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Individual and Communal Medicine During the Black Death of 1347-1351
(2014-06-03)
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 ...
Lessons from Beyond the Classroom: a Personal Reflection on my Summer at the City Paper
(2014-06-06)
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 ...
Experiencing Media: The Boston Marathon Bombings
(2014-06-06)
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 ...
Marriage Migration in Singapore and South Korea Reflections on Field Research
(2014-06-06)
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 ...
Chantilly: An International Treasure of Art & Culture
(2014-06-06)
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 ...
A Taste of the Auction House
(2014-06-06)
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 ...
Be Careful Who You Dig For
(2014-06-06)
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, ...
From “Wholesome Discipline” to “Something Fatal”: Portraiture in the Victorian Novel
(2014-06-27)
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 ...
Exploring the Link Between Rescue Behavior and Experience in the Pavement Ant, Tetramorium sp. E
(2014-05-28)
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 ...
Creating Functional City Spaces: A Minimalistic Approach to Redeveloping Piazza San Marco in Florence, Italy
(2014-06-27)
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 ...