Hi. My name is Ksenija Kapetanovic, I am a rising senior at the College studying Neuroscience and Biochemistry, and am about to embark on my honors thesis research!
Apr
22
Brief Greetings.
Hello! My name is Kenay Sudler. I am a rising senior at the college double majoring in Linguistics and Psychology.
Apr
22
A mathematical approach to studying the Blue Crab
Hello everyone! My name is Tim Becker and I am about to enter my senior year here at the College. I am a mathematics major and I love anything to do with math, sports, reading, and nature. I’d like to just give you a brief introduction into how I became so caught up in mathematics, as well as some detail concerning the research that I am doing.
Apr
22
Edith Wharton and Children’s Spaces
Hello! My name is Katelyn Durkin and this summer I will be studying the relationship between Edith Wharton’s portrayal of children’s spaces and contemporary theories of child development. I am very excited to have to have the opportunity to explore Wharton’s novels extensively and to produce an original critical work.
Apr
22
Rehabilitating the Consequentialist View of Moral Responsibility
Hello everyone! My name is Adam Lerner, and I’m a junior here at the College majoring in both philosophy and psychology. Although I’m officially doing my honors thesis in the philosophy department, finding satisfactory answers to the questions I’ll be pursuing will also require getting out of my philosophical armchair and conducting some empirical research as well. In order to see why, let me give you some background to the philosophical problem I’ll be tackling.
Apr
21
Getting my feet wet in research…and tea
Hi everybody!
My name is Kaitlin, I am junior here at the lovely College of William & Mary, and my chosen scholastic path is that which rambles through the fields biological. After taking virology in the fall, I found myself increasingly consumed by questions pertaining to, you guessed it, viruses. More abundant than bacteria and much less studied, these biological entities are on the very cusp of life! I was possessed by my curiosity which led me into the Williamson Lab here on campus. Since this is our first meeting, I will simply give you a brief glance at where my project has been, and where it is headed. Here goes!
Apr
21
The Relationship Between Diet and Cognition
Hey all! My name is Stephanie Kane; I’m majoring in neuroscience and working with Dr. Cathy Forestell in the Eating Behavior and Child Development Research Center. I’ve been involved in this lab since this past summer working on a questionnaire-based survey investigating eating habits and personality traits associated with vegetarianism in the student population. Along those same lines, with my honors thesis I intend to investigate the complex interaction between the brain and eating behavior.
Apr
21
A Brief Introduction
Hello everyone! My name is Luke and I’m a junior at the College majoring in biology and (hopefully) minoring in mathematics. Over the course of these blog posts, it’s going to be really important for me to effectively communicate not just what I’m doing, but also why the questions I’m trying to answer are important and how answers to these questions contribute to a greater understanding of biology. To that end, I’ll try to include some background information, theory, or a summary of relevant literature, and then provide a brief update on what I’ve been up to in the lab in each blog post. My hope is that through these posts, you will be able to garner an understanding of the process by which scientists go about asking and testing interesting questions.
Apr
21
A New Voice: An introduction to SNCF’s role in the Holocaust
My Honors Thesis will be on SNCF, France’s national railway company’s, role in the Holocaust in Vichy France and their recent apology. Here is the testimony of Mathilde Freund, a holocaust survivor who witnessed trains leaving from Lyon in Vichy France:
Apr
21
Greetings
My name is Chris Tyson and I am conducting research this summer under my adviser Matthias Leu as part of the Applied Conservation and Ecology Research (ACER) lab in the Department of Biology.