Photo Credit: Unsplash May 2026 was going about typically. I had finished my AP exams and was preparing for my class finals. But after class one day, my friend notified me of a startling story she’d heard about on social media. A user had posted a TikTok discussing how a student in California had faked anaphylaxis in the middle of an AP Chemistry exam. Numerous crazy AP exam stories had been going around during the month, but this post was particularly shocking to me not only because of the...

Photo Credit: Taara Parthasarathy Introduction Every summer, high school students across the country are given the opportunity to participate in the CFAAR Ambassadors Program. It is sponsored by Northwestern’s Center for Food Allergy and Asthma Research at the Feinberg School of Medicine, located at the Simpson Querrey Biomedical Research Center in Chicago, Illinois, and founded and directed by Dr. Ruchi Gupta. The week-long schedule encourages students to more deeply understand the science...