This panel will discuss the experience of contributing a small piece to a larger research project. Alli was a research assistant for a postdoctoral fellow studying how bees may alter their foraging behaviors as a result of parasitic infection. Isha attended the Harvard Forest Summer Research Program, studying the effects of anthropogenic activities on ground beetle diversity across the United States. Amelia worked collecting and processing data that will contribute to long term research on river herring migration patterns. Teah worked to develop an analytic approach to encode music with the Renaissance Imitation Mass Project. Emma contributed to the ongoing Historic Belén Bioarchaeology Project in New Mexico, uncovering the history of the Indigenous people who were relocated to Belen and ties to the existing community. Each project will speak to the scope of their research when an internship feels like just a drop in the bucket of a larger project.

Panel Moderator:

• Pamela Stone

Speakers:

• Isha Ela Chinniah '24, Biology, Minor: Computer Science, Nexus: Data Science
• Alli Cwalinski '24, Environmental Studies
• Emma Doyle '23, Biology major
• Amelia Ducey '24, Geology, Five College Coastal and Marine Science Certificate Candidate
• Teah Shi, Psychology and Data Science