This one has interviews with our research superstars.
Rae Moors, an incoming senior at the University of Notre Dame, has had quite an eventful summer. To gather information for her Irish Language and Literature thesis and Art Studio exhibit, Moors travelled to Dublin and Galway to research Irish folklore and the way that characters, stories and cultural heritage is celebrated in the telling […]
All of his friends and family know him simply as “Billy,” but for the Harvard student-athlete William Francis Looney IV, his name reflects only part of his identity on campus, as his passions for both academics and athletics bleed into everything he does. Billy is a rising senior at the college, on track to honorably […]
Written by Alicia Czarnecki, student at the University of Notre Dame! When Monica McFadden, Environmental Engineering Class of 2017, University of Notre Dame, was searching for colleges she was specifically looking for a place where she could be involved in research as an undergraduate student. At Notre Dame, McFadden is already involved in research at the […]
Tufts freshman Lydia Collins lived in a family in Ecuador from August until April as part of a gap year program. “I did a program called Global citizen year. The program puts kids in Ecuador, Brazil and Senegal. I wanted to go to Ecuador because I wanted to improve my Spanish.” Tufts’ 4+1 program to […]
Written by Claire Forgan, Tufts University ’16 “We went to China because of the collaborative effort [on titanium dioxide].” Josh Golubovsky, a sophomore at Tufts University, talks about his research with Jordin Metz on water purification and his opportunity to go to China. “I’m working on the production of [titanium dioxide]. I’m working on trying […]
Joanna Koczuk, Harvard College ’16, researches political uprisings in Eastern Europe both pre- and post-collapse of the the Iron Curtain. When she declared her concentration in government, Joanna Koczuk decided to take her interests in comparative politics to the research assistant program at Harvard’s Center for European Studies. While there, she has spent this semester going […]
Written by Claire Forgan, Tufts University ’16 Kit McDonnell is a sophomore at Tufts University that engages in various types of research every summer in Chicago. “I’ve been working in a genetics lab in a natural history museum, Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History, for the last three summers,” she says. “I love that there […]
Written by Claire Forgan, Tufts University ’16 Tufts University undergraduate and Chemistry major Jordin Metz is engaged in laboratory research on innovative water decontamination methods. “The project I’m working on is called the TI02 project, [which is] titanium dioxide. The goal of this project is water purification,” says Jordin. Titanium dioxide, he explains, is a […]
Photo Courtesy of Sara Price After her freshman year, Sara Price became one of Harvard’s pilot students in SHARP, a humanities addition to the triad of summer research fellowships in science (PRISE), the social sciences (BLISS), and business (PRIMO). Interning on a project known as “Philosophy, Education, and Community Action,” Price described the research’s goal […]
Do you already have a research topic? I’m solidifying my interests and exploring a lot of different areas. My general area is women and gender in religion. How did you become interested in this topic? I developed my interest in high school. What I noticed very early on in my readings was that religion offered […]
