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Semifinalists Announced for Fall 2023 Skandalaris Venture Competition

Thirty Washington University startups have been named as semifinalists in the fall 2023 Skandalaris Venture Competition (SVC), where they are competing for a chance to win up to $25,000 in funding. Each venture is founded by students or recent alumni.

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The Grass Was Actually Greener: Finding My Future in Industry

I became fascinated with science years ago after I read an article describing research as being “productively stupid.” There is something particularly motivating about being on the edge of our collective knowledge- realizing that while I don’t know the answer,

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Personalized Treatments for Brain Disorders Through Innovative Software Tools

Over the past decade, we’ve witnessed remarkable scientific breakthroughs in fields likecomputer vision and image processing. However, translating these innovations into practicalapplications in medical diagnostics is a meticulous and time-consuming process, requiringyears of refinement and multiple iterations. This delay is

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My Summer Internship at Swipesum

My name is Finn Doornweerd, and I am a rising sophomore majoring in computer science with a minor in systems engineering. This summer, I worked at Swipesum, which is a payments consulting company that works to reduce and eliminate credit

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Above All, Relationships: My Summer Internship with Good Developments Group

Everyone has one topic they could ramble on and on about. For me, it’s the history of city planning and urban design in the United States and the many mistakes we’ve made as a nation. Decisions made generations ago still

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