Tag Archives: Students

Student’s open brain surgery livestreamed while she was AWAKE

Brave student, 25, livestreamed her own open brain surgery while lying awake on the operating table to guide surgeons around her mind’s language center to remove a blood vessel tangle Jenna Schardt, 25, was diagnosed with a cavernoma after suddenly suffering a seizure while helping stroke patients during her occupational therapy program A cavernoma is… Read More »

Students eat junk. Can science help?

For 10 weeks, five days a week, four hours a day, three years ago, Matheus Mistura, a decorated grad student with a glittering academic career, stood next to a hot table in a cramped cafeteria peeping at students’ plates. On cold days and on hot, on rainy days and clear days and days when he’d… Read More »