A journal of their own
Undergrads around the world come together to publish 'Triple Helix'

Leadership of the Johns Hopkins chapter of Triple Helix: Guergana Panayotova, Vishal Changrani, Jia Wang, Okay Kayaoglu and John Ji.

Students at Princeton, Cornell and Johns Hopkins may not see eye-to-eye when it comes to lacrosse, but in the world of science publishing, they apparently dovetail quite nicely. In fact, undergraduates at a number of the world's top universities have moved one degree of separation closer, thanks to an international student-run organization called the Triple Helix and a science journal of the same name.
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