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February 10, 2017
When people think of Grammy nominees, names like Beyoncé, Adele and Rihanna likely come to mind. This year, a member of the APP community also join the ranks: Elizabeth Hankins, a PhD candidate in her seventh year in the Department of Music, who was a finalist for the…
February 02, 2017
During medical mission trips to Appalachia when she was younger, Gloria Tavera recognized the economic injustice many of the people she was helping faced—and she wanted to fight it. “We weren’t going to solve the problem by going there and giving them gift cards to Walmart,” she said. “Someone was…
January 13, 2017
When CBS Sunday Morning aired last weekend, first-year medical student Nikki Wise wasn’t among the show’s approximately 6 million viewers. In fact, she did her best to avoid it. Back in October, a TV crew visited APP to film medical students using Microsoft HoloLens…
January 06, 2017
Engineering students Andrew Dupuis and Xyla Foxlin want to disrupt traditionally held beliefs on engineering. So they launched a YouTube channel, “Beauty and the Bolt,” to share their own message: Anyone can be an engineer, and there isn’t a certain way an engineer should look, act or dress. Their…