<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/2025/0808-adriana-cuibus.php" dsn="blogs"><featured/><feature_title>Featured News</feature_title><title>Rediscovering a passion for medicine — through the liberal arts</title><author>Tory Abbott '23</author><author_email>info@skidmore.edu</author_email><pubDate>08/12/2025 01:02:27 PM</pubDate><display>display</display><description>A Skidmore research experience rekindled an interest in medicine for Adriana Cuibus ’24, who is now a research technician at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center with plans to become a physician scientist.</description><category>Alumni Stories</category><image_listing><img src="/news/2025/images/0811-adriana-cuibus-thumbnail.jpg" alt="Adriana Cuibus ’24 performing lab work at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center"/></image_listing><image><img src="/news/2025/images/0811-adriana-cuibus-feature.jpg" alt="Adriana Cuibus ’24 presenting undergraduate chemistry research"/></image><caption>Adriana Cuibus ’24 presents her undergraduate research at the Biophysical Society National Conference in Philadelphia in January 2024. Cuibus, who majored in biochemistry, is now a research technician at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center with plans to become a physician scientist.</caption></item>