When Nick Miller left Penn State Lehigh Valley for University Park in 2013, it was with the earned admiration of his professors and a sense that he was quickly emerging as a leader among his peers. Nine years later, the Penn State graduate earned an even greater distinction as the youngest candidate to be elected to the Pennsylvania Senate in more than 123 years.
Hiba Moussa, a Syrian schoolgirl in a family of seven living in an unfinished, dim apartment just outside the capital city, often has to do her homework in the morning, as electricity is cut off in the poor neighborhood for the most of the night.