Sophie Young, ’23, a senior in the School of Media and Journalism, has always admired the New York Times and everything about it (including the Wordle). “It’s a lot of what I consume,” she says. “I get three different New York Times emails in my Inbox every day, and I’ve been reading them for a long time.” So, the opportunity to be part of it is something she considered “absolutely unreal” — but it will soon be a reality as she prepares for a summer internship as a Multi-Platform Editor at the New York Times. As part of her Editing class last fall, she took a test and applied for...

Meet Javadbay Khalizade, a University Fellowship recipient. Javadbay is a Political Science Ph.D. student with a Transnational and Comparative Politics concentration. Please give a short overview of your research. I am majoring in Transnational and Comparative Politics and my research examines the survival strategies of authoritarian regimes. Unlike, democratic countries where governments are elected as a result of the persuasion of voters in free and fair elections, authoritarian countries do have not free and fair elections, but they also seek the support of population and leg...