Northwestern United States - Publications - Faculty & Research

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Nelya Nikonova

"I want to live... I want to live... A chance to live my life, I want to search far and wide and have a reason to wonder why... " When I was in high school, this song from "Peace Child", a musical created by Soviet and American children, became... View Details

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Ningfeng Hu

I still remember how depressed I was when studying China Modern History in the middle school. If history is a drama, the past +100 years in China before the reform must be a tragedy, filled with invasions, wars, mass poverty, chaos, and disasters of humanity. It's at... View Details

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Melissa Weiksnar

I'm still inspired by an unattributed quote that I clipped in high school, "Success isn't the money or the privileges. It isn't the might and the mighty. It's being able to do the things you deeply care about." I do what I do for the future, further propelled... View Details

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Mathew Turner

"...to whom much is given, much will be required..." Luke 12:48 I will give back... to my family, my country and our world... .because I have been blessed with a lot: parents that instilled the values in me to beat the harsh streets that stole friends' lives;... View Details

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Meg Stern

When I graduated from high school, I made a list of the things I wanted to do before I turned thirty. The list looked like this: Learn languages: French, Spanish, Hebrew. Live in Europe. Be the boss. Learn sports: skiing, tennis, running five miles (without stopping).... View Details

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Monica Sharma

It began with a pack of Legos from a McDonald's Happy Meal. A few plastic blocks were meant to be a helicopter, but I quickly transformed them into a multipurpose vehicle — a boat and time machine. To me, Legos were not inconsequential 1x2 inch plastic blocks; they... View Details

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Masood Razaq

I have always thought of myself as a Man with a Plan. It's as if I were speeding down the Autobahn, with a clear destination in mind and an obsession with getting there as quickly as possible. Yet the further along I race into the Future, the more I realize that my... View Details

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Monica Lee

Throw out the five-year plan. Toss out the day planner. Turn my back on the could-ofs, should-ofs, and would-ofs constantly swirling through my head. Free myself from the CAGE of my own expectations... to graduate from the top schools, secure the most prestigious jobs,... View Details

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Michael Murphy

"I'm going to be an Olympic diver", I confidently declared as a knock-kneed, chubby 10 year-old. "Sure Mike - go for it", responded my supportive but somewhat sceptical family. "Off to the Olympics hey", quipped highly dubious school... View Details

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Madison Mauze

Live Fully I want to live each and everyday fully: To climb high; to reach low extending a helping hand. To run hard; to sleep soundly. To follow my passions; to face my fears and not be controlled by them. To empathize with others! Especially those who look at the... View Details

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Maria Makhabane

I finally made it home at the age of five. Home - the country from which my father had been exiled for sixteen years when he actively opposed apartheid. Home - the land that he could only hope to one day see again. When apartheid finally ended, my family moved from... View Details

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Matthew Mahoney

When the Dalai Lama suggests we approach love and cooking with reckless abandon, he underlines the role of creativity - of dreaming beyond our current selves - in creating happiness. There's a seat belt, though, a restrainer that limits how creative we're willing to... View Details

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Mike Lynch

I never saw the rocket-propelled grenade that was meant to kill me that morning. I just heard it scream over my head and erupt in a deafening explosion behind me. The sights and sounds and smells of war were magnified in that instant: the blinding desert sun reflected... View Details

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Meredith Lobel

Stand in the wind. Face forward. Fearless. Flexible. Yet I will also pause while the wind blows, to notice the gifts that arrive with each day. The precious present is the package that is already on our doorstep. I shall have the patience to seek, find, and untie the... View Details

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Mira Lee

In my lifetime I want to question everything always feel the "first kiss tingles" every time I kiss experience absolute bliss fly fishing in Montana, climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro, visiting the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, seeing the sunrise in Capetown and diving... View Details

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Michelle Henry

On day 34 of not eating, I stopped being hungry. It was a Friday night in March 2014, and the smell of pizza filled the house. My parents scarfed down slices as quickly as they could, hiding from me. I breathed in the pepperoni-scented air, waiting for my mouth to... View Details

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Mark Gundersen

Whether on his own or within a team, Mark Gundersen loves to solve problems. So when a college friend told him about a microfinance initiative in Nicaragua, he was eager to jump on board. "It was World Relief, a nonprofit founded by a Harvard Kennedy School... View Details

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Michael Farias

When Michael Farias initially arrived at Harvard Medical School, he did not think about the business side of medicine. "I thought medicine was just about treating disease," he says. "But my first year in med school opened my eyes to the economics of... View Details

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Michael Echenberg

In the middle of October in 1921, Franz Kafka wrote in his diary, "Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will... View Details

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Mark Cicirelli

When I was a kid I blew the fuse in my parents' house—a lot. I had turned the basement into my "laboratory," where I spent far too many late nights poring through science books, building gadgets, and using a lot of electricity. I was sure I'd be an engineer.... View Details

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