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Next door: Neighbors Need Not
By Aleksandra Woźniak, Johns Hopkins University After returning from my travels, I feel as though I have stepped into a world separate from the one I have inhabited throughout the summer. Or perhaps it is the perspective I have gathered that has suddenly made the familiar seem distant. Somewhere between airport gates, where the language…
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Ethics and Value Alignment as an Early Career Scientist
By Lila Alvarado, University of Missouri–Kansas City My summer research experience was challenging in multiple ways. I am grateful for the experience, as I saw incredible geologic landscapes, including an active volcano, got to laugh with and hear the stories of some incredibly kind people, and learned my Spanish comprehension is better than I previously…
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Beyond the Classroom: Field Research in Costa Rica
By Wren Atteberry, Austin Community College Conducting research and surveying trails in the forests and wetlands of Costa Rica was a truly unique and transformative experience that showed me the side of science I have always dreamed of: one that you can’t attain in a classroom setting. Although things did not always go smoothly according…
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An Ocean Apart, Speaking the Same Language
By Isabel Ball, University of Missouri–Kansas City (Photo taken at Piazzale Michelangelo in Florence, Italy) When I applied for funding to conduct research in Florence, Italy, I thought I knew exactly what I was signing up for. I was going to collect concert data, compare musical programming in Florence and Kansas City, write a research…
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Pānī in Patan
By Lily Beckerman, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Hi all! This is Lily again, writing from home this time after returning from Nepal. This experience was unlike any other in my life and it has grown me so much as a researcher and student! Networking in a foreign country for research connections, meeting other researchers,…
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The Lessons Beyond the Lesson Plans
By Landen Broocke, William & Mary I returned from the Balkans just a few days ago, and I am incredibly grateful to be able to look back on what was one of the most meaningful and transformative opportunities of my undergraduate career. I came home with a newfound appreciation for Bosnian coffee (and perhaps a…
