24 Items
College/University Partners, Current Scholars, UWC High Schools, Education & Research, Social Impact, Interview/Profile
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.
Alumni, College/University Partners, UWC High Schools, Education & Research, Technology, Interview/Profile
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.
College/University Partners, Current Scholars, UWC High Schools, Education & Research, Health & Medicine, Social Impact, Interview/Profile
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.
Alumni, College/University Partners, UWC High Schools, Education & Research, Social Impact, Interview/Profile
When he was in seventh grade, Cuauhtémoc Cruz Herrera (Mexico, UWC-USA, Macalester ’19) discovered a passion for math—and that kindled a life’s goal “of improving the quantity and quality of educational opportunities for all students,” he writes, “especially public-school students like me.”
College/University Partners, Current Scholars, Education & Research, Social Impact, Technology, Interview/Profile
Brandon Villalta Lopez (Nicaragua/Costa Rica, UWC Changshu China, Bates ’25) isn’t afraid to perform before an audience—or to examine mysteries of the universe.
Alumni, College/University Partners, Education & Research, Technology, Interview/Profile
After graduating from Ringling College in 2016 with a degree in computer animation, Vladimir Stanishevskii (Russia, UWC Adriatic) returned with his family to Ringling to “teach animation with a kind heart.”
Alumni, College/University Partners, UWC High Schools, Education & Research, Interview/Profile
Rojay Robert Bryan (Jamaica, UWC Southeast Asia, Bennington College ’22) chose to matriculate to Bennington because of its open curriculum, and the freedom to design his own path of study. That allowed him to combine his interests in policy, agriculture, and sustainability.
College/University Partners, Current Scholars, Education & Research, Health & Medicine, News Item
Angel-lee Randone (Thailand, UWC Thailand, Rochester ’24) works as a researcher investigating the long-term effects of repeated concussions on athletes at the University of Rochester’s Strong Memorial Hospital.
Current Scholars, UWC High Schools, Education & Research, Health & Medicine, Interview/Profile
When Aylin Ak ’24 (Germany, UWC in Mostar) learned that her grandfather had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s she became passionate about “research that improves human health by discovering actionable solutions to complicated diseases.”
College/University Partners, Current Scholars, Education & Research, Health & Medicine, Interview/Profile
Melvin Osei Opoku ’26 (Ghana, UWC-USA) works in a lab at the University of Florida where he helps investigate how certain bacteria can produce organic chemicals called terpenoids.
