Thompson on site at the Habitat for Humanity Carter Work Project, sponsored by former President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn. (Photo courtesy of Taylor Thompson)

Sanchita Bhatnagar is investigating ways to reactivate healthy-but-inactive chromosomes, in an effort to repair brain damage that has been thought to be permanent. (Photo by Dan Addison, University Communications)

Erik Weihenmayer went blind when he was a teenager, but didn’t let it stop him from climbing Mount Everest and the Seven Summits. (Photo by Dan Addison, University Communications)