Engineering student wins on "Jeopardy!"

8/5/2016

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Chicago Tribune (Aug. 5) -- After seven shirts, six wins, two days of filming and at least one utterance of “Oh my god, I’m an idiot,” a 24-year-old Illinois Ph.D. student walked away with $137,088 in "Jeopardy" winnings in episodes that aired into last week. Pranjal Vachaspati is a third-year doctoral student at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign studying computational phylogenetics — which he said entails building software for biologists. Also: Cleveland.com (Aug. 5), Smile Politely (blog, Aug. 3).


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This story was published August 5, 2016.