All News
-
Avery Lum ’22 had big plans this summer to take on a full-time fellowship with otolaryngologist Daniel Roberts ’97 at UConn. Then the coronavirus pandemic hit. Instead of taking the summer off, Lum devised a fall-back plan.
Topic -
“I haven’t had the chance to get stuck knee-deep in the mud before.” Hamilton summer internship funding helps give students a variety of experiences which, for Robbie Rioux ’21, includes spending some time in the mud.
Topic -
At the Brookings Institution, intern Samuel Alderson ’21 works within the Metropolitan Policy Program, a research division that focuses on analyzing how policies impact U.S. cities.
Topic -
Even if the laboratories are closed, the (online) libraries are open, and COVID-19 isn’t stopping Associate Professor of Chemistry and Chair of Biochemistry/Molecular Biology Max Majireck, Amy Glanzer ’21, and Holly Hutchinson ’21 from conducting chemistry research this summer.
Topic -
the New World Nature summer history research project was an enterprise of moving parts — an academic and organizational feat. The idea was to develop the research and digital humanities skills of five students on the team, while furthering their personal research and that of the professor in charge. That was Assistant Professor of History Mackenzie Cooley, whose field is the history of science and ideas in the early modern world.
Topic -
Student summer research is underway, with students and faculty collaborating on projects remotely via Zoom. Here, Gus Huiskamp ’21, describes his Emerson Foundation research project about the philosophical and literary movement, Negritude.
Topic -
Juasline Plasencia ’23 is using a summer research grant from the College to teach art online to students at Miami Southridge High School — and provide them with art supplies. She plans to share the students’ artwork on social media.
-
Inspired by his surgeon grandfather and his father’s recovery from cancer, Ishan Bhatia ’20 will conduct cancer research in India at Tata Memorial Center in Mumbai after graduation.
Topic -
Lea Barros ’22 was recently recognized with an award at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students.
Topic