Dr. Benjamin Allwein's six-year journey at Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences was filled with intellectual achievements in structural biology and biochemistry, but also marred by disruptions like the COVID-19 pandemic and federal funding cuts. Allwein, who lost a grandparent to COVID-19, described the loneliness of working in science during isolation. However, he maintained his research passion and eventually secured a postdoc position at UC Berkeley after graduation, reflecting on the communal fight for science's significance and feeling part of a larger mission.
It made science very lonely for a while, and I feel like one of the great benefits of working in science, at academic centers, is the collaborative nature of it.
Getting to the end and having a job waiting, seeing the groundswell in the scientific community fighting for its importance, makes me feel like I'm part of something far larger than myself.
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