A relatable approach to research (opens in new tab)

On a warm April afternoon inside Arizona State University’s Rob and Melani Walton Center for Planetary Health, a group gathers around a table in a conference room — laptops open, notebooks scattered, Post-it notes and postcards conveying personal messages, conversation moving easily between science and story.About a dozen participants sit in person, others join online, some are eating, but the tone is unmistakably communal. No one appears to be “studying” anyone else. Instead, they are workin...