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Ziqian Feng is a Graduate Student in the Health Data Science program. She loves to explore the big questions in life and wishes to use her poetry as a channel for opening and community.

Originally published in Synapse on December 8, 2005. Following the withdrawal of Harriet Myers’ nomination for Supreme Court justice, President George W. Bush was faced with a choice: to select a ...

There was a time when I thought everything in the future was predictable. Then, there came a time when I thought nothing was predictable. There was a time when I thought a career was everything. Then, ...

People say that because we were born on the other side, in the north, we are neither from here nor from there. Our colonizing Spanish is rusty and we are “gringas” like bidi bidi bom bom, and what can ...

Imagine this: You’ve just gone through an intense cycle of labor after a high-risk pregnancy involving a breech birth andlife-threatening complications. But thankfully, with the support of hospital ...

The idea of good and evil is pervasive in most of society. From fairy tales to modern day media, we despise villains who wreak havoc and worship heroic protagonists who in turn defeat the evil and ...

According to the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change service, 2024 is set to be yet another hottest year ever recorded. The same group of researchers also concluded that Earth’s average global ...

Originally published in Synapse on December 15, 1965. So much has been said about patriotism lately that your editor was motivated to do some searching in order to find what other Americans have said ...

While other people have been achieving publications and awards, the highlight of my PhD so far is achieving the unthinkable - learning how to extract the components of human stool that glow under UV ...

The idea of good and evil is pervasive in most of society. From fairy tales to modern day media, we despise villains who wreak havoc and worship heroic protagonists who in turn defeat the evil and ...

I took this photo in Mumbai this summer, on my first trip to India. What surprised me most about Mumbai, more than the constant honking, or the sheer, teeming magnitude of the city, was its ...