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Katya Chyzhyk studies “Genetic Detectives: Stray Cats Paternity and Predator Trails” at the Vanderbilt University Summer Institute.

Katya Chyzhyk studies “Genetic Detectives: Stray Cats Paternity and Predator Trails” at the Vanderbilt University Summer Institute.

Aug 2, 2026 | News

“We began with some lab basics and learned how to use micropipettes—specifically how to set them to draw different amounts of liquid and convert between microliters and milliliters,” Katya reports.

David Johnson studies Environmental Science at the Washington University Pre-College Program.

David Johnson studies Environmental Science at the Washington University Pre-College Program.

Jul 26, 2026 | News

David says that he has been enjoying his first week, and has “learned so much from talking to people from both regional and international backgrounds, and I’m pleased to say I’ve already made some new friends.”

Takamichi Miyoshi studies Graph Theory at the Michigan Math and Science Scholars Program.

Takamichi Miyoshi studies Graph Theory at the Michigan Math and Science Scholars Program.

Jul 25, 2026 | News

Takamichi reports that although the course is the most rigorous academic program he has ever attended, it has been a great learning opportunity and has helped him to grow as a student.

Mollie Mandell attends Southern Illinois University as a Summer Research Intern in the Mass Spectometry Laboratory.

Mollie Mandell attends Southern Illinois University as a Summer Research Intern in the Mass Spectometry Laboratory.

Jul 21, 2026 | News

“I spent the first weeks of summer researching mass spectrometry, which was a field I had not known much about. I found that it was not as daunting as I originally thought, and my excitement to apply my newfound knowledge increased,” Molly explains.

Isabella Dai studies Neuroimaging: Seeing the Brain in Action at the Michigan Math and Science Scholars Program.

Isabella Dai studies Neuroimaging: Seeing the Brain in Action at the Michigan Math and Science Scholars Program.

Jul 20, 2026 | News

“During my first week at the University of Michigan’s Neuroscience course, I had the opportunity to explore the fundamentals of the brain through both classroom learning and hands-on activities,” Isabella says.

Anne Popit studies Neuroscience at the University of Notre Dame Summer Scholars Program.

Anne Popit studies Neuroscience at the University of Notre Dame Summer Scholars Program.

Jul 14, 2026 | News

Anne Popit reports that her first week at the Notre Dame Summer Scholar’s Program where she is studying “Neuroscience: Understanding the Human Body’s Command Center” has been “incredible.”

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“One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“To know a man’s library is, in some measure, to know a man’s mind.”

— Geraldine Brooks, March

“An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.”

— Albert Camus

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.”

— Plutarch

“To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.”

— Khalil Gibran

“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”

— W. Clement Stone

“All the resources we need are in the mind.”

— Theodore Roosevelt, October 1915

“Nothing is at last sacred but the quality of your own mind.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”

— Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes

“The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind is curiosity.”

— Edmund Burke

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

— Aristotle

“It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.”

— Rene Descartes

“The wisest mind has something yet to learn.”

— George Santayana

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”

— Winston Churchill

“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.”

— Aristotle

“The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”

— Malcolm Forbes

“You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their
opinions, they cease to be mind.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Learning never exhausts the mind.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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— Frank McCourt
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