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...
by Charu Thakur | Jun 23, 2024
(June 23, 2024) It was in the spring of 2010 that the world woke up on the morning of April 20 to an environmental disaster – the largest marine oil spill in history – the Deepwater Horizon oil spill off the coast of the United States in the Gulf of...
by Charu Thakur | Jun 5, 2024
(June 5, 2024) A few days ago, Bruhat Soma found himself in a whirlwind of confetti as the audience erupted in cheers, as he became the 28th Indian American to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee. The 12-year-old from Tampa in Florida spelled 29 words correctly out...
by Charu Thakur | May 25, 2024
(May 25, 2024) Each summer New Hampshire-based Deepika Kurup along with her family travelled to India and the only way to beat the scorching heat was to drink plenty of water. But her parents always warned her to have only boiled or bottled water. “Because...
by Charu Thakur | May 21, 2024
(May 21, 2024) 2020 had just begun and things were getting difficult for California boy Karun Kaushik as a delayed pneumonia treatment due to an inaccurate diagnosis nearly cost him his mother’s life. The harrowing experience put him face-to-face with Covid-19...
