Students with a common description are working as a team, and maintain individual blogs.
Sosie | https://goo.gl/OuoZKv |
A series of Sosia Almasian’s photo essays on the underprivileged in the Capital Region, in collaboration with Sun Paik’s profiles and personal essays, and Tessa Bloomer’s interviews and social media integration.
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Tessa | https://goo.gl/7NMA2x | |
Sun | https://goo.gl/Hpp0cL | |
Sasha | http://goo.gl/kcF2fY | Revitalizing an outdoor student space using environmental psychology research, designed for the students by the students. |
Samantha | http://goo.gl/fOoGJ9 |
Producing electronic music and playing it live at Emma Willard events.
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Chandra | http://goo.gl/5VEl4z | |
Katey | http://goo.gl/T1JANC | Writing, editing, and publishing several short stories. |
Katie | https://goo.gl/NyG6GE | Economic forecasting for growing a small, Fair Trade, women-run, Capital Region business. |
Charlotte | http://goo.gl/kq21L6 | Self-study of the ancient Near Eastern language, Akkadian, as well as completing and publishing a paper on a Mesopotamian religion as considered through ancient prayer texts. |
Claire | http://goo.gl/OHRkpQ | Creating a autobiographical video about a ballerina choreographing a contemporary piece in collaboration with Olivia Baker. |
Katherine | http://goo.gl/3onlq8 | Developing a club on campus to decrease the stigma surrounding mental illnesses. |
Olivia | http://goo.gl/P5QuDF | An exploration of the reciprocal relationship between movement and the mind/brain through dance. |
Bee | http://goo.gl/ovssuG | Studying how stigma, related to mental illness, has affected psychiatric treatment, by using the New York State Museum collection of suitcases from the Willard Asylum. |
Melissa | https://goo.gl/vVLvVM | Developing web simulations for physics class by using GeoGebra. |
Mary | http://goo.gl/AA12kb | Studying the effect of classic economics literature on the modern business world by literature research, and managing a guest speaker series in an economics class. |
Yujin | http://goo.gl/dSIIrb | An art and marketing project to help fund educational scholarships for girls in Guatemala through the design and sale of fair trade bracelets. |
Caroline | http://goo.gl/Bdz4Ec | An experience in journalism, in partnership with the Times Union, The University at Albany and Northeast Public Radio. |
Bella | http://goo.gl/AeiocI |
Designing and coding an app (Emma Tower) for Emma Willard students, to make living easier, including such functions as: lost and found, signing in and out of campus, and tracking laundry etiquette.
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Nana | http://goo.gl/5IpTAk | |
Alice | http://goo.gl/is5IH4 | Finding a way to improve “The Happy Light” (full spectrum lamp) by using other human senses. |
Eugene | http://goo.gl/7nZ8Il | Researching the similarities and differences between chemotaxis of worms and human cancer cells, and considering related cancer treatments. |
Karen | http://goo.gl/u5wOd8 | Studying bacterial pathogens that can exist in food. |
Anjuli | https://goo.gl/CBQNO7 | Translating her grandfather’s 1950s travelogue from Malayalam into English. |
Lexie | http://goo.gl/0rrr6e | Developing an all-girl robotics team for competition, and igniting a passion for engineering in the school community. |
Rebecca | http://goo.gl/YfYOzr | Creating a graphic novel that explores fundamental philosophical questions about scientific theories and religious concepts. |
Abbie | http://goo.gl/mrlIWt | Developing guanosine hydrogels, discovering their large-scale properties, and exploring possible applications. |
Emily B. | http://goo.gl/pd6oc4 | Using a physics cloud chamber to calculate the amount of a radioactive material found in source material. |
Esra | https://goo.gl/6QKmKD | Studying the chemical bonds in thin film deposition, and the properties of materials made in this process. |
SoYoung | http://goo.gl/UujRW1 | Simulating and imaging neuronal activity, in which cAMP and calcium concentrations regulate phosphorylation sites of DARPP-32, controlling dopamine receptor expression. |
Hannah | http://goo.gl/IT9J37 | Creating precise, high resolution DNA nanostructures that can be used to cure disease and for other biological purposes. |
Emily M. | http://goo.gl/BBRKn8 | Characterizing the gene expression in the olfactory system of a transgenic mouse, and relating to diseases of the human brain. |
Sherrie | https://goo.gl/TZOtUV | Experimentally determining the diffusion rate of lead into iron sulfide. |
Sam | https://goo.gl/CTCtPH | Determining if there is a correlation between ice covering in Antarctica and predation on a shelled protist, Pyrgo. |
Sarah | http://goo.gl/9LfZ4y | Designing and coding a web-based game, and other coding experiences. |
Phoebe | http://goo.gl/nySHgK | Shadowing a surgeon and using the acquired knowledge to lead an anatomy and physiology club on campus. |
Lucy | http://goo.gl/rsqTJx | Uncovering the unsung women composers of music history, through presentation and live performance. |
Jessica | http://goo.gl/B5V60h | Making a geologic history of the Emma Willard School stone facades, accessible through a QR coded tour. |
Kristina | http://goo.gl/ET1Esh | Writing, casting, directing, producing and premiering a short film about contemporary young women. |
Tea | http://goo.gl/B0pSpO | Recording, mixing, mastering, and releasing a short jazz album with student musicians. |
Soy | http://goo.gl/LKnPxx |
Illustrating Dr. Karen Gross’s children’s book, Lady Lucy.
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Jasmine | http://goo.gl/doRLHE | |
Kaeley | https://goo.gl/66tAkz | Interning at the Global Institute of Health and Human Rights and learning about grant writing and human rights in the Middle East. |
Emma | https://goo.gl/iaZNDp | Developing logos for clubs and special events on campus. |
Lydia | http://goo.gl/kEiKch | Improving the properties of shape memory alloys in materials engineering. |
Sheena | https://goo.gl/7cc0Sm | Researching the role of mutated myosin genes in the flight muscles of fruit flies, and relating it to the medical treatment of human heart diseases. |
Deena | http://goo.gl/5PYu1r | Researching and designing alternative materials to silicon for more efficient solar panels. |
Kimi | http://goo.gl/kUvtDh | Testing the effects of different variables (like oxygen levels) on the bioluminescence of a bacterium. |
Tessa | https://goo.gl/MS5Inf | Modelling the interactions among water molecules and other chemicals. |
Annabelle | http://goo.gl/QcloVi | Working to prevent the progression of Alzheimer’s disease by using antibodies. |