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Assistant Professor of Economics Mo Alloush was awarded a $40,000 USAID grant to study measurement and data-focused issues related to poverty traps and resilience among poor households.
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Who do people turn to for help? Many turn to family, close friends, or sometimes, they may even seek out state authorities. But what happens when these options are no longer available—when you have left behind your families and friends, and state authorities will sooner detain you than offer you help? This is the reality for thousands of migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border, and the driving question to Nick Cackett’s ’24 and Quinn Jones’ 23 summer research projects.
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With the support of many Hamiltonians from across campus, a small cohort of interns spent the summer developing a plan for how the College can use green landscaping as a tool in its sustainability efforts.
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The editorial staff of Book XI, led by Marianne Janack, the John Stewart Kennedy Professor of Philosophy, has just published the latest issue of the journal.
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With Glacier Bay National Park to the west and Tongass National Forest to the east, Kaitlyn Bieber ’23 and Olivia Chandler ’23 found a month-long home amidst the nation’s largest stretch of protected wilderness. But more importantly, the pair found answers for their two distinct Levitt Center research projects.
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After studying at Oxford for almost a year, Lucas Jonathan Wang Zheng ’23 is returning to Hamilton with a newfound love for research and a nearly completed Emerson project that focuses on the affordability of musical education among middle-class, late Victorian-era English women. He hopes that his findings will help fill the gap in economic and social historical musicology.
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In a project funded through the Kirkland Endowment Advisory Committee, Aliana Potter ’24 spent the summer conducting research in Utica focusing on maternal health services for refugee mothers. She talks about the importance of her research and how she hopes it will make a difference.
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The United States is facing an unprecedented housing crisis, the effects of which are devastating to low-income renters. With rising rental costs, residents must choose between their homes and other aspects of their life. This reality speaks to the expanding definition of displacement, an important component of Shania Kuo’s ’23 summer research at Stanford.
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An article co-authored by Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Stephen Tomasetti appears in the Journal Environmental Pollution.
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Aaron Simons ’22 shares what it was like to direct his mentor and former theatre professor Mark Cryer in a one-man play about Thurgood Marshall at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland in early August.
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