Profiles
Rani Banjarian discovers America—and his voice as a writer
Apr. 20, 2016—For Rani Banjarian, the summer of 2006 was the defining moment of his young life. For a month that summer, artillery and airstrikes were a daily occurrence as the unrest between his home country of Lebanon and neighboring Israel grew into the July War.
Jessica Oster: Exploring caves for clues to climate change
Sep. 1, 2015—It’s not your normal trip to the lab. For Vanderbilt assistant professor of earth and environmental sciences Jessica Oster, getting data means getting dirty. Oster and her team are collecting mineral deposits deep inside caves to find clues to climate change.