Mountain Man
MIT founder William Barton Rogers has a mountain named after him. Yup — Rogers Mountain is the highest peak in Virginia — 5,729 feet. It’s located in southwest Virginia in the 120,000-acre Mt. Rogers...
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A Smallpox Therapy? Federal officials hope to rely on a smallpox vaccine to protect the U.S. population in the event of an outbreak, but there’s a problem: the vaccine can cause serious side effects in...
View ArticleLearning life lessons
Victor Sai is saying that although he is still young, growing older is often on his mind. “We’re all aging,” he says. “It’s something no one can escape, so it’s important to understand how it happens.”...
View ArticleLearning by doing
Amanda Sorenson longs to protect the great outdoors. She grew up in Townsend, Montana, a mountain community of 1,800, where the air is clean and the water is pure. “I always loved being outside,” she...
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Aaron Strauss took a semester off from MIT in 2000 to work as a polling analyst for Al Gore’s presidential campaign. After the 2000 election –– and all its chaos –– Strauss says, “I felt so...
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Ask Galen Pickard if he ever heard of Lawrence Welk and he gives you that look. You know that look. It’s the look a hip 18-year-old gives you when you ask if he ever heard of “champagne music.” Pickard...
View ArticleFinding a new field
Grace Chou owns no stocks herself, she says, but as a child she watched the financial news with her Dad, and her Mom taught her to read the stock pages. Now thanks to UROP, the 19-year-old junior — a...
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