Over the course of his four-month internship at the White House this semester, junior Shawn Syed collected memories by the bushel. He watched Marine One, the presidential helicopter, land and depart from the South Lawn. He attended the visit of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. And he worked in the Office of Presidential Correspondence, reading…
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Victory is literally a sunny future for these physics majors
In last year’s Mayo Business Plan Competition, the Solar Divide team had a great idea, but they didn’t have the business acumen to back it up—and it cost them. They didn’t advance beyond the first round. This year, like a phoenix rising, team members Nic Freschi and his business partner Cody Combs breathed new life…
A School of Nursing team in Haiti helped pull a toddler back from sure death
Severely malnourished, flaccid, and crying weakly, the 15-month-old was barely responsive when his mother carried him into the Port-au-Prince clinic’s triage section where Kelly Williamson met them. Williamson ’16 immediately sensed the urgency of the child’s condition, and ushered the boy and his mother to Sharon Byrne for further evaluation. “As soon as they walked…
How being a twin helped launch Andrew Goldfarb into grad school at Harvard
When Andrew Goldfarb was 14, he and his brother Zach wondered whether they were, in fact, identical twins. As newborns, the boys looked alike, and there seemed to be no need to perform genetic testing to determine whether they were among the one-third of twins who have identical DNA. “When I look at our infant…
Brenna Strollo talks swimming, nursing, and apple picking
Brenna Strollo talks swimming, nursing, and apple picking
Shirley Wang is unpacking new knowledge about eating disorders
Shirley Wang is unpacking new knowledge about eating disorders
Carl Ruiz is on TV—and in the Stud
Chef Carl Ruiz is no stranger to creating a kitchen. A restaurant consultant who has helped celebrity chefs craft their brands, his own restaurant—Marie’s Italian Specialties, in Chatham, New Jersey—has been featured on The Food Network’s “Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives.” Most recently, he won the grand prize on Guy’s Grocery Games, in which 16 of…
Hi. I’m Folake
NBC intern. Future producer. folake_flakes on Insta. Meet Folake Ayiloge, the senior interactive multimedia major who plans to make TV more entertaining.