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The Making of a Researcher: The Merits of Mentorship

February 21, 2022 16 min read
Principal Investigator. Professor. Soccer mom. Dr. Sonya Neal is a principal investigator, or PI for short, at UC San Diego studying the nitty-gritty of protein quality control–how cells ensure that every protein produced is properly... Read More

The Truth About the Serial Killer Gene

February 15, 2022 11 min read
I have a confession to make: sometimes when I’m really, really bored, I find myself watching Riverdale. Anyone else? (Feel free to say no–I know you’re lying, and this is me calling you out on... Read More

The Ethics of Euthanasia

February 9, 2022 7 min read
Picture this: It is the year 3020, and the Martian soil you have been drilling into has finally worked out. Colonizing Mars is taking shape, and soon your family can permanently live on this rusty,... Read More

The Science of Wellness: Nature Nurtures

February 2, 2022 8 min read
After a particularly long day full of dense lectures, looming deadlines, and cloudy skies, I decided to take the long way back to my apartment and explore parts of campus I hadn’t seen before. This... Read More

Seas the Day

January 24, 2022 9 min read
As I set out into the Indian Ocean, the waves crashed against the boat, increasing my seasickness. It didn’t help that the people on the shore looked more and more like tiny ants as we... Read More

The Curious Case of Mosquito Bites

November 17, 2021 7 min read
The leaves crackled under the soles of our shoes as we made our way from one part of the island to the other. A few beams of light pierced through the thick overhead canopy as... Read More

What STEM Fields Lack is Disability Culture

November 12, 2021 18 min read
During an on-campus fire drill in her junior year, recent graduate Syreeta Nolan realized that UC San Diego, like many universities, was asking her to either prioritize her physical health or her education. At the... Read More

The Making of a Researcher: From Pre-Med to PhD

October 27, 2021 9 min read
If you study biology at UC San Diego (like yours truly), you will find that research plays a pretty big role at this university. Here by the temperate La Jolla seaside, there is a host... Read More

The Art of Reductionism

July 21, 2021 13 min read
Famed Russian author Leo Tolstoy once said that “human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.” While this may seem like a bold statement from someone who... Read More

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