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Ugonna Victor Emeka-Inegbu spent part of his summer helping a Wisconsin manufacturer build a better welder thanks to a journey that started with a trip through a registered student organization.

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President Donald Trump took credit for winning the Nobel Prize in Physics, which was awarded this month to three scientists.

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