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Phu Duong’s career in biology is well underway.

After successfully defending his master’s thesis at �����о��� over the summer, he has begun a Ph.D. program in Cell and Molecular Pathology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. There, he hopes to become involved in the field of epigenetics, which is the study of changes in gene activity that are not caused by changes in the DNA sequence. Translation: The guy is smart.

Every morning after breakfast, Chielezona Eze, associate professor of English at �����о���, spends three hours reading and writing. “Those are holy hours,” Eze said.

Mass shootings are contagious.

That was the headline-grabbing conclusion of a research project that Maryam Khan began working on when she was a senior at �����о���. Almost as soon as the paper was published by journal in July 2015, lead researcher ’ phone began to ring with calls from news outlets such as NBC, NPR and The Washington Post.

Campoverdi, author of “First Gen: A Memoir,” will speak at �����о���n’s Commencement on May 10.