Dakota McCoy fills many shoes: those of an athlete, a professional researcher, a leader, and a great naturalist. She was recently awarded the Rhodes Scholarship and plans to study zoology or environmental policy at Oxford University.
Aaron Feuer, ES ’13, is the CEO and lead developer of his startup, Panorama, an education analytics company that seeks to uncover and solve the most pressing problems in our nation’s schools.
Darren Zhu has been awarded one of the 20 Under 20 Thiel Fellowships, worth $100,000, to continue his work with the biotech company that he and David Luan founded.
Helen Jack, a recipient of the 2012 Rhodes scholarship, has combined coursework in biology and international studies and hopes to use both areas of expertise to help improve healthcare in Ghana.
The Yale iGEM team, founded only two years ago, has characterized a novel antifreeze protein produced by the Siberian beetle, research which won them first place in the “Food and Energy” category at the 2011 iGEM World Championships.
The Yale Scientific is featuring several unique summer experiences from your fellow undergraduates, who have traveled around the world, working in all areas of science this past summer.
In his time at Yale, David Kohn TC ’12 has developed a new method for thin-film deposition of electrodes, even taking a year off to work full-time on this project.
William Zeng, BK ’11 was selected as a Rhodes Scholar; he will pursue a Master of Science in mathematics and the foundations of computer science at Oxford in October.
“There was no moment when I said “I’m going to be a scientist!” I did want to be other things, like a poet, a chicken
Take a stroll around Saybrook one day and odds are you’ll run into one of its most beloved Saybrugians: Akshay Gupta SY ’13. Although many
Nimit Jain, a junior in Saybrook College, is the rare student who steps beyond the strict boundaries that academia often constructs. Using an analogy from
Anna Jo Bodurtha Smith enjoys running, country music, sorority life, and dreaming up ways to improve national pediatric health through social policy. She is anything