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Posts published by “Tianna Spitz”

Tianna is the Managing Editor of The Stute. She was previously the Features Editor and a freshman book columnist. She is a second-year Science Communication major with a focus in health sciences. She loves to cover campus life, culture, and science.

Giya Dressingonit is dead!

On March 27, 2025, a harrowing missing persons investigation came to a grim close late into the night as The Stupe’s Editor in Chief, Giya dressingonit was presumed dead in a tragic Davis Hall fire that set the UCC ablaze. 

A spotlight on the women’s workshops at the MakerSpace

Jiya Jaisinghani for The Stute

The MakerSpace kicked off its third semester of women’s workshops on January 27, featuring a hands-on DIY fidget spinner event in the second-floor ABS Engineering Center.

Bat loss linked to 1,300 U.S. infant deaths

At what point does wildlife health become entangled with public health and safety? The anthropocene, the current period of human activity influencing the natural environment, is far-reaching and messy as it considers how human intervention, pollution, commercialization impacts the surrounding ecosystems to reveal how human health often heavily relies on ecological levels of key populations. 

A Tale of Two Cities: Dichotomies in violence and justice

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” The line is infamous in English literature as Charles Dickens’ 1859 novel, A Tale of Two Cities, to frame the motif of duality throughout the seven monthly installments of the novel to-be.

Beggars in Spain: Sci-fi gene editing from future’s past

Human genetics remains a largely unexplored frontier in which our dabbling becomes an ethical debate of playing God. Before CRISPR gene editing technology was mainstream, the 1993 sci-fi novel Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress is set between 2008 to the 2030s and offers social and ethical commentary on present-day genetic engineering.