undergraduate

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The number of students earning undergraduate astronomy degrees in the U.S. is at an all-time high, quadruple what it was two decades ago.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

The project began when Manasi Desai, an undergraduate student interested in cosmetic chemistry, approached her research advisor Joshua Lawrence in search of a project.

From Science Daily • Mar. 26, 2026

When Ryder Paredes, 22, began studying computer science as an undergraduate three years ago, “AI was in its infancy, it wasn’t very intelligent,” the Montclair, N.J., native said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 22, 2026

The inaugural winner was Inge-Maria Botha, 22, an undergraduate at the University of Manchester.

From BBC • Mar. 15, 2026

The student next to me said he’d studied Isaiah Berlin at Oxford; the other said he’d already heard this lecturer’s remarks on Berlin when he was an undergraduate at Cambridge.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover