Undergrad at WashU studying bio on a pre-med track || From Los Angeles, CA || Interested in current social issues in medicine especially relevant to both LA and STL
Synapse is WashU’s premier neuroscience organization, but, although it may seem like it may be focused heavily on science and pre-med topics, I can say firsthand as a member of Synapse for three years that it is a student group with a plethora of opportunities for everyone to get involved in. For instance, I’ve been…
When Alfred Nobel suffered a stroke and drew his last breath in 1896, it was a surprise to the world that the infamous weapons manufacturer and hated dynamite inventor had signed into his will that his amassed fortune would go toward establishing a prize for the most distinguished scientists, peacemakers, and writers around the world….
As summer approaches, it is inevitable that young music enthusiasts all across the country will once again flock to the many annual electronic dance music concerts, colloquially known as EDM festivals or raves, that take place all over the United States. These types of fair-like festivals, characteristic of multiple concert stages and hundreds of performers…
By this time next year, physician-assisted suicide will have become legally permissible in California. Just last October, bill ABX2-15, the California End of Life Option Act, was signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown, allowing for a patient with a terminal illness to “request for a drug prescribed pursuant […] for the purpose of ending…