Program of study and year: 3rd year Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History
Hometown: Garden City, KS
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 5th 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?
There are some things that you just know you will always love doing. These passions shape your choices in college, and lead you to the type of work that makes you happy and fulfilled. For Megan Hansen, it was always science. And a future as a physician is now firmly on the horizon for this biology major and pre-medicine student.
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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