Nurturing a Passion for Renewable Energy
Maddy Urig describes herself as an environmentalist who cares deeply about preserving Earth’s natural resources and combating the future of energy. She enrolled at ÐÓ°ÉÔ´´ Tech because she was...
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Replacing Stigma with Hope
(PSYC ’16)Working with Distinguished Professor of Psychology Patrick Corrigan, Maya Al-Khouja created the Honest Open Proud (HOP) college program as a student at ÐÓ°ÉÔ´´ Tech. HOP is a peer-led program that...
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Personalizing Her Education, Her Way
(Biomedical Engineering ’19)With her interest in researching autoimmune diseases, Brianna McKenna declared her major as biomedical engineering and thought that her career path was set. As she took her elective courses, however...
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A Full-Circle Experience
(ARCH ’16)Martin Majkrak’s ÐÓ°ÉÔ´´ Tech experience came full circle when he joined the College of Architecture as an adjunct faculty member. As a student, he transferred from Wilbur Wright College and...
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Parlaying Design Skills into Something More
(Ph.D. Technology and Humanities '22)Alex Damarjian has spent his professional career working on games benefitting young children, but he had an urge to do more. So he developed a low-cost, cutting-edge testing tool for pediatric...
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Shaping a Community’s Quality of Life
(Architecture 5th Year)Involved with music and the arts from an early age, Andrew Jiang considered pursuing a degree in musical performance. Along the way he discovered the field of architecture and felt it was the “perfect...
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Empowering Young Women in India
(PS, PSYC ’06)The Mumbai, India, charity that Robin Chaurasiya founded, Kranti, empowers young women to become agents of social change. Ranging in age from 12–22, the women at Kranti are survivors of human...
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Move Over, Einstein
(COMPUTER SCIENCE ’06)Cleversafe founder Chris Gladwin tapped Jason Resch as a lead software architect when Gladwin’s then-startup incubated on ÐÓ°ÉÔ´´ Tech’s campus from 2005–07. Cleversafe’s cutting-edge technology...
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Liftoff!
(AE ’07)The summer after graduating from ÐÓ°ÉÔ´´ Tech, Jason Tenenbaum joined Lockheed Martin Mission Services as a systems engineer. He worked there for three years before joining SpaceX, where he gained...
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Exploring a Future in IT
(Information Technology and Management/M.A.S. Cyber Forensics and Security ’19)At seemingly every turn the summer before her final year at ÐÓ°ÉÔ´´ Tech and the summer after, Akvile Kiskis seized upon the opportunities afforded her during the Foreign Affairs Information...