Kevin Cryan is a sophomore at Johns Hopkins University and an active supporter of DOMA. In fact, he is spending today in front of the Supreme Court Building, and look at his face beaming with happiness! Kevin has done his undergraduate research on DOMA as part of the Foreign Affairs Symposium at Hopkins. Each spring […]
Some class projects blend art and science by producing beautiful interactive visualizations. Harvard Stat 221 taught students the skill and art of distributed computing and interactive visualizations. The class encouraged students to create their own visualization projects using a Javascript library d3.js, as well as critique existing visualizations (available on class blog). Konstantin Kashin is a graduate […]
Were you wondering what is going on at other universities? We were, too! Today, we are introducing new way to browse for information at Project Lever. Now, in addition to looking up various research resources that exist at one university, our users can also use the home page to poke around and see multiple resources […]
Picture courtesy of Leah Muskin-Pierret. William Beckham is participating in the New Initiative for Middle East Peace (NIMEP) at Tufts. NIMEP is a non-polemical student think-tank and outreach initiative aimed at finding progressive solutions to the historic conflicts in the Middle East. The program sponsor is Institute for Global Leadership (IGL). They sponsor a number of […]
Are leaders born or made? Researchers at the US Military Academy at West Point studied brain scans of 103 volunteers, ranging in rank from officer cadet to major. The researchers claim that they found neural networks of those deemed “leaders” that were different from the rest. The study was published in the Journal of Applied […]
Published Researcher. Healthcare Consultant. Volunteer. Inventor. Boston University Engineer. Superman?? No. Just KC Walley. How does he do all of it, you ask? His advice: start early. He knows what he’s talking about – back in 2009, he became the youngest research assistant at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School investigating cancer research. His lab examining […]
Our newest #Research Superstar is from Tufts University! Sara Khosrowjerdi is a sophomore majoring in Biochemistry and minoring in English. She has been doing research since her freshman year in Professor Joshua Kritzer’s lab in the chemistry department on projects involving synthesis of bicyclic peptides to target protein-protein interactions and synthesis of amino acids […]
