STEM SENIORS

Story and photos by Jasmine Wongphatarakul, Alice Xie and Kimberly Ayson

West Ranch senior Swarada Kulkarni always knew her passion lay within the subject of neuroscience. Through her science classes and her volunteer work at the hospital, Kulkarni decided to commit to this field of study and continue her education at Vanderbilt University.

Kulkarni’s interest in the subject stemmed from her natural curiosity of the inner workings of the human body. Kulkarni expressed, “In my biology and chemistry classes, I’ve always wondered why the human body works the way it does, and neuroscience helps explain that. It helped clear a lot of my questions because the brain helps to govern the whole body.”