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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.

As general counsel for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, Marc Elias ’90 was in the thick of the long, historic and divisive 2016 election. If he slowed down in its aftermath, it was hard to tell. He represented the Clinton campaign when Green Party candidate Jill Stein pushed for recounts in several states and argued two different redistricting cases before the U.S. Supreme Court on the same December day.

At this time of year In Central New York, planting season is little more than a fantasy — unless you are Emily Moschowits ’16, founder and executive director of Utica Greens. When the last danger of frost has passed, Moschowits and the community partners she is engaging will be ready to get their hands dirty. Utica Greens is a new nonprofit organization that aims to help provide low-income Utica residents with fresh local produce.