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2022 Fellows: Announcement in the New York Times
Every year, The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans takes out a full page advertisement in the New York Times to announce the new class of Paul & Daisy Soros Fellows. Here are the 2022 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellows and their families with the advertisement.


Hari is now a senior at UC Berkeley, where he is majoring in psychology and minoring in disability studies. While at college, Hari has written over 50 articles on autism for the Daily Californian, worked for various research labs, and taught a class on autism as a student instructor that he designed for eight semesters. Next year, he will begin his PhD in neuroscience at Vanderbilt University.


Rishi has published more than 20 academic papers, including first-author publications in Science, Cell, and Nature Medicine. During the pandemic, he has also been a leading science communicator on COVID vaccines, with regular contributions to major news outlets such as The Atlantic, Nature News, and NPR. He hopes to pursue a career as a physician-scientist, using the latest innovations in immunology research to improve patient care.

Audrey is currently pursuing her doctorate in musical arts at the CUNY Graduate Center and teaching at Hunter College, CUNY in New York City. She aims to combine performance with education and her research on the systems that underlie classical music’s culture in order to better share and expand classical music to all.










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The Alchemist
“The Alchemist” is a sculpture by Jaume Plensa, on permanent public exhibition at the MIT campus in Cambridge, MA. It shows a man with knees drawn to his chest, the structure “created from numeric symbols as an ‘homage to all the researchers and scientists’ who have contributed to scientific and mathematical knowledge.” (MIT Visual Arts Center)
Alone he sits, and waits, and bates
his breath, that he might know the world.
For in his mind he calculates,
and secrets ancient come unfurled.
Amidst ancient pillars and stone firmaments,
wizened professors with unruly hair shake fistfuls of paper,
earmarked with circular coffee-stains and circuitous footnotes.
Fountain pens scratching with worn nibs.
A flourish of ink, a flurry of revelation.
He looms afar; a lump of steel,
with concrete pressing at his heel,
The Alchemist, his world dissolves
into the numbers that he solves.
Worker-ant sleep-deprived students
nod their heads, jot down the ideas within.
Children, faces emblazoned with those same dark rings,
their eyes like peering into a mug of black coffee,
the coffee that has become their soul.
But step inside and look around:
the sky takes on a sculpted lens,
and thoughts with numbers do abound
as scribbled by the thinkers’ pens.
Like the smell of worn library-book pages,
the must of printed paper
with traces of fingers that once held them.
Gone, but never lost.
Gone, but not forgotten.
What is art, if not a product of the mind?
Then is not product all a work of art?
For scientists do seek, and they shall find,
Their quest a matter of mind, hand, heart.
“Knowledge is all around us,” it seems to say.
“And as you are within it, it is within you.”
A supplicant at wisdom’s gates,
what little we do know for sure –
Alone he sits, and waits, and bates
his breath, that he might think some more.

Featured Fellows
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Lawrence T. Wang
Internal Medicine Resident Physician, Weill Cornell Medicine
Lawrence T. Wang is the child of immigrants from Taiwan. Fellowship awarded in 2022 to support work towards an MD at University of California, San Diego
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Hari Srinivasan
PhD, Vanderbilt University
Hari Srinivasan is the child of immigrants from India. Fellowship awarded in 2022 to support work towards a PhD in Neuroscience at Vanderbilt University
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