In the four years between 1347 and 1351, an outbreak of the bacteria Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of bubonic plague, killed between one quarter and one third of Europe’s population during a pandemic often referred ...

I thought I had scored my dream internship. I got the job at the Pittsburgh City Paper, writing for the Arts & Entertainment section. I fantasized about my summer at the weekly paper, picturing a June full of front row ...

My independent research this summer as a summer intern at Harvard University’s Pluralism Project began efforts to understand the impact of the mainstream news media on Muslim Americans – specifically, how young Muslim ...

There are various motivations that compel individuals to move from one place to another. Within the last few decades, there has been a surge of women primarily from Southeast Asia migrating to marry men in other economically ...

This past summer I interned in France as an English tour guide at the Musée Condé in the historic Château de Chantilly. As an intern I studied the collection at length, conducted tours daily, welcomed guests, as well as ...

As an intern specialist, I worked at Chinese Works of Art Department in Sotheby’s New York this summer. One of the most prestigious auction houses in the world, Sotheby’s taught me how to be a perfectionist in work. We ...

My presentation will focus on choosing the proper field school for students who want to go into archaeology. Specifically, I will be presenting on two separate field school experiences, one positive the other not so much, ...

In Victorian England, the biological processes behind the act of seeing were coming under new scrutiny. These changes in the public’s perception of sight, it has been argued, resulted in what Jonathan Crary calls “a massive ...

Rescue behavior, a specific form of altruism, has been recorded in diverse animal species. Pavement ants (Tetramorium sp. E) are capable of freeing nestmates trapped by antlions (Myrmeleontidae spp.), a common predator of ...

This project analyzes how urban spaces affect human activity and argues that spaces need to adapt over time. I used Piazza San Marco in Florence, Italy as a case study to further explore this idea because it is a piazza I ...