Student Stories
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Tran Quoc Bao
College of Engineering and Computer Science
Bao grew up in a small fishing village with his elder sister and two parent in northern Vietnam called Nam Dinh. His father is a fisherman and his mother is a tailor. In 8th grade one of his teachers recommended he compete in the province physics competition. He achieved the highest score in his district […]
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Hannah Yeboah
College of Health Sciences
Hannah grew up in Cape Coast, Ghana with her 6 siblings and her father who was a security guard and her mother sold food in the local market. Hannah had a strong sense of responsibility for supporting her family after her father passed away. She completed her first Bachelor’s degree in Education, but changed paths […]
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Nguyen Huu Loc
College of Health Sciences
Loc grew up in Quang Tri in central Vietnam with his parents and three siblings. His parents were laborers in the rice fields. He enjoyed making toys from items in the woods and fishing as a children He attended a small and not well ranked grade school where his teachers saw his talent and referred […]
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Le Dinh Nam
College of Engineering and Computer Science
Nam grew up in Vung Tau in Southern Vietnam, where he developed a deep love for mathematics at age 5. He would ask his parents to take him for a walk so he could read the numbers on the houses in his neighbourhood. In grade 5, he earned his first bronze medal in the V-Olympic […]
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Nguyen Thi Thuy Dung
College of Health Sciences
Thuy Dung grew up in Phan Thiet, a small coastal town in Central Vietnam, with her parents and 2 siblings. Her mother was a primary school teacher (now retired) and her father is a high school math teacher. With two parents as teachers, Thuy Dung always valued education. She won the Gold Medal in Chess […]
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Chinenye Susan Ekwebelem
College of Health Sciences
Susan grew up in Lagos Nigeria in an extended family of nurses (auntie and 3 cousins) who pursued nursing training and job opportunities in the US. All the federal universities in Nigeria went on a national strike in her final year of study. Susan did not want to delay her education and pursued international schools. […]
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Tran Ngoc Tran
College of Health Sciences
Tran’s upbringing in Hanoi unfolded amidst the challenges posed by severe alcohol use disorders spanning several generations within her family. With her mother serving as a college lecturer and her father incapacitated due to his disorder, Tran witnessed the debilitating impact on her family, including her grandfather’s stroke, her uncle’s demise from cirrhosis and hepatic […]
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Tran Ngoc Ha
College of Arts and Sciences
Ha grew up in a family of three children in Hanoi. Her father is an engineer and her mother works in Communications at the US embassy. Both parents were dedicated to providing the best education possible to their children according to their economic ability. Ha developed a proficiency in English from her mother. Ha was […]
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