NYU Alum Sean Dillon: Turning Tragedy into Advocacy
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…[...]
Read More
Steph Habif: Using Technology-Driven Behavior to Improve Health
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…[...]
Read More
Mark Cheong: Moving Forward Through Music and Art
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…[...]
Read More
Leah Beekman: Taking a Fresh Look at Sarcasm
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…[...]
Read More
Geva and Benjamin Segal: Entrepreneurial Brothers Compete in Microsoft’s ImagineCup
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…[...]
Read More
Jimmy Ma: Setting His Own Course in Figure Skating
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…[...]
Read More
Harvard Graduate and Transgender Swimmer Schuyler Bailar Looks to the Future
When Schuyler Bailar graduated from Harvard University on May 30, 2019, he completed one of the most memorable student-athlete experiences in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) history. The first openly…[...]
Read More
Transgender Swimmer Schuyler Bailar Shares His Journey With Brandeis Student-Athletes
Two days after competing in his final collegiate swimming and diving meet, Schuyler Bailar came to speak to the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) and other student-athletes and administrators at Brandeis…[...]
Read More
Alumni Feature: Tyler Ng, Thriving Through Tourette’s
From the time he started seriously looking at Brandeis University as his potential college choice, Tyler Ng was confident it was the right place for him. With its academic reputation,…[...]
Read More
Sahil Gulati: Discovering Small Antibodies and Novel Compounds for Neurological Diseases
From the time that he was young, Dr. Sahil Gulati was always curious about how things worked and would perform his own experiments. That zeal for knowledge has led him…[...]
Read More