I dove into the second quarter of my environmental justice project by delving into the history of the movement and examining the timelessness of environmental racism.
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I dove into the second quarter of my environmental justice project by delving into the history of the movement and examining the timelessness of environmental racism.
There’s an introspection that occurs when you write and discover things about your past that start to combine into a complex tapestry of trauma, pain, but also humor and light. This is not what I set out to do initially when I began the MFA in Bilingual Creative Writing at UTEP, but it’s something that has emerged through my first two years in the program. I have more insight into my thought process, and the memories that are welling up don’t plague me as much.
In the first quarter of my project, “Understanding and Alleviating Environmental Inequality in Underprivileged Communities,” I was able to explore different facets of the fight for environmental justice while contributing to the efforts in my local community.
March 16, 2020 Dear Fellow Alumni and Friends, Please know that you are in our thoughts as the world comes to grips with the COVID-19 pandemic. We hope you, your families, and friends remain safe and healthy. The Caltech community is working diligently to ensure the...
Caltech has awarded the second annual Milton and Rosalind Chang Career Exploration Prize to one undergraduate alumna, Preethi Periyakoil (BS ’18, Computer Science) and one graduate alumna, Nicole Tetreault (PhD ’13, Biology). Periyakoil received the Chang Prize for her proposed project “University Support Text Line,” and Tetreault received the prize to work on her project “Beyond the Cell.”
March 11, 2020 With great concern for the health and well-being of our campus community and Caltech alumni worldwide, we, the Caltech Alumni Association (CAA) leadership, are strategically canceling several CAA events in response to COVID-19. Caltech Alumni event...
Alumni News, Chang Prize, Kyle Lakatos, Sean McKenna
Enjoy a conversation with the 2018 Chang Prize recipients, Sean McKenna (BS ’17, Economics and Applied and Computational Mathematics) and Kyle Lakatos (MS ’14, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics), as originally broadcast on July 24, 2019.
The Caltech Alumni Association is proud to recognize six alumni who have been named National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Fellows in 2019: Rena Bizios (MS ’71) Francis Joseph Doyle III (PhD ’91) Dean B. Edwards (MS ’73, PhD ’77) Julia A. Kornfield (BS ’83) Yiannis A....
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