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Grant Kiefaber ’19, is spending most of his summer researching how Muslim refugees have integrated into the city of Utica, N.Y., near College Hill. So far finding people to interview has been a challenge, albeit a tasty one.

Shannon Boley ’17 has a new prized possession — a Harvard Divinity School baseball cap, acquired after she was accepted into the school’s master’s of theological studies program. She’s working to devise her own concentration in religion, peace and pluralism within that program.

From his first communication course, the discipline hit home for Vincent Tran ’18. He began to think about how a person communicates will vary depending on the context or environment.

His stack of transcripts is 120 pages deep. Erich Wohl ’18 interviewed 16 African American Hamilton alumni about their experiences with race in the workplace for his summer research project.

For a couple of reasons, Garth Robinson ’19 finds himself devoting a summer to research in education, even thought it is neither his major nor his minor. Robinson has a long-held personal interest in his topic — a tiny neighborhood school.

After taking film courses with Professor of Art History Scott McDonald, Ghada Emish '19 got serious about discovering why the film genre she loves — Egyptian musicals — fizzled. With an Emerson Grant from the College, she's on the trail of the answer.

Bridget Lavin ’18's summer research stretches from the federal statute that covers sexual violence at schools to the stories of survivors of that violence.

Her personal history, worldview and some classroom inspiration shaped Kaygon Finakin ’19’s summer research project — drilling down into the underdevelopment of several Caribbean countries.

Omar Beesley '20 and Spencer Woolfson '20 study "word embedding," a modern technique that associates words with vectors and then uses linear algebra to discover links among words in large data sets.

Beachcomber Katie Veasey ’17 developed an ongoing research project that earned her a chance to speak at the American Chemistry Society National Meeting in April. For an undergraduate, that’s a significant honor.