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Grant Kiefaber ’19, is spending most of his summer researching how Muslim refugees have integrated into the city of Utica, N.Y., near College Hill. So far finding people to interview has been a challenge, albeit a tasty one.
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For a couple of reasons, Garth Robinson ’19 finds himself devoting a summer to research in education, even thought it is neither his major nor his minor. Robinson has a long-held personal interest in his topic — a tiny neighborhood school.
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After taking film courses with Professor of Art History Scott McDonald, Ghada Emish '19 got serious about discovering why the film genre she loves — Egyptian musicals — fizzled. With an Emerson Grant from the College, she's on the trail of the answer.
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The course, "Is Paris Burning? May 1968," inspired a summer's worth of research for French major Katherine McNally ’18.
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It took only one visit, three years ago, for Japan and its culture to leave a long-standing impact on Paige Pendergrast ’19, a cinema and media studies and Asian studies double major.
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“There came a point where I realized I knew more about the U.S. healthcare system and its issues than about the healthcare system of the country I grew up in. This seemed problematic to me especially since I hope to someday practice medicine in Morocco,” said researcher Sofia Rachad ’18.
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Geosciences major Emily Alexander ’19 spent a summer researching the water quality and water-system infrastructure of a small city near campus.
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Next semester, Haley Tietz ’19, a literature major, plans to study abroad in India. And she wants to know how to write about it. “I’m trying to understand the relationship between feminism and Orientalism in travel writing, and whether it is possible to write about travel in a way that is not problematic,” said Tietz.
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No one specific road leads to the theatre, and for Sarah Zeiberg ’18, the route includes an environmental studies and theatre double major.
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Last fall, after taking Real Analysis, a course taught by Professor of Mathematics Robert Kantrowitz, a new, infinitely large world opened up for Lizz Spangenthal ’18 — she learned about Cantor’s Theorem.
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