CBD grantees Daya Mena, Gabriel Horvath, Priscialla Lu, Tony Zhang, Miranda Harrison, Gillian Toman,
Emily Gear & Robin Roblee-Strauss
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It's CBD's 15th birthday!
Help us kick off our year-long celebration
at Hampshire's Friends & Family weekend,
October 19-21!
(A full schedule and details will be available later this summer.)
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As part of Hampshire’s DIV IV weekend, CBD presented the film,
Bending the Arc
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The film describes the struggles and successes of Drs. Jim Yong Kim, Paul Farmer, and Ophelia Dahl, whose early work in Haiti ultimately developed into a community health model that has changed global health forever. After the film, four Hampshire alums joined in a discussion around issues of global and local health care policy.
Special thanks to these folks for bringing their voices and insights to the program:
Mark Blumberg 03F
, documentary filmmaker;
Khalsa Brown 04F
, herbalist and childbirth educator;
Chemi Chemi 13F
, MPH candidate, Columbia University; and
Ashley Davis Haugen 09S
, cofounder and director of events and marketing, Chronic Fatigue Research Center, Stanford University.
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SUMMER 2018 STUDENT GRANT AWARDS
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Thanks to CBD, 12 Hampshire College students will soon embark on an exciting array of grant-funded summer projects and internships
. The students will perform research and undertake projects that range from an archeological exhibit in Ghana, to an exploration of cross-cultural perspectives on reproductive health and a study of gendered play preferences in children. Each of the grantees will receive funds to defray the cost of their research, including travel, housing, program fees, supplies and equipment.
This round of grant applications was especially competitive, and reflects the high quality of work undertaken by Hampshire students.
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Hannah Davidson
Division II Internship & Projec
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Hannah was awarded two CBD grants. Hannah will investigate research methodologies in maternal health at the UMASS Amherst School of Public Health and then travel to Mexico to look at cross-cultural perspectives on reproductive health
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Emily Gear
Division II Research Project
Emily will undertake a Division II project on the Isle of Foula in Scotland. Emily will collect data, and record oral histories, film and animation footage in order to develop a film about the ways in which geographical displacement is manifest in the human body.
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Nichole Greene
Division II Internship
Nichole will work with Hampshire professor Rachel Engmann at the Christiansborg Archeological Heritage Project in Ghana. Gillian with assist with curating and promoting an exhibit of a previously unseen collection of colonial photographs and daguerreotypes.
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Xinzhu (Cindy) Fang
Division II Internship
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Priscilla Lu
Division II Internship
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Tony (Boming) Zhang
Division II Internship
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Xinzhu, Priscilla & Tony will all work with Hampshire professor Ethan Myers at the Center for Brains, Minds & Machines at MIT. The students will look at aspects of visual perception, computational models for pop-out attention and data analysis for neuroscience.
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Miranda Harrison
Division II Internship
Miranda will conduct research under the supervision of Hampshire professor Jane Couperus. Miranda will work in the Infant Cognition lab to investigate the degree to which sex-specific preferences are inborn, with hormonal origins, and how the influence of gender socialization affects the development and expression of such preferences.
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Zoe Pestana
Division III Internship
Zoe will work in Hampshire’s ERP lab with Hampshire professor Jane Couperus. Zoe will to research the neural correlates of chronic pain and empathy. Zoe hopes her research will improve our understanding of pain and compassion for those who suffer chronic pain
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Gabriel Horvath
Division III Project
Gabriel will create and print a collection of short comics as part of their Division III project. The comics use goblin characters to artfully explore vocabularies and representations of neurodivergence, queer community, mutual care and gender diversity.
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Daya Mena
Division II Internship
Daya secured an internship with the National Institute of Health’s Framingham Heart Study, a longitudinal, multigenerational research project that explores risks associated with cardiovascular disease, as well as the impact of such risk factors on the development of the individual.
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Robin Roblee-Strauss
Division II Project
Robin is creating a collaborative film that explores the experience of living with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Robin hopes the film will add to the growing movement to create more platforms for people to talk openly about their mental health and eradicate stigmas around living with mental illness.
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Gillian Toman
Division I Internship
Gillian was accepted into the Education/Social Work Internship Program at One Heart Source in Cape Town, South Africa, where she will study multicultural education and education as a driver of social change
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STUDENT RESEARCH ENDOWMENT
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As part of our 15th year celebration, we'll be kicking off CBD's official fund drive to complete the Student Research Endowment.
The endowment will ensure that students continue to receive the funding, support and guidance they need to pursue their work at Hampshire and beyond.
Stay tuned for news about the campaign and how you can make your gift mean the most. If you'd like to make a donation now, please do! Your gift can be made on-line at the Hampshire College "
Give Now
" page. Just select
CBD Student Research Endowment
from the “Initiatives” drop-down menu.
Your gift to the CBD Student Research Endowment goes directly to support Hampshire students as they pursue their research projects and internships. Endowment funds will not be used to support office expenses, staffing or any other overhead costs.
If you have any questions about CBD, the endowment, or how to make your donation, please be in touch, we're happy to answer any questions you may have. You can find us at cbd@hampshre.edu, or 413.559-5730.
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Two-time CBD grantee Nicole DelRosso (12F) went on to receive a Fulbright award in Biophysics
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