Tina Nazerian is a McMurtry College sophomore studying English and Policy Studies. As a staff news writer for The Rice Thresher, Rice University’s student-run campus newspaper, she has covered a wide range of topics, from writing about a student initiative to install outdoor recycling bins on campus, to interviewing NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Mars Curiosity Rover engineers, Ravi Prakash and Bobak Ferdowsi.  She is interested in journalistic reporting and ethics, as well as the field’s relationship to policy and politics.