合作研究(2010)

发布:07/16/2010

Eighty students, 40 faculty, and 45 projects involving countless computers, many microscopes, 一台数字织机. It’s summer, and collaborative research is under way in labs 以及火博体育学院的工作室.

The topics under study encompass a wide range of interests and disciplines. 一个常见的 denominator is the interest level of the student scholars and their excitement for 进行和分析原创性研究. 你可以找到今年的完整名单 这里的合作研究项目.

Those at work include these teams featured in this portfolio:

21世纪的科技遇上了古希腊文本. Classicist Michael Arnush and Ross Jaffe, Class of 2011, are creating an open-source textbook of 希腊 manuscripts in a new Web-based language. 最后的结果将是 a first-of-its-kind attempt to combine 希腊 texts, 英语 translations, and linguistic and historical commentary in one medium accessible to all audiences.

非洲艺术和计算机制图. Art historian Lisa Aronson and Andrew Noone, Class of 2011, are using Skidmore’s Geographic Information Systems to develop multifaceted maps of the African environment for an upcoming Tang Museum exhibition focusing on contemporary African art.

酒精对神经系统发育的影响. Biologist Jennifer Bonner and three students—Andrew Ross, Class of 2012, and Cecilia Culp and Aleksander Krazinski, both Class of 2011—are studying a gene that guides 胚胎中的神经发育. By adding ethanol and charting the nerve’s growth path, they’re modeling fetal alcohol syndrome—all courtesy of approximately 500 fertile 斑马鱼. 这支队伍是有赞助的 by the Weg Scholars fund, established in 2010 by Carol Little Weg '64 and Ken Weg and awarded with a preference to students pursuing 科学和社会科学项目.

计算机多臂织造. Fiber artist Sang Wook Lee and Victoria Manganiello, Class of 2012 have repaired a 30-year-old digitally guided dobby loom, which Maganiello is using to create original designs influenced by her early June visit to the Otavalo region in (Ecuador, where she explored the rich textiles culture and (learned more about the juxtaposition of 艺术与功能.

Declarations of independence in Latin America. Historian Jordana Dym and Randy Abreu, Class of 2011, are comparing the wording, emphases, and nuances in more than a dozen declarations of independence from Central 和南美洲. Their work is being used by the national archives of Mexico for an exhibition marking this fall’s bicentennial of its official rejection of 西班牙语 规则.

绿色植物细胞的功能和运作. Biologist David Domozych and Korena Burgio, Class of 2011, are studying “transformation strategies” in a popular new lab model of a simple green plant, the one-celled alga Penium margaritaceum. The project is using a range of cell- and molecular-bio technologies to investigate how the plant secretes pectin to build and modify its cell walls. 这 team is sponsored by the Weg Scholars fund, established in 2010 by Carol Little Weg '64 and Ken Weg and awarded with a preference to students pursuing projects in the 科学与社会科学.

知觉、记忆和心灵之眼. Pyschologist Hugh Foley—with Beiwen Zhu, Maggie Luckhard, and Mila Woodfield, all Class of 2012 (plus Isabel Cain ’12 and Jaruda Ithisuphalap ’13, not pictured)—is probing the way people often report having seen complete images although they were shown partially masked ones and also how people often recall wider backgrounds for 他们在特写镜头中看到的图像. After experiments with 40 volunteers, they hope to clarify differences in the two kinds of (mis)perception. 这支队伍是有赞助的 by the Axelrod-Porges Scholars fund, established in 2006 by Felicia Axelrod '62 and Robert Porges to support faculty-student teams in the area of the sciences.