. She went at her sponsor’s behest, initially rolling her eyes at the whole thing. Then she caught sight of Joshua Robert Stewart. “I realized: ‘Oh, there are cute guys at A.A.,’” Ms. Chavez said. The…
Neither Kimberly NiCole Harris nor William James Browns Jr. had high expectations when they connected online in August 2019. Both had become almost disillusioned with the online dating world after trying various sites and apps. It was tiring, Ms. Harris said, “just not really finding people that you connect with.” “They weren’t working for me,”…