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How do kin support young women in their transitions to adulthood? Research by sociology professor Janel Benson and Anastassia Bougakova ’16 shows the complex ways that kin networks help young women during this critical time.

Last summer, the 2017 Lampert Institute Fellows spread out across the globe to conduct three months of research. The fellows learned about sustainability, nuclear power, special education,  and much more; they returned to ��ҹ���� in the fall to share their completed projects with their peers. The Lampert Institute for Civic and Global Affairs integrates on-campus […]

��ҹ���� political scientists are sharing their research related to major world issues this week in the Washington Post’s Monkey Cage analysis section.

At the annual research symposium of the Keck Northeast Astronomy Consortium, hosted by ��ҹ���� on Oct. 21, students from eight liberal arts universities gathered to present their summer research findings.

Aubreya Adams, ��ҹ���� assistant professor of geology, is one of 10 principal investigators from nine universities teaming up to deploy the single largest collection of seismometers ever assembled along the Alaskan Peninsula. Relying on $4.5 million in National Science Foundation grant funding and a fleet of airplanes and ships, the seismic experiment will place […]

��ҹ���� researchers partner with an alumnus to explore New York’s opioid epidemic.

The technologies in science fiction films like Gattaca and Blade Runner may seem light-years away, but the development of a gene-editing technique called CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) is bringing our society closer to these futuristic worlds than ever before. During her talk titled “CRISPR: The Genome Editing Revolution” on June 29, Assistant […]

Merit-based financial aid in the form of scholarships and grants is intended to ease the burden of a student’s debt load, but is it possible to have too much a good thing? Some studies suggest that students who receive merit-based aid may be deterred from pursuing a major in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) […]

��ҹ���� students have fanned out across the globe to apply their liberal arts know-how in a variety of real-world settings. They are keeping our community posted on their progress. Tim Englehart ’18,  a sociology major from Newburyport, Mass., wrote this dispatch about his research with Janel Benson, associate professor of sociology. Last semester, I began […]