KRIPA VARANASI: Inventor of LiquiGlide

Kripa Varanasi, a professor at MIT, along with one of his former students created a solution to help reduce leftovers at the bottom of containers such as paint, toothpaste, & ketchup.  

ZINNIA KUMAR: Model With A Brain From Down Under

Zinnia Kumar is a fashion model and a valedictorian from Sydney, Australia.  Her published papers on the attractiveness of men’s facial hair and women’s hair color applying Darwin’s negative frequency-dependant selection for the first time on human traits got picked up by major media outlets.  This led to the coining of a new term “Peak Beard.” 

MANU PRAKASH: MacArthur Fellow

Manu Prakash is an Indian American scientist who is a Professor of Bioengineering at Stanford University. He recently received the MacArthur Fellowship in September 2016.

Intel’s Young Scientist Winner who Dances

Eesha Khare, grand prize winner of Intel’s Young Scientist Award 2013 for her research in nanoparticles to replace conventional batteries, shares her years in Harvard as a dancer on TedX Teen.