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 that she would dedicate her career to researching language, specifically the unchartered area of sarcasm. “Sarcasm has gotten a reallyContinue Reading
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 in a couple of hackathons and we wanted to do something creative,” recalled Geva, a student at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts.Continue Reading
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 skaters being able to use lyrics in their music to a whole new level. “I want there to be moreContinue Reading
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 transgender athlete to compete in any sport on an NCAA Division I men’s team earned a degree in psychology andContinue Reading
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 University. Bailar, the first openly transgender athlete to compete in any sport on an NCAA Division I men’s team, viedContinue Reading
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 to team with internationally renowned scientist Dr. Krzysztof Palczewski to make several key discoveries that could help alleviate the damageContinue Reading