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Collaboration of a Different Sort: My Experience with Summer Research

Collaboration of a Different Sort: My Experience with Summer Research

I fell into the Honors Summer Fellows summer cohort program by way of recommendation: a friend who had graduated and been a member of the…
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Sam H Franz
The Value of Interdisciplinary Research

The Value of Interdisciplinary Research

This past summer I got to take part in the Honors Summer Fellowship (HSF) program, which is designed to support and guide students while…
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Shannon Burton
A Week in the Life: Undergrad Research

A Week in the Life: Undergrad Research

Being a student always feels like a lot of work, but being a senior in college is a special kind of overwhelming. I’m double majoring in…
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Shannon Burton
Maintaining Motivation: Tips on Staying Excited about Research

Maintaining Motivation: Tips on Staying Excited about Research

In long-term projects, especially self-guided ones, it can be hard to stay motivated during the tedium of daily research. I experienced…
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Maeve O'Brien
The Bittersweet Truth about Taxing Soda

The Bittersweet Truth about Taxing Soda

What are soda taxes and why do Americans love to hate them?
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Samantha Goldstein
Learn the Complex, Speak the Accessible

Learn the Complex, Speak the Accessible

Theoretical physics, and any science for that matter, needs not to be formidable to the general public.
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Zhiquan Sun
Making it Matter: Choosing a Thesis Topic

Making it Matter: Choosing a Thesis Topic

In English classes, we often talk about the stakes of a text. This is a way of getting at the questions that drive the author or the…
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Miriam Francisco
“If you can do it in five minutes, do it now!”

“If you can do it in five minutes, do it now!”

It seems like most students have heard the admonishment at one point or another: if you can do something, do it now. Get it done, out of…
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Sam H Franz
How Do You Study a Disappearing Town?

How Do You Study a Disappearing Town?

The Excavations at Karanis and Why We Still Care
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Shannon Burton
Research Experiences Are the Value-Added of Higher Education. Our Students Will Tell You How

Research Experiences Are the Value-Added of Higher Education. Our Students Will Tell You How

The title above is clickbait. Research experiences are not the value-added of higher education. They are just one of the most important…
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Mika LaVaque-Manty
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