Philip
Philip graduated summa cum laude from the University of Portland with a degree in English. He next earned a PhD in English at Northwestern University.
Andrew R.
Andrew is an MSc Candidate in Neuroscience at McGill University. Previously, he earned a BA in Biological Sciences at Cornell, graduating magna cum laude.
Ahmed
Ahmed earned a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology, with a minor in Inequality Studies from Cornell University. He is currently an MD student specializing in Community Health and Informatics & Data-Driven Medicine at Stanford School of Medicine.
Karen
Karen attended Cornell University, where she majored in Environmental and Sustainability Science and graduated cum laude. She also holds an MPA in Environmental Science and Policy from Columbia University. Karen currently works as an Environmental Consultant for the financial and manufacturing sectors.
Paul S.
Paul graduated as a Merrill Presidential Scholar from Cornell University's College of Human Ecology in May 2021 with a Bachelor of Science in Human Biology, Health, and Society. He is pursuing his MD at the University of Pennsylvania.
Victor Od.
Victor double majored in Complex Systems and Mathematics at Cornell, where he graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. He will next pursue a PhD in Applied Math.
Connor S.
Connor studied Mathematics at Cornell, and is now completing a PhD in Math at the University of Wisconsin Madison, focusing on combinatorics and algebraic geometry.
Rodrigo
Rodrigo is a 4th year medical student at the University of California, San Francisco. Originally from Los Angeles, he studied nutritional science at Cornell University, where he graduated with honors and distinction.
Morgan
Morgan holds a JD from Vanderbilt University Law School and a BA in American Studies from Wesleyan University. She is a former lawyer admitted to practice in the State of New York (having worked in both government and BigLaw), and most recently was the Script Coordinator on a Netflix TV show.
Daniel C.
Daniel graduated magna cum laude with a BS in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Cornell. After working as a mechanical engineer designing medical devices for 5 years, he is now back at school pursuing his MBA at MIT Sloan.
Sonya C.
Sonya is presently an MBA Candidate at Harvard Business School. A published fiction writer and Presidential Scholar graduate of Cornell University, she holds a BS in Applied Economics with a minor in Creative Writing.
Ryan E.
Ryan completed her undergraduate studies at Cornell University in Cellular and Molecular Biology. She is currently pursuing her PhD thesis research at MIT, where her work is focused on understanding how proliferating cancer cells reprogram metabolism to maintain the metabolic requirements for rapid cell growth and division.
Nina P.
Nina is a PhD Candidate in Inorganic Chemistry at Harvard. She was recently awarded the Certificate of Distinction in Teaching by the Harvard Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning.
Rakeeb
Rakeeb graduated summa cum laude from Cornell University with a degree in Biological Engineering. He then pursued a research position at Johns Hopkins University, where he discovered a passion for immunology that has since led him to become a PhD candidate in the Immunology program at Harvard.
Penelope
Penelope attended the University of Chicago, where she graduated with a major in Comparative Literature. She then completed a Master 1 at the Sorbonne Nouvelle in Comparative Literature. She is currently a PhD candidate in Romance Studies - French at Cornell University.
Isaac L.
Isaac graduated in 2020 with a BS in Neurobiology and Behavior from Cornell. As a student, he spent much of his time investigating diabetes treatments and bariatric surgery. He is an MD Candidate (2026) at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons .
Lisa A.
Lisa attended Cornell University where she graduated magna cum laude in Chemistry and Chemical Biology. After Cornell, she worked at Procter and Gamble making your favorite household laundry supplies! She is now a PhD candidate in the Chemistry and Chemical Biology program at Harvard.
Bex
Bex majored in theatre and minored in creative writing at Northwestern University, graduating summa cum laude. After settling in Chicago, Bex won a prestigious Luminarts Cultural Foundation fellowship in creative writing. They are now an MFA candidate at Hamline University, where they study writing for children and young adults.
Pooja R.
Pooja is an MD candidate at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. She studied Cell and Molecular Biology at Cornell University, graduating summa cum laude with Distinction in Research. During her senior year, she was awarded the Academic Excellence Award, which recognizes the top two scholars in the Biological Sciences major.
Vivian U.
Vivian is a first year medical student at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Previously, she earned her BS in Computational Biology with a Computer Information Science minor from Cornell University.
Brooke
Brooke majored in Biological Sciences at Cornell. She is now an Organismic and Evolutionary Biology PhD student at Harvard University, where her focus is deep sea molecular biology.
Pooja D.
Pooja studied Biological Sciences & Psychology at Cornell University before attending Weill Cornell Medical College. Presently, she's a pediatric neurology resident at Lurie Children's Hospital.
Mike
Mike holds a BS in Political Science (Northwestern), an MSc in Sociology (Oxford), and an MD (Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai). He's pursuing a career in critical care in low-resource settings.
Molly
Molly earned her BS in Biomedical Engineering with a minor in Global Health at Northwestern (summa cum laude, Tau Beta Pi). She is currently a PhD candidate in Biological Engineering at MIT.
Jennie
Jennie is currently a dental student at Harvard Dental School. She earned her Bachelor's in Human Biology, Health, and Society, with a minor in Health Policy and Human Development at Cornell University.
Sanjna
Sanjna earned her BA in Biochemistry at Cornell University (Phi Beta Kappa). She is now a medical student at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is a Twenty-First Century Scholar.
Nick
Nick received his BA in Biological Sciences with a concentration in Genetics, Genomics, and Development from Cornell (Phi Beta Kappa). He is now pursuing a dual MD/PhD in the Harvard-MIT joint program