by Contributing Author | Jan 11, 2024 | Fall 2023, Fall 2023 Featured, Featured, Issue
I didn’t realize how drastically my summer plans would change when Dr. Diaz asked my SEA-GENES cohort if we were interested in an internship position with a biotech company called Ionis. When I started college two years ago, all I knew was that I enjoyed science... 
by Contributing Author | Jan 11, 2024 | Fall 2023, Fall 2023 Featured, Featured, Issue
Across the Pacific, on the shore of an island off the coast of Malaysia, I watched the still current calmly collide against the rocks before me. The scene was familiar; I have many memories from my childhood of being near the water. Over the years, I spent many... 
by Contributing Author | Jan 11, 2024 | Fall 2023, Fall 2023 Featured, Featured, Issue
I have always attended small schools. In elementary, I attended a school with twenty students. Although that number doubled to forty students in high school, I was still surrounded by the same people I grew up with. I knew them and their class standing and whether...