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From his first communication course, the discipline hit home for Vincent Tran ’18. He began to think about how a person communicates will vary depending on the context or environment.

Approximately 21 years ago, Upson Chair of Public Discourse and Professor of Geosciences Barbara Tewksbury attended a Highland dance workshop with her daughter, who began studying the competitive Scottish dance at age 10. As a part of the dance workshop was a companion kiltmaking seminar held by Elsie Stuehmeyer, one of the best-known individual kiltmakers in the world.

Conor Powers ’17 and Alexa Horn ’17 presented findings of their sea urchin research to an international audience at the Eighth North American Echinoderm Conference.

His stack of transcripts is 120 pages deep. Erich Wohl ’18 interviewed 16 African American Hamilton alumni about their experiences with race in the workplace for his summer research project.

Fiona Griffin ’18, a psychology major, credits her father, an autism behavior specialist, with inspiring her drive to work with the autism community.

Professor of Theatre Craig Latrell presented a paper at the International Convention of Asia Scholars in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

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.

Ann Owen, Henry Platt Bristol Professor of Economics, directed a mentoring workshop for junior female economists at top liberal arts colleges and other institutions that do not offer an economics Ph.D.

Anya Nugent '18 is participating in the Berkeley Lab Undergraduate Research (BLUR) program to study galaxy clustering. The Department of Energy featured this story on its website.

Assistant Professor of Literature Pavitra Sundar recently presented a paper at the annual American Comparative Literature Association conference in Utrecht, Netherlands.