Pat Bauer, a disability journalist, her son John Muller, a Beach Center researcher and now Yale Law School student, her daughter Margaret Muller, an author published in the Washington Post, and her husband Ed Muller, a lawyer and businessman, celebrate John’s graduation from Dartmouth in June, 2007.

Beach Center researchers are spearheading an extensive research program that defines quality of life based on the whole family rather than just the individual, which is a more traditional view.