As a high school student, Davis United World College Scholar Sanyum Dalal (SF25) created Philosophy for Children, a program offering supplementary education to students of all ages in her home country of India.
Aayush Thapa (SF22) works in the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE), a particle physics division of LANL, where he also completed his ARIEL internship in summer 2022. Working at one of the top scientific institutions in the country is in many ways its own reward, but Thapa also has other things he wishes to gain from this experience.
January Freshmen Ken Baumann (SF17) and Katherine Swift (SF22) talk about the joys and challenges of starting college with back-to-back, spring, summer, and fall semesters at St. John’s College. “You’re playing the game on hard mode,” says Baumann.
Neal Allen’s (SF78) (EC21) book Shapes of Truth: Discover God Inside You is rooted in Platonic philosophy and Sufi metaphysics, which are connected by “a deep-seated conviction that there is an eternal reality that sits underneath the manifest reality.”
Salomon Cordova (SF22), a native New Mexican, has always been interested in social and political issues native to his state—his St. John’s education has served as an extension of this concern and a force driving him to pursue a career in public policy.
