Fall 2020

Eric Stone says he feels as busy as a one-armed paperhanger most days. He produces one to three daily news stories for the people of Ketchikan, Alaska, an island town with a …
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Sugar Land native Trishna Narula is back in Houston after spending the better part of a decade away. An only child of two doctors, Narula grew up playing with her …
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Cortlan Wickliff’s book, “Young and Driven: Overdrive,” published in 2017, is a blueprint of exercises and lessons learned on how to succeed in life. And he should know. At a …
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The murder of former Houston resident George Floyd in late May struck a chord with Summar McGee and Sonia Torres Rodríguez, as it did for so many people around the world. 

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When you speak with Raj Salhotra about his mission to improve opportunities for under-resourced students, your first response is to ask where to sign up to help. The focus of …
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Violinist Chelsea Sharpe has performed at Carnegie Hall and the Hollywood Bowl and has been conducted by everyone from John Williams to Kanye West. As a fellow at the New …
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As an electrical engineering major, Vivas Kumar learned a lot about batteries and energy storage for electricity. This knowledge came in handy after graduation, when he joined Tesla’s battery materials team …
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In March, Kim Rightor was a year and a half into her Peace Corps stint when she and more than 7,000 other volunteers were evacuated due to COVID-19 — the first …
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Shaan Patel is only 28 years old, but his resume reads like one that belongs to a seasoned professional — he’s an architectural designer, owns a design and construction firm, …
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Estevan Delgado was just months away from graduation when he felt called to change his life’s course. 

Though he had long planned to become a physician, Delgado began reconsidering what …
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