Nick Farmer is a junior studying Interactive Entertainment and Theatrical Scenic Design at the University of Southern California. He is an aspiring professional insomniac and production designer who spends his free time preoccupied with his two greatest loves: cooking and Disney theme park expansion rumors. Outside of living in a holodeck, where a player acts out an … [Read more...] about What’s On the Screen (and Beyond): From Abstraction to Realism in Game Art
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Science, Censorship, and Security: Mammalian-Transmissible H5N1 and the Dual Use Dilemma”
Otana Jakpor is a senior double majoring in Global Health and Biological Sciences, with plans to matriculate into medical school in the fall. When she is not happily harmonizing with Overflow A Cappella or dutifully delving into rigorous readings, she enjoys injecting as much alliteration as practically possible into her prose (frequently to her friends’ … [Read more...] about Science, Censorship, and Security: Mammalian-Transmissible H5N1 and the Dual Use Dilemma”
Male Circumcision: Should It Make The Cut?
Diem-Tran (Bijou) Nguyen is a senior at USC pursuing a major in history and minor in natural science. She plans on attending medical school after graduation. She is originally from Huntington Beach and is the oldest of four children. She loves working with children and animals, trying new places to eat, and traveling. Though the … [Read more...] about Male Circumcision: Should It Make The Cut?
To Take or Not To Take: The Ethics in Harvesting Cadaver Organs
Nethika Ariyasinghe is from Waco, Texas. She graduated with her BS in Biomedical Engineering in May 2013 and currently is a Ph.D student in Biomedical Engineering at USC. In her free time, she enjoys running and exploring Los … [Read more...] about To Take or Not To Take: The Ethics in Harvesting Cadaver Organs
WEIRD SCIENCE: Robots in Healthcare
Robots are pretty awesome. Most people have an idea of robots formed by popular culture representations, but the direction the actual robotics world is traveling has less flash and more pragmatism. Science fiction has long focused on philosophical questions of the essence of humanity and the moral qualms involved in creating an automaton that can ‘feel.’ However, robotic … [Read more...] about WEIRD SCIENCE: Robots in Healthcare