In our recurring series “Academic Admissions” we ask interesting people to tell us about the transformative role education has played in their lives. In this instalment, mathematician Dr. Priya Subramanian describes her cross-discipline and international quest to be one of the “why people”: and why that one more speculative e-mail sent in the middle of […]
In our recurring series “Academic Admissions” we ask interesting people to tell us about the transformative role education has played in their lives. In this instalment, Renee Watson talks about her early encounters with science in rural Australia and how getting stranded in London with barely enough money to buy a day’s groceries turned into […]
In our recurring series “Academic Admissions” we ask interesting people to tell us about the transformative role education has played in their lives. In this instalment, Howard Burton explains what happened after an inspirational physics professor gave him an appreciation for the beauty and utility of math, when his first choice—in sports—became improbable. Howard Burton […]
Your first job, whatever it might be, is often a useful foundation, as Neil Garg, Professor of Chemistry at University of California, Los Angeles, explains
Gina Cody, the first woman to have an engineering school named after her in Canada, worked relentlessly to distinguish herself in a male-dominated field. But her success isn’t a one-off. It’s trailblazing a path for other women in STEM to succeed
Lisa Petrides—founder and CEO of ISKME, an independent education nonprofit—knew she could improve education. But she had to quit her dream job at Columbia to make it happen
Knighted in 2003 for his service to the arts, Sir Ken Robinson, the bestselling author of The Element and Creative Schools, charted an unlikely course to find international success—he chased whatever truly interested him
Todd Rose—bestselling author of The End of Average—dropped out of high school because he couldn’t fit the mold. Then he realized that being different could be his ticket to the Ivy League