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Reflections from my second summer in East Turkana, Kenya
By Saranna Shevalier, SUNY Oneonta This summer I had the opportunity to return to the Koobi Fora Field School and interact with the program in a more dynamic way by mentoring incoming students. Because I was a student at Koobi Fora last year, I had the ability to help ease the anxieties of the students…
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What I Found While Getting Lost
By Landon Soukhanouvong, Monroe Community College When I arrived in Indonesia, I had a clear research project in mind. My project focused on Indonesian folklore and film, especially the story of Roro Jonggrang and Prambanan Temple. Roro Jonggrang is a tragic story about a princess who is forced into a marriage she does not want.…
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The Gold of Piedmont: How Global Research Redefined My Culinary Perspective
By Francisca Tan, Austin Community College In my two decades of culinary leadership, I have placed thousands of ingredient orders, managed complex inventories, and tracked every gram for corporate profitability. I used to view ingredients through the pragmatic lens of economics. However, standing in the rolling, sun-drenched hills of the Langhe region in Piedmont, Italy,…
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Update on Sacred Language Research in Dolpo, Nepal
By Aryeh tenBroek, University of Hawaiʻi Mānoa Bon mantras carved on stones near Pungmo, Dolpa District, Nepal On the evening of July 6th, in the company of the interdisciplinary research team from the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, I left Kathmandu, Nepal’s capital where our team had all gathered just a couple of days prior,…
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Hitting a Wall and Finding a New Path in Australia
By Catherine Thompson, Johns Hopkins University Hello! I’m Catherine, and I’m back to provide an update on my archival summer research project! Again, as I am double majoring in Political Science and Africana Studies, so much of my passion and interests are invested in the sector of Black politics. Studying abroad in Melbourne, Australia for…
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Living in the present!
By Meika Tomita, University of California – San Diego When I look back on these past few weeks, I realize I’ve become both a more independent and a more collaborative researcher which sounds like a contradiction, but it isn’t. I learned the technical side of things: cell culturing, working confidently on confocal microscopes and imaging platforms, dipping into molecular dynamics simulations,…
