Laurel is a second-year MD/PhD student at Yale School of Medicine. Before coming to Yale, she studied physics as an undergraduate at Duke University and astrophysics as a graduate at the University of Oxford. She is extremely passionate about human space exploration and is a member of the national aerospace medical association, runs the space medicine group at Yale, and applied for a crewed mission to Mars. When she’s not spacing out, Laurel loves rowing, creative writing, painting, and going on adventrues. Reach out for absolutely anything at laurel.kaye@yale.edu.