30 Items
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.
College/University Partners, Current Scholars, Education & Research, Social Impact, Technology, Interview/Profile
Zakia Maryam Najafizada ’24 (UWC Robert Bosch College) responded to the Taliban’s 2021 takeover of her country, and its resulting barriers to higher education for women, by developing an online English-learning application for Afghan females.
College/University Partners, Current Scholars, Education & Research, Social Impact, Interview/Profile
Wilhem Hector (Haiti, UWC Red Cross Nordic, MIT ’25) founded and runs the Hector Foundation to help motivated Haitian high schoolers build the knowledge and skills they need to access higher education abroad.
College/University Partners, Current Scholars, Education & Research, Social Impact, Interview/Profile
Antonio Jorge Medeiros Batista Silva (Brazil, Pearson College UWC, Dartmouth ’25) secured a 2023 Projects for Peace grant to spend last summer creating a Krenak textbook for young people.
College/University Partners, Current Scholars, Education & Research, Interview/Profile
After winning Connecticut’s Christine W Matteson ’69 Prize for excellence in first-year Japanese, Stella König (Austria, UWC Atlantic, Connecticut College ’25) secured a Proctor Language Scholarship to attend the Middlebury College Language Schools.
