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Aliyah Weinstein is an alumna of Rutgers University and is currently a first-year PhD student in immunology at the University of Pittsburgh.  Her scientific interests include cancer immunology and immunotherapy. Outside of science, she speaks French, volunteers with a Pittsburgh-based youth writing initiative, and enjoys baking.  She writes about life as a grad student on her blog, Isn’t That Grad! 

You are invited to travel back in time and ask anyone a question. Who would it be and why?

Grandpa, what was it like to be in the war? The second-to-last week of March, 2007, was when the question first crossed my mind.

I was sixteen then, a junior in high school, studying twentieth century U.S. history. We’d started learning about the 1950s, and were assigned a project on the Vietnam War. Any information I would need would be available either in our textbook or on the Internet, but I thought it would be neat to get some first-hand information to include in my report as well. Continue reading →