Traveling, photography, and the cultural work that keeps me curious outside the lab.
Traveling is how I reset. Remote areas, waterfalls, and long stretches of seashore have a way of resetting my sense of scale, and being somewhere unfamiliar teaches patience better than any deadline does.
Since moving to Maine I have been slowly working through New England, and I still measure every new coastline against the ones back home in Bangladesh.
I photograph most of the places I visit. I am drawn to landscapes and to the small, ordinary
moments in a place that a postcard would never bother with.
I served as President of the Bangladesh Students' Association at the University of Maine, where
our team won Best Cultural Presentation at the UMaine Cultural Fest. Introducing people to
Bangladeshi food, music, and language, and learning other cultures in return, has been one of
the most rewarding parts of graduate school.