Theodore M. Nelson [CS-PreMed] is a Churchill Scholar. His research, carried out at Yale Medical School, Columbia Irving Medical Center, and Weill Cornell Medicine, focuses on the intersection between biological and computational sciences, especially in the application of long-read sequencing technologies to long noncoding RNA biology, epitranscriptomics, and astronaut health. His work has been accepted in Nature, Nature Communications, and the International Journal of Molecular Sciences. He teaches high school students to verify long-read predicted alternative splice variants, having founded the Glass Half Full or Empty: Illuminating the Human Transcriptome outreach program, originally hosted by the Double Discovery Center. A long-time leader in Columbia Space Initiative, Systems Biology Initiative, and the Activities Board at Columbia, his teams have launched biological payloads to space, fostered close-knit and supportive interest groups, and exhibited record-breaking fiscal advocacy for student groups. Additionally, he has directed five crisis committees for CIRCE’s Model United Nations program.