Skip to main content
Brian Zhang on Muck Rack

Brian Zhang

(He/Him)
New Haven, New York
As seen in: Medium, Yahoo Life, Business Insider, Wiley Online Library, Yahoo Canada, Yahoo News, Yahoo Singapore, Aol, Uber Engineering Blog, Flipboard and
Covers:  City Life, World, Opinion, Science & Technology, Student Life, Arts & Entertainment
Doesn't Cover: Sports

Get in touch with Brian

Contact Brian, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.

Learn more about Muck Rack

Actions

Share this page

Brian Zhang’s Biography

Read Full Bio →

New York Times Scholar and writer @yaledailynews. Big Insomnia Cookies fan.

Brian Zhang’s Journalist Portfolio

See all →
That feeling with so much color: Coffee with New Haven's Homeless Residents - Yale Daily News

That feeling with so much color: Coffee with New Haven's Homeless Residents - Yale Daily News

Looking back, I was wrong. Home does not mean always falling short of it, even if we are Homeless. Just becau…

View article →
ZHANG:Why I will no longer pursue my favorite pastime at Yale - Yale Daily News

ZHANG:Why I will no longer pursue my favorite pastime at Yale - Yale Daily News

Modern efforts to make the world more inclusive often include useless attempts at making numbers — we are 80 …

View article →
Ribbon cutting at Wooster Square coffee shop celebrates resilience of small businesses during pan...

Ribbon cutting at Wooster Square coffee shop celebrates resilience of small businesses during pan...

Daunting media statistics of business failures during the pandemic were not enough to deter one New Havener f…

View article →
Yale researchers attribute extreme precipitation in recent years to intensifying "rivers in the s...

Yale researchers attribute extreme precipitation in recent years to intensifying "rivers in the s...

With the onslaught of increasingly frequent floods and storms brought about by climate change, Yale researche…

View article →
ZHANG: Which way to the party dorm? - Yale Daily News

ZHANG: Which way to the party dorm? - Yale Daily News

In a first year's first few weeks, the pressure to be socially successful is tenfold. Friend groups seem to b…

View article →
ZHANG: A letter to my fellow Yalies - Yale Daily News

ZHANG: A letter to my fellow Yalies - Yale Daily News

Belonging. It is the one thing we always look for no matter where we are, who we are with. We looked for it o…

View article →

Articles

Zhang | Reform CalFresh student eligibility for MD, PA and nursing students

|
By Brian Zhang
| The Stanford Daily Verified
California is an agricultural Eden — sunlit orchards, strawberry fields and busy farmers’ markets form a state that grows half of America’s produce. Yet beneath this landscape of abundance,nearly one in five Californians experiences food insecurity. Food insecurity is often perceived as a condition confined to visible hardship, such as homelessness or unemployment.
Open in Who Shared View Duplicates (2) Issue with article?

Zhang | The distance between families and firearms is collapsing

|
By Brian Zhang
| The Stanford Daily Verified
An orphan is a child who has lost both parents. A widow has lost her husband; a widower, his wife. But in English, there is no common word for a parent who has lost a child. Maybe because the mouth struggles to conceptualize it, let alone say it.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

Zhang | Where are the humanities majors in medicine?

|
By Brian Zhang
| The Stanford Daily Verified
On the first crewed flight to orbit the Moon in over 50 years, astronauts requested that a lunar crater be named “Carroll” in memory of mission commander Reid Wiseman’s late wife. The phrase “to love someone to the moon and back” has long lived in the English language as a metaphor. I used it just yesterday to thank a friend for a coffee pick-me-up, and the day before that with my immigrant mother, because it somehow felt less awkward than a standalone “I love you.” For Wiseman, it was literal.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?
See all 333 licensed articles (349 Total)

Awards

The New York Times Scholarship

2021 - College Scholarship, Journalism

Every year, The New York Times Scholarship is awarded to 10-15 NYC financially disadvantaged high school seniors who are interested in pursuing journalism as a career.

View Award

The Carol And Theodore Lerner Award For Creativity

2020 - Creativity

This award was created to encourage students to trust that creativity is valuable, and valued by the Stuyvesant faculty. It is given in the junior year. There are no boundaries on the arena in which prize-winning students have exercised their creativity; subjects may range across science, social science, humanities, arts, athletics or more.

View Award