Bushra
Samad (center) and her daughters Aaida and Tahoura,
in Stanley Hall.
BERKELEY — Aaida and Tahoura Samad, identical-twin freshmen and scientists-in-the-making at Berkeley, will welcome a familiar face to campus in the fall: their mother. Bushra Samad, who earned a bachelor's degree in bioengineering from Berkeley in December 2008, has just been admitted to the bioengineering Ph.D. program that Cal offers jointly with UCSF. She is one of just 53 students accepted out of 508 applicants. Is this another one of those only-at-Berkeley stories? It's tough to know for sure. But it's also hard to imagine that too many other universities play scholastic home to a trio of students who are a mother and her twin daughters. And it might be difficult, too, for many mothers raising teenage daughters to imagine earning a bioengineering degree and winning admission to a highly competitive graduate program at the same time.
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