We did research in various offices, from Clapp Laboratory to Kathmandu, Nepal. While we differed in geographic location, we were all immersed in varied independent research, navigating academia as undergraduate scholars. We tested new survey sampling techniques, analyzed governance conflict trends, investigated cultural differences in social attention, and developed novel research projects. Kate worked with the MHC Math/Stat departments to research the power of respondent-driven sampling. Working at the Harvard Business School, Kalki planned the launch of a new project to understand the impact of AI on community college students’ performance on knowledge-intensive tasks. Anusha worked with a peacebuilding nonprofit to analyze trends in governance conflict areas including political, natural resource, development, and ethnocultural occurrences in the context of Nepal. At Stanford’s social psychology SPARQ lab, Setareh cleaned survey data, generated stimuli, developed coding schemes, and ran live participant experiments to gain a deeper understanding of cultural models.

Moderator: Kelly Woods, Associate Director, Career Advising

• Exploring Civilians Roles in Governance Conflicts: A Statistical Approach with Governance monitoring Center Dataset
  Anusha Lamsal ’25 Data Science & Psychology major
• Bridging Social Science and Technology through Generative AI Research
  Kalki Srinivasan ’25 Psychology & Computer Science double major
• Statistics Research at MHC - Causal Inference for Respondent-Driven Samples
  Kate Koenig ’26 Statistics major
• Integrating Social Science and Technology
  Setareh Greenwood ’25, Sociology & Religion double major