2025 Issue 1

Academic Pride, Friendship, and Place: The Western Regional Honors Conference

As the opposite of a morning person, I wasn’t thrilled to get up at 6 a.m. to get to the airport to catch our flight to Denver, where fourth-year biochemistry student Daphne Prakash, fourth-year history major Nyla Provost, and I were presenting at the Western Regional...

Challenging the Equation

Thanks to the editor-in-chief Katie Jang, I had the lovely opportunity to sit down with Royce Olarte, a La Sierra University class of 2017 Honors graduate. We talked about the many twists and turns that landed him in a dual-emphasis mathematics education and cognitive...

Stares, Street Food, and Subways: Malaysia/Singapore and South Korea

They say eyes are the window to the soul, but in Asia this summer, I realized they're more similar to X-ray machines. My Asian features seemed to give me temporary invisibility until I was joined by another person of a different ethnicity, turning us into a sidewalk...