2025 Issue 1

How Research Transforms Students into Scholars: Scientific Engagement in the Honors Program

Despite being a small institution, La Sierra University’s undergraduate research labs have consistently given students opportunities to participate in published research. Particularly, students within the Honors Program consistently produce meaningful research each...

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...

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...