I'm thrilled to have this sample syllabus out there in the world! Big thanks to the great @ashleythesmart.bsky.social for helping shape the syllabus, for doing so much of the heavy lifting in creating discussion questions and potential classroom assignments, and for his all-around excellent ideas.

Just before boarding a plane to Cambridge for the fellowship, Yarden Michaeli (KSJ '25) published "Road to Redemption." That project is now shortlisted by the European Press Prize for an award in the innovation category: www.europeanpressprize.com/article/road...

Ambiental Media, founded by Thiago Medaglia (KSJ '20), just launched the "Extreme Rainfall Vulnerability Index for Rio de Janeiro" — a tool using satellite imagery and AI to identify where the city is most vulnerable to floods and landslides. See what they found: rio60.ambiental.media/en/

Over the past few years, my work has orbited one central question: What does it mean to live at the cutting edge of science, experiencing a disease researchers don't fully understand? This story, my latest for Undark, probably comes closest to describing what that's like: undark.org/2025/03/03/m...