Class of 2008
Providing the Community with Easy Access to Information
Students work with Professor Debbie Byrd to produce child and health care resources for Easton By Danielle Ward ’08 Students working with Deborah Byrd, associate professor of English, have helped develop two directories meant to serve as childcare and health services resources for the people of Easton and the surrounding areas. The first publication is [...]
George Armah ’08 and Timothy Zirkel ’08 Win Student Scholarships from Apple Inc.
Both will attend World Wide Developers Conference in June George Armah ’08 and Marquis Scholar Timothy Zirkel ’08 have been accepted into the World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) Student Scholarship Program sponsored by Apple Inc. The scholarships provide an all-expense paid trip to WWDC 2008, which runs June 9-13 in San Francisco. Participants have the [...]
Working Toward a Greener Easton
The Tech Clinic’s project to improve the urban ecology of the West Ward. By Mike Cuomo ’09 Mike Cuomo ’09 (Wyckoff, N.J.) is one of six students comprising this year’s Technology Clinic, which is focusing on potential improvements to the urban ecology of Easton’s West Ward. Tech Clinic is a hands-on course founded in 1986 [...]
Cancer Research Provides Students with Numerous Opportunities
Aviva Goel ’08 and Michael Favara ’08 have worked extensively with Professor Emeritus Shyamal K. Majumdar By Carrie Pasternak ’08 Biology majors Aviva Goel ’08 (Maharashtra, India) and Michael Favara ’08 (Aberdeen, N.J.) have spent a large portion of their college careers studying the effectiveness of cancer drugs with Shyamal K. Majumdar, Kreider Professor Emeritus [...]
Students Screen Documentary Films
More than 300 people attend the annual Student Film Festival The annual Student Film Festival drew a crowd of well over 300 people on May 12. Students in the documentary film class taught by Andrew Smith, assistant professor of English and chair of American studies, screened six original films and prizes were awarded. This was [...]
The Intersection of Art and Politics
My research on Frida Kahlo’s life and artwork. By Margarita Karasoulas ’08 Margarita Karasoulas ’08 (Harrison, N.Y.) has completed an honors thesis examining Mexican artist Frida Kahlo’s life and artwork through a political lens. The art and history double major worked with Robert Mattison, Marshall R. Metzgar Professor of Art History, as her adviser. Frida [...]
Professor David Sunderlin Receives Grant from Keck Geology Consortium
Grant will allow him to co-lead a multi-institutional, undergraduate research expedition to Alaska this summer David Sunderlin, assistant professor of geology and environmental geosciences, has received a grant from the Keck Geology Consortium to co-lead a multi-institutional expedition to Alaska in July to study high latitude, ancient terrestrial ecosystems. Geology major Nancy Parker ’09 (Mystic, [...]
Students Will Screen Documentary Films May 12
Fifth annual festival will feature tattoos, brewing, and boxing legend Larry Holmes Students in the documentary film class taught by Andrew Smith, assistant professor of English and chair of American studies, will screen their original films during the Student Film Festival 8 p.m. May 12 in the Williams Center for the Arts. This is the [...]
Richard Krebs ’08 Co-Authors Research in Sociology Compass
Government and law major worked with Rebecca Kissane, assistant professor of anthropology and sociology. By Lesley Kline ’09 Richard Krebs ’08 (Kennebunk, Maine), a government and law major, has published research on trends in welfare reform with Rebecca Kissane, assistant professor of anthropology and sociology, in the academic journal Sociology Compass. The article, “Assessing Welfare [...]
Discovering History’s Stories
Pete Lesher ’90 is curator of collections at Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum By Kate Helm As curator of collections at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md., Pete Lesher ’90 appreciates having attended a liberal arts college where he could rub elbows with engineering students in the classroom “I had History of Technology [...]
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