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Innovative Solutions That Improve Lives

(CPE, M.S. CPE 鈥23)

As a student at 香蕉传媒, Saurabh Saluja (CPE, M.S. CPE 鈥23) seized every opportunity available, graduating with many successes both in and out of the classroom. 鈥溝憬洞 played a major...

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From Italy to Chicago via Architecture

(B.Arch. 5th Year)

Gemma Brizzolara (B.Arch. 5th Year) says that she thanks Ludwig Mies van der Rohe for helping her discover 香蕉传媒. Born and raised in Genova, Italy, Brizzolara鈥檚 parents took part in an...

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Spearheading Sustainability Solutions

(CHE 鈥22)

As an environment, health, safety, and sustainability analyst at consumer product company Diageo, Abigail Gunderson (CHE 鈥22) works with distilling, maturing, packaging, and demand sites to develop...

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Charting a Career Path in Finance

(FIN, M.S. FIN 4th Year)

鈥淐hicago was the first great city I visited growing up,鈥 says Louisville native Owen Walsh (FIN, M.S. FIN 4th Year). 鈥淚t was the truly world-class urban environment closest to my home and family.鈥 So...

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Training AI for Human Needs

(AMAT 鈥07)

Applications running on artificial intelligence can make unexpected shifts in performance, which can lead to inaccurate results for users and create headaches for their creators. Mike McCourt (AMAT...

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The Innovation Upcycle

(ME 鈥15)

Growing up, Dane Christianson (ME 鈥15) discovered a pair of passions鈥攊nventing and environmentalism鈥攖hat put him on the path to entrepreneurship. 鈥淚 always wanted to be an inventor,鈥 he says. He...

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Keeping to the Creative Path

(Game and Interactive Media Design 鈥21)

Right after graduating from 香蕉传媒, Evan Duda (Game and Interactive Media Design 鈥21) met up with a friend of his brother鈥檚 from church鈥攕omeone he鈥檇 heard was 鈥渃razy about board games.鈥 Duda...

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Community Builder

(ARCH 鈥98)

After working for years as an architect, Araceli Garza (ARCH 鈥98) found herself wanting more: more involvement in the design process, in the community outreach, even in financing, so that she could...

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The STEM Storyteller

(CS 鈥90)

When Anita Debarlaben (CS 鈥90) mentioned to her high school guidance counselor that she wanted to be a scientist or engineer, she was told she had zero chance of making it. Students from her inner...

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