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GFF Alumnus Evan Wiggs Studies Astrophysics at Columbia University.

GFF Alumnus Evan Wiggs Studies Astrophysics at Columbia University.

by Admin | Oct 16, 2025 | News, Where Are They Now? — 2025

Evan says that after settling in, he is “walking the streets like an official, very busy New Yorker.”

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Celebrating GFF alumni who have recently graduated from high school.

Celebrating GFF alumni who have recently graduated from high school.

by Admin | Jun 2, 2025 | News, Where Are They Now? — 2025

The students talk about their future educational plans and how GFF programs have shaped their career paths.

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GFF Alumnus Elaina Xiao attends University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

GFF Alumnus Elaina Xiao attends University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

by Admin | Oct 30, 2023 | Where Are They Now? — 2023

We have heard from GFF Alumnus Elaina Xiao who is currently attending her first semester at UIUC.

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Yoonseo Jung named 2024 Coca Cola Scholars Semi-Finalist!

Yoonseo Jung named 2024 Coca Cola Scholars Semi-Finalist!

by Admin | Oct 16, 2023 | Where Are They Now? — 2023

We are proud to report that GFF Alumnus Yoonseo Jung has been selected as a 2024 Coca Cola Scholars Semi-finalist!

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GFF Alumnus Michelle Wang begins her first semester at MIT.

GFF Alumnus Michelle Wang begins her first semester at MIT.

by Admin | Oct 6, 2023 | Where Are They Now? — 2023

We have heard from GFF Alumnus Michelle Wang who is attending her first semester at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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GFF Alumnus Lauren Fakhoury begins her first semester at NYU.

GFF Alumnus Lauren Fakhoury begins her first semester at NYU.

by Admin | Oct 1, 2023 | Where Are They Now? — 2023

We have received news from GFF Alumnus Lauren Fakhoury, who has returned to New York City where she is currently attending NYU.

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GFF Celebrates 2023 IMSA Graduates!

GFF Celebrates 2023 IMSA Graduates!

by Admin | May 26, 2023 | Where Are They Now? — 2023

The Garwin Family Foundation honors our alumni scholarship program recipients—Lauren Fakhoury, Jason Qin, and Elaina Xiao—who have recently graduated from the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA).

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GFF Student Scholarship Recipient Yoonseo Jung performs at Carnegie Hall!

GFF Student Scholarship Recipient Yoonseo Jung performs at Carnegie Hall!

by Admin | Apr 14, 2023 | Where Are They Now? — 2023

As a participant in the American Protégé Piano and Strings Competition, Yoonseo Jung performed the “Un Sospiro” Etude by Franz Liszt at Carnegie Hall in New York City on Sunday, April 9, 2023.

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GFF Alumnus Michelle Wang qualifies for the 2023 Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair!

GFF Alumnus Michelle Wang qualifies for the 2023 Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair!

by Admin | Apr 10, 2023 | Where Are They Now? — 2023

We are excited to announce that Michelle Wang will participate in the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair to be held in Dallas, Texas on May 14-19, 2023.

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GFF Alumnus Yoonseo Jung has been selected as concertmaster for the ILMEA All-State Orchestra

GFF Alumnus Yoonseo Jung has been selected as concertmaster for the ILMEA All-State Orchestra

by Admin | Jan 16, 2023 | Where Are They Now? — 2023

We are proud to announce that GFF Alumnus Yoonseo Jung was selected as concertmaster for the Illinois Music Education Association (ILMEA) All-State Orchestra. The Illinois Music Education (All-State) Conference was held January 25-28, 2023, in Peoria, Illinois.

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  • GFF Alumnus Evan Wiggs Studies Astrophysics at Columbia University.
  • Liam Batteau attends a summer immersion jazz workshop at Stanford University.
  • Mollie Mandell studies “Biology and Its Modern Applications” at the University of Chicago Summer Immersion Program.
  • Alexei Kadyrov attends the Washington University Research Development Institute.
  • Alexei Kadyrov studies Combinatorics 1.5 at AwesomeMath
  • Ryan Dai attends the Summer@Brown Pre-College Program.
  • Zoya Chowdhury studies “Explorations in Neuroscience” at the University of Chicago Summer Immersion Program.

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Words of Wisdom

“The wisest mind has something yet to learn.”

— George Santayana

“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

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

— Aristotle

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

— Plutarch

“Stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it.”

— Frank McCourt

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes

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

— Aristotle

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

— Geraldine Brooks, March

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

— Marcus Aurelius

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

— Rene Descartes

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

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— W. Clement Stone

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

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

— Edmund Burke

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

— Malcolm Forbes

“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

“Learning never exhausts the mind.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.”

— Albert Camus

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

— Theodore Roosevelt, October 1915
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