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(Ph.D. CHE ’10)

If you try to list all the potential combinations of all the elements on the periodic table, you’ll have a list that’s practically infinite. To date, humanity has only characterized about a million of...

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(M.ARCH. ’06)

The first gig Jennifer Kolstad (M.ARCH. ’06) landed after graduating was a tad more trying than your typical entry-level job. “There were bombs flying overhead,†Kolstad says of her time flying into...

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LAW '09

Editor's note: this is a story from the the Fall 2025 Âé¶¹APP-Kent Magazine. To read the magazine in full, follow this link . “When I started [my firm] Incubate IP, if you typed in ‘patent law advice’...

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LAW '97

Editor's note: this is a story from the the Fall 2025 Âé¶¹APP-Kent Magazine. To read the magazine in full, follow this link . “We have about 65 lawyers and 13 Âé¶¹APP-Kent College of Law grads, so...

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(B.ARCH. ’13)

After working as an architect for several years, Leticia Arzuaga (B.ARCH. ’13) attended a team building exercise in which she was asked, “What’s your dream?†Coming up with an answer turned out to be...

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(LAW ’78)

When other mayors ask Jeffrey Sherwin (LAW ’78) how he’s been elected to office for eight terms—and has run unopposed in the town of Northlake, Illinois, for the last seven—he says the answer is...

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(MDes ’03)

Jon Friedman (MDes ’03) had been interning as a designer at Microsoft for many months before being pulled into a so-called “interview loop,†a process where he would undergo interview after interview...

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