As his family endured two months of Russian occupation in the Kherson region of southern Ukraine, “hearing explosions and constantly fearing for their life,” Ivan Dudiak (Ukraine, UWC East Africa, Harvey Mudd ’26) began to wonder if drones could be used to safely scan his homeland for landmines.
After he had earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in petroleum engineering at the University of Oklahoma, Raymos Kimanzi ’17 (Uganda, Waterford Kamhlaba UWC) felt torn. He wanted to build more experience in the U.S.’s well-developed oil and gas industry—but he also longed to be back home
Strongly interested in how today’s nations are shaped by their history, Amherst senior Shreya Joshi ‘25(India, UWC Mahindra College) has put her curiosity to work in a number of archival research projects, both on campus and abroad.
Xan Chacko (India, Mahindra UWC India, Wellesley College ’05) is from a remote part of Kerala, a southern state in India. When she graduated from MUWCI in 2001, there were only five universities that were a part of the Davis UWC Scholars Program. She applied early to Wellesley, where she majored in Physics and Women’s Studies, rowed on the crew team, and represented the Wellesley Association of South Asian Cultures in the student Senate.
A research fellow in cardiology for the past three years at the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, Raheem Khadour (Syria, UWC Mahindra College, College of the Atlantic ’25) has been chosen to present his work at two national science conferences, and is a contributing author to a paper published in the Journal of Immunology.
Liza Gashi (Kosovo, UWC Costa Rica, Wartburg ’13) who as the Republic of Kosovo’s deputy minister for foreign affairs and diaspora writes, “my key priority is to strengthen the connection between Kosova and its diaspora communities globally.”
For an eight-minute speech to her college community last fall, first-year student Nana Hayrumyan ’27 (Artsakh/Armenia, UWC Dilijan) shared what she had learned from an experience that is hard even to imagine.
With a Ph.D. in development economics, Aarti Reddy (India, Li Po Chun UWC of Hong Kong, University of Richmond ’15) is building a career on illuminating and helping to guide changes in the digital economy’s world of work.
A business and psychology double major at Brandeis, Mar Manolioudaki ’26 (Greece, UWC Atlantic) was recently featured in the book Mikres Epikyndines, “Little Dangerous Ones,” which spotlights 100 Greek women who are driving change and who express themselves with bravery and authenticity.
