Hometown: Abilene, KS 

Major and Minor: Major: Biotechnology / Minor: Business 

Internship title and organization: Undergraduate Research Assistant, Institute for Bioengineering Research Dr. Candan Tamerler. 

What were your responsibilities during the internship? My responsibilities during the internship were to help my mentors with various projects, collect data, and present the data and scientific techniques during group lab meetings.

Preferred Name: Everyone calls me A-A-Ron, but Aaron works too!

Major(s) & Minor(s): I’m not going to lie, I’ve been jumping around in the Biology field quite a bit, but I’m currently majoring in microbiology pre-medicine.

Where are you from? And why did you choose to come to KU? 

I’m from El Paso, Texas originally, but as a child we moved quite a bit and settled in Newton, Kansas. My mother wanted me to stay in state and study Engineering. KU had all of those and the distance from home made it the best fit.

Hometown: Fairway, Ks 

Majors and minor: Psychology and Strategic Communications, Spanish (minor) 

Internship title and organization: volunteer, Van Go 

Program of study and year: History doctoral program, starting my fourth year Hometown: Mountain Home, Arkansas What are your research interests and why did you choose them?  My research focuses on the Holocaust and the history of modern Russia and Eastern Europe. I became interested in these fields from a really young age, in 5^th grade.

Hometown: Garden City, KS 

Major(s) / Minor(s): Political Science, pre-Law, and Business (minor) 

Internship title and organization: Government Transformation and Agency Partnership Intern, Partnership for Public Service. 

What are your research interests and why did you choose them? 

It's hard to believe that Zoya Khan hasn't been involved in politics all of her life. Since arriving at KU she's served as a student senator, president of the Muslim Student Association, diversity, equity & inclusion ambassador for the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, and has been a member of KU Students for Refugees,  the Dole Institute Student Advisory Board and International Studies Services.

Majors: Law & Society, Applied Behavioral Science, and Spanish

Majors: Global and International Studies and History

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Why did you choose your majors and minors?

I have, from a very early age, been interested in politics and history. I was a junior in high school when the September 11th Attacks took place, and after that, I was determined to pursue these interests as a career.

How do your majors and minors complement one another?