“alaria kills between 500,000 and one million children each year,” said Jeff Wagner, Dartmouth ’06, “but it’s a problem we can address.” Wagner, who recently received his Ph.D. in biological engineering from MIT, is the lead author on a recent paper describing a new technique for genome editing in the malaria parasite, ‘Plasmodium falciparum.’

Carnegie Mellon brothers Matthew Ho, ’14, and John Brieger, ’14, are two of Disney’s youngest creative minds. In January the pair found themselves on the winning team of Walt Disney Imagineering’s “Imaginations” competition.