FUTURE 2020
Monday, October 5, 2020 – 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm PST
Follow-Up Workshop: Getting into Graduate School, Part 2
The focus for this workshop is to provide an overview for preparing your application material and the opportunity for discussion about any current drafts you have. We encourage you to prepare a draft of your personal statement or CV and share it for comments. Everyone participating understands that these are working copies, not a final version. You’ll need to have a copy of the document ready on your computer to share with your small group.
Tuesday, September 15, 2020 – 1:00 pm to 5:30 pm PST
FUTURE 2020 was our third cohort and our first virtual conference. This year’s conference provided an introduction to life as a Caltech graduate student. Programming included short science talks and “day in a life” discussions from current students, panels with current students and faculty covering topics ranging from challenges, research topics, building community, the application process, and more.
Getting in to Graduate School, Part 2
Follow-up Workshop on October 5 from 1:00 to 2:30 PST
The focus for this workshop is to provide an overview for preparing your application material and the opportunity for discussion about any current drafts you have. We encourage you to prepare a draft of your personal statement or CV and share it for comments. Everyone participating understands that these are working copies, not a final version. You’ll need to have a copy of the document ready on your computer to share with your small group.
Schedule
Welcome from Shreya Anand, FUTURE co-chair
1:00 to 1:30 Presentation by Lilien Voong from Caltech’s Hixon Writing Center
Here are links to the documents included in the presentation
- Approaching the Graduate School Statement of Purpose
- Additional resources are available on the Hixon Writing Center website
- Check the FUTURE resources page
1:30 to 2:30 We’ll move into breakout rooms. These are small groups, about 6 participants with two Caltech volunteers per group. Participants will be able to share draft versions of their application materials with current Caltech graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and members of the Hixson Writing Center for discussion and feedback.
2020 Agenda
Video Content
2020 Attendees
Below you will find the names, contact info, and undergraduate institutions of the 2019 FUTURE cohort.
Name | Undergrad Institution | Year | |
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Jea Adams | Amherst College | jadams21@amherst.edu | Senior |
Erica Albrigo | Northeastern Illinois University | Senior | |
Mouza Almualla | American University of Sharjah | mouzaalmuallaa@gmail.com | Senior |
Isha Anantpurkar | Cornell University | Senior | |
Galit Anikeeva | |||
Karina Barboza | University of California, Los Angeles | barbozakarina@ucla.edu | Senior |
Gauri Batra | Cornell University | Junior | |
Daphne Blumin | University of Michigan | daphneb@umich.edu | Senior |
Bella Brann | Virginia Tech | Junior | |
Chessy Chen | University of California, Santa Barbara | siyuanchen@ucsb.edu | Junior |
Junyi Cheng | University of California, Santa Barbara | junyi_cheng@ucsb.edu | Junior |
Sabrina Cheng | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | chengsy@mit.edu | |
Jessica Chisholm | University of Pittsburgh | JEC240@pitt.edu | Junior |
Sofia Covarrubias | California State University, Los Angeles | scovarru@caltech.edu | Junior |
Sarah Edwards | University of California, Davis | ||
Nicole Firestone | The Pennsylvania State University | nicolemfirestone3@gmail.com | Senior |
Jocelyn Fischer | University of California, Riverside | Senior | |
Ericka Florio | Kenyon College | ||
Yadira Gaibor | Missouri State University | Senior | |
Annie Gao | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | boregao2@illinois.edu | Senior |
Yifan Geng | University of Southern California | yifangen@usc.edu | Senior |
Isabella Giovanneli | Virginia Tech | izelgio@vt.edu | Senior |
Nayab Gohar | Government College University, Lahore | nayab.gohar9@gmail.com | Senior |
Kate Gold | Bryn Mawr College | krgold@brynmawr.edu | Senior |
Zoë Haggard | Pomona College | zaha2017@mymail.pomona.edu | Senior |
Page Harrison | University of Pittsburgh | page.harrison.o@gmail.com | Senior |
Zubia Hasan | Johns Hopkins University | zhasan5@jhu.edu | Senior |
Ryann Hee | California State University, Sacramento | ryannhee@csus.edu | Senior |
Erika Hoffman | University of California, Los Angeles | rkhoffman06@gmail.com | Senior |
Katie Hughes | University of Chicago | Senior | |
Rheem Ilaiwi | University of Texas at Dallas | ilaiwirh@gmail.com | Junior |
Nissia Indradjaja | University of California, Los Angeles | Junior | |
Kaila Jenkins | University of Michigan | kailagjenkins@gmail.com | Post-bacc |
Lyric Jones | Ohio University | lj266018@ohio.edu | Junior |
Sinclaire Jones | Princeton University | sejones@princeton.edu | Junior |
Zoe Juneau | University of California, Los Angeles | zoejuneau@yahoo.com | Senior |
Yonna Kim | University of California, Berkeley | Senior | |
Rey Lambert | University of California, Riverside | ||
Jiaruo Li | Cornell University | jl2596@cornell.edu | Senior |
Sophie Li | Caltech | shli@caltech.edu | Junior |
Hongyin Liu | University of California, Santa Barbara | hongyin@ucsb.edu | Junior |
Yifan Liu | University of Washington | ||
Victoria Lloyd | Harvey Mudd College | Junior | |
Yana Lozina | University of Washington | Senior | |
Anasuya Lyons | University of California, Berkeley | ana.lyons@berkeley.edu | Junior |
Amanda Malnati | Smith College | amalnati@smith.edu | Junior |
Riddhi Manna | Indian Institute of Science, Education and Research, Pune | riddhi.manna@students.iiserpune.ac.in | Junior |
Brina Martinez | University of Texas Rio Grande Valley | Senior | |
Phoebe McClincy | Pennsylvania State University | phoebemcclincy@gmail.com | Senior |
Eden McEwen | University of California, Berkeley | Senior | |
Hana Mir | Virginia Tech | hanam@vt.edu | Senior |
Anjali Nambrath | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | nambrath@mit.edu | Senior |
Meredith Neyer | University of California, Santa Barbara | meredithneyer@ucsb.edu | Senior |
Kimberly Paragas (Ho) | Wesleyan University | kparagas@wesleyan.edu | Senior |
Anna Pedersen | University of California, Santa Barbara | annapedersen@ucsb.edu | Junior |
Sagada Penano | Stanford University | sagadap@stanford.edu | Junior |
Polina Petrov | Carnegie Mellon University | polinap@andrew.cmu.edu | Senior |
Sarah Polizzotto | University of California, Santa Barbara | sarahpolizzotto@ucsb.edu | Senior |
Gayathrini Premawardhana | Cornell University | gtp28@cornell.edu | Senior |
Nishat Fahmida Protyasha | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Junior | |
Stuti Raizada | University of California, Berkeley | stutiraizada@berkeley.edu | Senior |
Priyadarshini Rajkumar | Texas Tech University | priyadarshini.rajkumar@ttu.edu | Senior |
Rachel Ratvasky | The Pennsylvania State University | Senior | |
Emma Rice | Ohio University | ||
Jennifer Sanchez | California State University, Fullerton | jenniferhelen@csu.fullerton.edu | |
Shejuti Shahriar | University of Southern California | shejshahriar@gmail.com | Senior |
Sowkhya Shanbhog | Indian Institute of Science Education and Research – Pune | ||
Reehan Siraj | William & Mary | resiraj@email.wm.edu | Junior |
Anna Soper | Harvey Mudd College | asoper@hmc.edu | Junior |
Chloe Taylor | Harvey Mudd College | cstaylor@g.hmc.edu | Junior |
Susana Torres-Londono | University of California, Berkeley | susanatorres2021@berkeley.edu | |
Anne Trainer | Smith College | atrainer@smith.edu | Junior |
Clare Urbanski | Marquette University | clare.urbanski@marquette.edu | Senior |
Sarah Webster | University of California, Santa Barbara | sarahwebster@ucsb.edu | Junior |
Lauren Willett | Pennsylvania State University | lhw5050@psu.edu | Junior |
Erin Wilson | Spelman College | ewilso18@spelman.edu | Junior |
Shufan Xia | Haverford College | sxia1@haverford.edu | Senior |
Keqin Yan | University of California, Los Angeles | kyan233@g.ucla.edu | Junior |
Ruining Zhang | University of California, Santa Barbara | ruining_zhang@ucsb.edu | Junior |
Brenda Zhou | University of Southern California | brendazh@usc.edu | Senior |
Elizabeth Zhou | University of Southern California | zhoue@usc.edu | Senior |
Picture a Scientist
Special Viewing Opportunity for FUTURE Participants
The Heising-Simons Foundation is excited to share the newly released independent film, Picture a Scientist, about gender and racial bias and sexual harassment, told through the stories of female scientists. HSF was the principal funder (with Sloan Foundation also contributing, among others). We believe the film can help advance the conversation about diversity in science, and would love for Caltech to benefit from it.
The direct link to the trailer is here: https://vimeo.com/405966332
The review by Science magazine: https://blogs.sciencemag.org/books/2020/06/12/picture-a-scientist/
The review by Variety: https://variety.com/2020/film/reviews/picture-a-scientist-review-1234634363/