Four weeks into winter quarter, Danielle Hershman was hospitalized with an infection that attacked her bladder and was spreading quickly to her kidneys. Doctors rooted the cause of the illness to poor eating habits. Hershman, a third-year art history student, had gained a significant amount of weight in prior months, and her body was not responding well to the increase. At that point, Hershman knew her lifestyle had to change. Read more...

Going into her fourth year in graduate school, organic chemistry student Courtney Thomas regularly communicates across the globe and conducts lab experiments, hoping to one day save lives. Read more...

There’s Driver’s Ed, AlcoholEdu, and even online degrees, but couples therapy? Read more...

Pierced in Steven Pham's mind is the surreal sight of a physically disabled caretaker who drags herself around with her hands. Read more...

Photo: Steven Pham and Nancy Vo will travel to Vietnam in September with Medical, Educational Missions and Outreach to provide medical assistance to Vietnamese children.

The first time Vena Chu drove a stick shift car was two years ago on a narrow cliff side road in Greenland, heading toward a four- or five-story-tall sheet of pure ice. Read more...

Photo: Graduate student Vena Chu will be conducting research in Greenland this summer on the impact of the melting ice sheet on the world’s oceans.

In a mountainous, forested region of British Columbia, songbirds will arrive for the summer breeding season, outfitted with tiny devices that have been tracking their migration patterns for the past year. Read more...

Photo: The hermit thrush returns to British Columbia each summer to breed and take advantage of food availabilities.