Anna Tran – Strauss Recipient

Anna Tran – Strauss Recipient

Anna majors in Biological Sciences and is a SAGE Scholar. She designed a community engagement project called “Pay It Forward” which matches undergraduate pre-medical interns with seniors living in senior apartments to improve seniors’ health and fitness education,...
Mohamad Abedi – Paul & Daisy Soros Recipient

Mohamad Abedi – Paul & Daisy Soros Recipient

At UC Irvine, Mohamad worked on building diagnostic devices for rural areas by designing computers that run on air instead of electricity. Later, he investigatedthe robustness of bacterial genetic circuits with respect to noise. Recently, Mohamad received the National...
Sarah Amarragy – Fulbright Semi-Finalist

Sarah Amarragy – Fulbright Semi-Finalist

Sarah is a recent graduate who majored in Political Science. She is interested in research on the connections between contemporary Arab political thought and recent political events in Egypt during the “Arab Spring,” with attention to civil liberties, democratic...
Kenneth Lai – Fulbright Recipient

Kenneth Lai – Fulbright Recipient

Kenneth is a graduating senior majoring in English and Classics. With the support of the Fulbright, he will undertake a master’s degree at the University of Helsinki, Finland, study religious texts in Ancient Greek and Latin, and complete a thesis on Gnostic thought...