Brown graduate student John Nicklas was profiled in the Brown Daily Herald on Feb. 24. John – a second-year medical student on leave from the Alpert Medical School – is also enrolled in a self-designed Ph.D. program focused on planetary health (interdisciplinary studies that link human health and health of earth’s natural systems and resources) He currently is working mitigation techniques for groups vulnerable to diseases as a result of climate change. Congratulations, John!