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From Rural Nepal to The Johns Hopkins University (and back again): Part 2

January 6, 2021

Johns Hopkins University postdoc Surya C. shares insight into the challenges of being an international student and how he hopes to inspire the next generation of scientists.

Ashton Omdahl ⋅ A Day in the Life international students, Postdoc ⋅

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International Students Face an Extra Hurdle during COVID-19

June 16, 2020

Read how the COVID-19 pandemic could have extreme consequences for international students in the U.S.

Bernat Navarro-Serer ⋅ Perspectives in Research coronavirus, immigration, international students, politics ⋅

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From Rural Nepal to the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine: Part 1

March 18, 2020

Around the time I started working in my thesis lab, a new postdoc from central Nepal, named Surya, also joined the group. He had just completed his Ph.D. in Huntsville, Alabama, as part of the ENCODE consortium project to annotate the human genome and was assigned to work with me on a project developing polygenic […]

Ashton Omdahl ⋅ A Day in the Life international students ⋅

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