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ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ students have fanned out across the globe to apply their liberal arts know-how in a variety of real-world settings. They are keeping our community posted on their progress. Tim Englehart ’18,  a sociology major from Newburyport, Mass., wrote this dispatch about his research with Janel Benson, associate professor of sociology. Last semester, I began […]

Spot the difference: A group of people or people in a group? While these phrases might seem interchangeable at first glance, recent research by Erin Cooley, assistant professor of psychology, shows that humans interpret these similar statements in unexpected ways. Cooley’s research investigates the topic of mind perception — the idea that we can ascribe […]

ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ students have fanned out across the globe to apply their liberal arts know-how in a variety of real-world settings. They are keeping our community posted on their progress. Christine Horn ’19, from Corning, N.Y., wrote this dispatch about her research, funded through the Beckman Scholars Program. Has the agriculture industry’s selection of redder, juicier, […]

Chemistry professor Ernie Nolen has spent his career building complex synthetic molecules. Now he is bringing his expertise to detecting and defeating diseases like cancer.

ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ neuroscientist Wan-Chun Liu is using songbirds to understand better how the human brain learns to speak — and gain new insights into diseases such as autism disorder. Professor Wan-Chun Liu’s lab is filled with the mellifluous tweets and squeaks of zebra finches, a small songbird native to Australia. The birds are highly social animals […]

Many ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ students take a semester during their junior year to study in some of the world’s most remarkable places. However, few will study in a location as remote as the Sabrina Coast of Antarctica. That’s where Meghan Duffy ’18 spent the spring with geology professor Amy Leventer aboard the Australian ocean research vessel RV […]

Assistant Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies Susan Thomson is travelling to Cape Town, South Africa, this summer to continue her research on the experiences of refugee women. Her work is sponsored by a grant from the Picker Interdisciplinary Science Institute and builds on research conducted last summer in Cape Town and in Nairobi, Kenya, […]

Physics professors Rebecca Metzler and Enrique Galvez are leading a team of ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ researchers to find out more about nacre’s structure, which is known for its strength and luster.

Kevin Iglesias ’17, of Silver Spring, Md., has been awarded a Fulbright research grant to travel to Brazil to study public health. Iglesias, a peace and conflict studies major, will conduct research in the city of Salvador, Bahia, on the relationship between black/Afro-Brazilian LGBT identities and ethnic forms of traditional healing in Afro-Matrix Religions (AMR). […]

ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½â€™s Off-Campus Study Committee and Dean’s Advisory Council have approved an extended study trip to Patagonia for January 2018.