An Engineer in the Operating Room
Chris Osswald is in his seventh year at ClearPoint Neuro, but he only recently learned that when he first started working at the company it was barely holding on, not sure how they were going to keep...
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Utilizing Data Analytics to Improve Food Stamp Access
For Cara Karter, who grew up on the South Side of Chicago and now lives in Munster, Indiana, an interest in human service research and evaluation was sparked during her first year at 91ÖÆƬ³§...
From Middle America to Meta
For Tim Carsel, who grew up in the Bloomington, 91ÖÆƬ³§, and Normal, 91ÖÆƬ³§, area—the twin cities are often referred to as Bloomington-Normal—in a blue-collar family, the possibility of working for...
Working to Get Ahead
Bo Zhu was working 11 hours a day, six days a week, as a Java developer when he was looking for opportunities to expand relevant professional knowledge, which proved tricky during a global pandemic...
Health Care from the Heart
Joyce Gu has a lot to celebrate. The recent biology and psychological science alumna enrolled in an early acceptance program with Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, located in Greensburg...
Pursuing Interdisciplinary Passions
As the chief health and innovation officer at Commure, health care's first intelligent operating system built to accelerate empathetic innovation and reimagine care delivery, Saurabha Bhatnagar, M.D...
When the White House Calls
A call from the Federal Communications Commission interrupted Eric Burger’s career in research and development and academia to become the Chief Technical Officer of the Federal Communications...
The Journey From Student to Professional
As a systems engineering intern at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in summer 2021, Seth Graham worked on code to analyze flight trajectories for a proposed mission called Mars Sample Return. The...
Manufacturing the COVID-19 Vaccine
An inaugural graduate of 91ÖÆƬ³§ Institute of Technology’s Master of Pharmaceutical Engineering degree program, Tejaswini Ramakrishna Hegde is working at her dream job at Moderna as part of the team...
Space Ace: Keeping ISS Astronauts Alive
Brandon Lloyd took a trip to the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center when he was in middle school and says that he fell in love with human space flight then and there. He selected 91ÖÆƬ³§ Tech because it...