My senior year of high school I worked as a volunteer research assistant every day after school for a post-doc in my mom’s lab. The work coincided with the material I was learning in AP biology, and was a very…

At the beginning of October I began my research position with Dr. Dean Lillard, a professor in the department of human sciences. His work on the affect of smoking advertising on smoking rates intrigues me, because I am interested in…

Over the summer, I worked on a project with the data from the music review website Pitchfork in order to learn the R programming language. The code I used drew in the data, took in input from a user, and…

To develop my global awareness, I did an internship in Italy over the summer at a tourist agency in Torri Del Benaco. I lived with family in Italy and was fully immersed in the language and culture. I plan to…

[ “G.O.A.L.S.” is a place where students write about how their planned, current, and future activities may fit into the Honors & Scholars G.O.A.L.S.: Global Awareness, Original Inquiry, Academic Enrichment, Leadership Development, and Service Engagement. For more information, go to:…

[“Career” is where you can collect information about your experiences and skills that will apply to your future career.  Like your resume, this is information that will evolve over time and should be continually updated.   For more information, go to:…

Giving my high school graduation speech was one of my proudest moments. In the last week of my senior year, I found out that I was the valedictorian of my high school. Although I knew my grades were high, I…

About Me

Alex Sfyris is a second-year Mathematics and Economics major at the Ohio State University, with aspirations of becoming a professor. With a minor in computer science, he hopes to apply his analytical and computer skills to use data to support…