A hundred students received grants to support 10 weeks of summer research.
Projects covered a range of topics: nonconformist gender presentation in stories of courtly love and other high medieval source material, disability justice and racial equity in high school classrooms, what honeybee brain science can show about Parkinson’s disease, and more.
Devin Anderson ’22 spent his summer feeding dogs for science. His research is shedding light on how domestication has changed dogs on the cognitive level.
Clarissa Troutman ’22 is digging into the so-called “marine methane paradox." Working alongside her faculty advisor, she collects samples of seawater and plankton from Commencement Bay, enriches them in the lab, and then measures their methane concentration to help scientists understand the role of plankton in the global carbon cycle.
Allie Highsmith ’22 studies the impact of racism and xenophobia against East Asian Americans with the hope of raising awareness among her peers.
Adam Schmidt ’23 dives into the mysteries of Parkinson’s disease with the help of Puget Sound's honeybees.
