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STUDENT PROFILES

Benjamin Diop

Area

Applied Physics

Focus

In addition to research Diop says, “I spend a lot of my time teaching kids at the Cambridge Community Center. I believe that society has given so much to me and that it is my duty to give something back.”

Education

Vanderbilt University, S.B. in Chemical Engineering and Molecular Cellular Biology

To make a graduate degree in engineering effective, you need a strong foundation in the sciences upon which engineering fields are built.

I chose Harvard over other graduate programs because it provides that strong foundation.

I work in a lab at the Medical School developing new imaging techniques for osteoarthritis with researchers who have both engineering and medical backgrounds.

It is nice to interact with different kinds of people because it gives you the feeling that there is no problem that will arise in your research that cannot be solved.

There is always someone that you know who has the necessary expertise.

I’ve realized that the goal is not to define scientific fields but to solve the problem with whatever skills might be needed.