A phone call on August 5, 2005 changed NYU basketball alum Sean Dillon’s life forever. The call was from his father letting him know that Dillon’s stepbrother Tad had taken his own life the previous day. If you are in crisis, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255) or contact the CrisisContinue Reading
As the setter of four-time NCAA Division III Women’s Volleyball champions at Washington University, Steph Habif knew how to bring a team together for success. Today, the behavioral scientist is serving as the Senior Director of Behavioral Sciences at Tandem Diabetes Care, working with her team so that fewer diabetesContinue Reading
From being born in Singapore, growing up in China, and now attending college in the U.S., Mark Cheong is accustomed to seeing different parts of the world. Describing himself as an expatriate, Cheong’s vision for the future is based on the lessons he has learned from failures in his life.Continue Reading
From the time she was young, Leah Beekman knew she would take an unorthodox path in life. What she couldn’t have imagined as a youngster with a reading disorder is that she would dedicate her career to researching language, specifically the unchartered area of sarcasm. “Sarcasm has gotten a reallyContinue Reading
Inventing an automatic trash sorter may sound like a daunting task, but brothers Benjamin and Geva Segal saw a need and created their product, EcoSort, within 36 hours. “We competed in a couple of hackathons and we wanted to do something creative,” recalled Geva, a student at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts.Continue Reading
When Jimmy Ma performed his short program to DJ Snake/Lil Jon’s “Turn Down For What” at the 2018 U.S. National Figure Skating Championships, he took a recent rule change about skaters being able to use lyrics in their music to a whole new level. “I want there to be moreContinue Reading
