Isabella Kwai

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NEWS | UNIVERSITY

Grad student survives Brussels terrorist attacks

By Isabella Kwai | March 31, 2016

Waiting at a gate in Brussels Airport in Zaventem, Belgium, McSwain Forkoh first realized something was wrong when he saw a horde of people running towards him. Forkoh, a first-year masters student at the Sanford School of Public Policy, survived the March 22 Brussels Airport bombing, which occurred as he was returning to the U.S. after visiting family in Liberia.

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NEWS | UNIVERSITY

Three students seek to expand travels after cross-country bus trip

By Isabella Kwai | February 25, 2016

While many Duke students settled into summer internships last May, three undergraduates drove almost 8,000 miles across the country in a yellow school bus.

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NEWS | UNIVERSITY

Baby lemur delivered during snowstorm Saturday

By Isabella Kwai | January 28, 2016

A male Coquerel’s sifaka lemur was born at the Duke Lemur Center during the snow storm Saturday.

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OPINION

In defense of indignation

By Isabella Kwai | November 12, 2015

There is an incident I always think about whenever people tell me that it must have been easy to adjust to Duke after coming from a Western country.

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OPINION

Tell people how you feel

By Isabella Kwai | October 29, 2015

When I think of the things I’ve regretted, so many of them come down to things I wish I had said or things I had done.

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OPINION

Never before

By Isabella Kwai | October 15, 2015

When I first told my mother that I had been accepted into Duke University, she went pale. We were sitting around the small tabletop in our kitchen in Australia sipping tea.

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OPINION

First impressions

By Isabella Kwai | October 1, 2015

I used to see this girl around campus all the time. When I was late for class, running down Towerview Road, she would be on the other side of the road, walking sedately.

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OPINION

The thing about time

By Isabella Kwai | September 17, 2015

The most idealistic I have ever felt was the summer I turned 21 in a small but famous city called Oxford.

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OPINION

The power of alone

By Isabella Kwai | September 3, 2015

There are some things I have learned to expect when traveling through European hostels. The wifi will likely be spotty in the upstairs rooms.

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OPINION

On the illusion of disillusion

By Isabella Kwai | May 14, 2015

I can’t count the number of times I’ve been disappointed while at Duke.

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