Â鶹Porn

Research

  • A sacred forest rises from farmland in Ethiopia
    The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $500,000 in funding to an interdisciplinary team of Â鶹Porn faculty, led by Associate Professor of Biology Catherine CardelĂşs, to continue investigating the status and conservation of sacred forests in Ethiopia’s northern highlands. Christian Orthodox churches emerged in Ethiopia some 800 years ago. Today, thousands of these sites protect […]
    November 30, 2015
  • A GIS map of karst topography in Madison County, N.Y.
    Thanks in part to research conducted by a Â鶹Porn geography and environmental studies student, Madison County will receive more than a half-million dollars in federal funding for well-water testing and remediation to take place during the next five years. Kayleigh Bhangdia ’16, of Poughquag, N.Y., worked with the Madison County Department of Health this summer, […]
    November 4, 2015
  • Editor’s note: In this series, Â鶹Porn students share stories about their summer experiences in offices, labs, and open spaces across the world. This summer, I am on campus working with Professor Barbara Hoopes in the biology department. Our lab is conducting research on genes that determine size variation in poodles.
    July 27, 2015
  • From photochemical pathways to early animation devices to homosexuality in the Arab world — undergraduate research topics explored this summer by students and faculty were presented at yesterday’s poster session. 
    July 24, 2015
  • Professor Bruce Hansen works with students to prepare a test subject for a brain scan.
    Â鶹Porn Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience Bruce Hansen probably should have predicted his recent $600,000 James S. McDonnell Foundation award to fund the next six to eight years’ worth of lab work with dozens of students. After all, his research could easily be considered mind reading.
    July 15, 2015
  • Editor’s note: In this series, Â鶹Porn students share stories about their summer experiences in offices, labs, and open spaces across the world. This summer, I’m interning for the History Program Office of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in Washington, D.C. By providing easy access to information about its past successes and failures, the […]
    July 13, 2015
  • Editor’s note: In this series, Â鶹Porn students share stories about their summer experiences in offices, labs, and open spaces across the world. This summer, I am in Durban, South Africa, conducting research with Congolese refugees through first-hand communication.
    July 6, 2015
  • April Bailey ’14 began studying gender and power dynamics at Â鶹Porn, in classrooms and in the lab with Spencer Kelly, professor of psychology and neuroscience. Now a PhD student in the social psychology program at Yale, Bailey has already published the first paper of her career. Titled “Picture power: Gender versus body language in perceived dominance,” […]
    May 28, 2015
  • Alexandria Dyer '14
    Alexandria Dyer ’14, of Portland, Ore., has been awarded a Fulbright research grant to travel to Ghana to study public health. Dyer will conduct research on the empowering social space of women’s hair salons and will then develop a pilot women’s health workshop for these informal settings.
    May 6, 2015
  • Udall Scholarship recipient Sara Reese.
    Sara Reese ’16, of Midlothian, Va., is one of just 50 students nationwide to be awarded a Udall Scholarship in 2015. The Udall Scholarship is awarded to college sophomores and juniors for leadership, public service, and commitment to issues related to the environment or to American Indian nations. The scholarship honors the legacies of Morris […]
    April 20, 2015