Before Audrey Aslani-Far ever arrived on the Yale campus as a first-year student, she already knew that she would focus on two distinct, but in her mind not dissimilar, fields of study.
Enamored with science since she was a young girl, she was intent on studying molecular, cellular, and developmental biology. But she'd also always enjoyed learning new languages, and so she planned to study Russian as well.
Some people thought this was an odd combination. But Aslani-Far didn't see it that way. "In both genetics and in languages, the world is composed of a set of letters," she says. "Studying these subjects just gives you a new way to read it."
Indeed, she chose to attend Yale because it was a place where she could dive fully into each of these worlds. And over the past four years, the Grace Hopper senior has done just that - as well as discovering other interests and communities that have widened her intellectual range.
