A Passion for Policy

Every day between September and December 2016, Radhika Mathur, a PhD candidate in Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS), would stand outside the West Wing of the White House and take the same photo. “I wanted to soak everything in,” she explains. “I kept thinking ‘I cannot believe I’m here.’”

Here was the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), where Mathur wrote and edited policy reports, attended interagency meetings and helped put together transition memos for the new administration. “As the Science Division intern, I worked with basically everyone in the division, which allowed me to participate in many different projects at OSTP.”

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