Grappling up Mountains in Greece

We started the day by attending a fascinating lecture at the Athens campus of University of Nicosia, where Professor Yiannis Sarigiannis introduced us to the future potential of peptides. We learned how venom-derived peptides can be modified and transformed into useful medications by altering their structure, allowing scientists to turn naturally toxic compounds into targeted…

ελπιδοφόρο μέλλον

Before I answer how history has affected my perspective on the future I would like to share some photos of my travels. In the last several days in Greece, I learned that there is so much more to history, culture, and communication than what many think. Exploring Athens, the Acropolis, museums, as well as preparing…

Lamda is more then just wavelength!(Day 2)

First of all today we started by going on an interesting historical tour of center city Athens. This included old and contemporary history as we were guided to places like dig sites and The Plaka. One of the highlights of my day was visiting the company Lamda in Greece, in which we were able to…

Day 1: Larping in Ellinikon

Two things that I will always remember today are firstly the tour to the University of Nicosia Campus at Greece, where we were provided with an opportunity to visit the building and see the cutting-edge gene sequencing technology that works fast. We also toured numerous laboratories including those for hospital-based studies and the ones for…

1..2..3 Say Greece

Hello, my name is Michael Timm, and I am a freshman at the University of Pittsburgh’s Swanson School of Engineering(originally from Allentown, PA), where I have recently declared my major in Industrial Engineering. My journey to the IISE department has been fueled by a lifelong passion for playing optimization-themed video games such as Satisfactory or…