Although she had always been fascinated by the stars in the night sky, it wasn’t until Madyson Barber was a senior in high school that she got her first taste of the science behind the cosmos.
“We did one tiny unit on astrophysics, and I really loved it, and it took off from there,” says Barber, now a rising senior at Carolina. “We just touched on one thing I could learn about space, and it caused me to have so many more questions. So, I knew I wanted to dive deeper into that subject.”
Looking for the answers to her questions led her to UNC-Chapel Hill to study astrophysics in the College of Arts & Sciences and then to assistant professor Andrew Mann’s lab to research exoplanets planets outside of our solar system.
A bureaucratic nightmare of 32,211 words
Nobody set the minimum page count of the Exec’s second quarterly reports of 2021 at seven pages, but they chose to write that much, anyway. We read through all of them to let you know who’s doing what. Points were given exclusively for brevity, because that’s the only thing we can appreciate at this point in the year. It’s not that this stuff isn’t important, it’s just long and filled with acronyms. Haha words go brrrr.
1. Melissa Lama, President of the University of Otago Pacific Islands Students’ Association (UOPISA), 2,004 words. Vibe: Rise and grind
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An international student from India completing his PhD in New Zealand is begging to be let back into his course as he faces deportation following the termination of his enrolment.
Prithwish Sain, a University of Waikato chemistry student who has spent more than $200,000 to study here, said he was due to finish by the end of the year.
His enrolment has been terminated following a complete relationship breakdown between himself and his PhD supervisor, for whom he has since laid a series of complaints over.
These include bullying and harassment, accusations of theft and the misuse of Sain s research data.
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