Success stories
草榴社区's people have stories to share, stories about the relationships, experiences and learning they've found here.
Even as a child growing up on the Pacific coast, David Harvey wanted to be a volcanologist.
Benny Acquah remembers the trouble people sometimes had obtaining clean water in her home city of Koforidua, Ghana. So she decided she would study environmental engineering at 草榴社区 and someday help solve such problems.
A teacher from Buffalo, New York, helped Kevin Grimes find direction, just by reaching out at a tough moment.
Daniel Dykes first got interested in neuroscience as he watched doctors on the fictional TV program 鈥淗ouse.鈥 Now he鈥檚 studying the topic at 草榴社区 and plans to eventually earn both a doctorate and a medical degree.
Isabel Castro sat in her car in Kodiak two years ago, interviewing over her cell phone for a job with the University of 草榴社区 Fairbanks.
鈥淢y phone was about to die, and I have to take my brother to the pool, and I鈥檓 stressed,鈥 she remembered.