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Prathik Naidu: Indian American’s innovation helps analyse cancer DNA

by Charu Thakur | Jul 3, 2024

(July 3, 2024) For someone keen to become a scientist, Indian American Prathik Naidu jumped on the bandwagon at an early age when at age 17, he won $70,000 in the Regeneron Science Talent Search for developing DNALoopR. “What I essentially did was built an...

Colouring the world happy: Artist Rishika Karthik is using tactile art to help the visually impaired students

by Namrata Srivastava | Aug 6, 2022

(August 6, 2022) About five minutes into the video call with Rishika Karthik, I notice a beautiful painting hanging right behind her. Depicting several masked people, a small note on the canvas read, “I’m not fine.” Upon enquiring about the piece,...

De‘coding’ tech: Berkeley sophomore Krish Samtani’s 0Gravity turns geeks into pro coders

by ranjani | Mar 4, 2022

(March 4, 2022) Did you know that IT’s top brass like Larry Page, Bill Gates, and Steve Dorsey were all coding prodigies before they launched ground-breaking tech conglomerates? Not too long ago, coding was considered the forte of computer geeks, an intimidating...