Reba Carethers has taken on poverty, diabetes, AIDS and prenatal care during her time at the School of Nursing, but she’s just getting started. In May and June 2012, the Angleton, Texas, native traveled to Ghana to work with pregnancy / maternal and child health programs, where she helped to...

The main thing you need to know about Boulder, Colo., native Will Berdanier is that he’s an NAUI-certified Master Scuba Diver. Oh, and he’s very good at violin, is an Eagle Scout, has been a leader on campus and is by all accounts a really nice guy. Almost forgot: He’s done cutting-edge research...

Leon Dean had been working on “block copolymers,” self-assembling nanomaterials that can be used to pattern silicon wafers, for more than a year. But he knew only failure in trying to get them them to self-assemble into the right pattern — before it finally happened. “For the first time I saw...