"Lucia Perez ’14 recently completed a Fulbright Student Research Fellowship that didn’t go exactly as planned but lead to some deep insights about how to make communities, and perhaps the world, a little stronger and more connected. Perez, now a Ph.D. student in the astrophysics program at Arizona State University (ASU), took her Fulbright to South Africa to work with Dr. Thebe Medupe, a leading astrophysicist in South Africa who specializes in astroseismology, the branch of astrophysics that uses the pulsations within stars to determine their properties."