by Contributing Author | Jun 14, 2024 | Featured, Issue, Spring 2024, Spring 2024 Featured
As we wrap up the 2023-2024 academic year, I had the opportunity to sit down and talk with graduating biomedical student Brian Nguyen about his Honors Thesis “Phenotypic Characterization of 123 Genes in Bacteriophage Lebron Expressed in Mycobacterium smegmatis.”... 
by Contributing Author | Apr 29, 2024 | Featured, Issue, Winter 2024, Winter 2024 Featured
In the world of neuroscience, where many have sought to understand the complex behaviors and disorders of the brain, La Sierra University’s Honors Program takes pride in alumni Daniel Bazan. I had the wonderful opportunity to speak with Bazan about his pathway in... 
by Contributing Author | Apr 29, 2024 | Featured, Issue, Winter 2024, Winter 2024 Featured
Drowning In My Singularity Far within the depths of my digital gallery of life, is a video from what feels like eons ago. Just shy of two minutes, the grainy footage and bright colors ring brightly with radiant laughter as my mother gently endeavored to rein in my... 
by Contributing Author | Apr 29, 2024 | Featured, Issue, Winter 2024, Winter 2024 Featured
During this winter quarter, I had the wonderful opportunity to meet and speak with Dr. David Kendall, one of the professors within La Sierra University’s music department. Kendall recently published his book, “The Music of the Spheres in the Western Imagination,” and,... 
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...