Six honors undergrads receive Trewartha Senior Thesis grants

Six Letters & Science Honors students have received $2,000 Trewartha Senior Thesis grants. 

The grant enables students to undertake more demanding and extensive honors senior thesis research projects than might otherwise be possible:

• Emily Anstadt (Medical Microbiology and Immunology) to study if cardiac stem cells can regenerate damaged cardiac tissue.
• Daniel Lecaonet (Physics and Mathematics) to study the non-linear evolution of magneto-shear field instabilities
  
• Craig Marquardt (Psychology)  to study the influence of several human genetic polymorphisms on response to aversive events
  
• Cathrine Olien (Art History) to study ancient Cypriot limestone sculptures at the Ringling Museum in Sarasota, FL
  
• Claire Rydell (Classics and History) to study classical self reliance as expressed in the writing of Ralph Waldo Emerson
  
• Casmir Turnquist-Held (Biology and English) to study whether human neural progenitor cells can be transplanted and integrated into brain tissue

Congratulations!

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Aylward featured online in Nationall Geographic Magazine

Professor William Aylward's archaeological research in Turkey was featured on the web edition of National Geographic Magazine.

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Undergrad classics students garner awards

Two undergraduate classics students were recently honored. Rachel Smith received a Hilldale Award for 2009-10 to work on a project on Helen of Troy with faculty sponsor Professor Patricia Rosenmeyer.

Claire Rydell presented the results of her Sophomore Apprenticeship research on ancient Troy with a poster at the Undergraduate Research Symposium in April. Her poster was one of very few selected for a special event at the State Capitol called “Posters in the Rotunda.”

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