Hello all! I’m a rising senior majoring in English (and writing a lot of poetry on the side). My honors thesis focuses on Wallace Stevens’ constructions of belief over his lifetime, and my advisor is the fantastic Christopher MacGowan. I’m so thankful that I’ve been given the opportunity of working on my thesis full-time this…
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May
22
In Search of a “Supreme Fiction”
May
20
Social Snapping Shrimp
My name is Sarah (Sally) Bornbusch and my project explores the evolutionary and ecological origins of a unique social behavior in a genus of marine shrimp. The genus Synalpheus is a wide spread group containing over 100 species of marine coral-reef shrimp and some of these species display a complex social structure known as eusociality, a characteristic…
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May
18
Preparing for the Summer
Hello All! I’m getting ready to come back for the summer, and face some brand new challenges, now that I have finished all of the old ones. Monomer synthesis is set and we are almost through with the crystal structure. Next step: figuring out how to get high MW polymers. May the stoichiometry be ever…
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May
17
Last summer of research
Hello everyone! So this will be my last summer conducting research at W&M! I have researched Multiple Sclerosis via mathematical modeling for the past two summers. This summer, however, I will begin my research on Renal Cell Carcinoma, the deadliest form of kidney cancer. I am really excited to dive into a new topic and…
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May
15
The Beginning
It is almost summer session and I am so excited to get into the Molecular and Cardiovascular Physiology lab and start working. I am still in Williamsburg and it is a ghost town. I cannot wait for everyone to come back!