LEAP: doing, learning, presenting
From solar cells and architecture to an athletic app and teaching, students spoke about their internships and research at the 2016 LEAP presentations.
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From solar cells and architecture to an athletic app and teaching, students spoke about their internships and research at the 2016 LEAP presentations.
Professor Mara Breen studies how we “hear” the words we read, and what happens when the brain expects one word but gets another.
Film studies students explore motion-controlled videography in the MHC Makerspace.
Mount Holyoke professor teaches ecology through wetlands restoration on campus.
The Hollings award will help Erin Jones ’17 develop her deep love of oceanography by providing academic funding, contacts, and a paid research internship.
All Mount Holyoke College students are guaranteed one paid internship. This biology major landed lab work each semester, and paid research jobs every summer.
Biologist Koty Sharp ’98 employs metagenomics to reveal intricate relationships between interdependent organisms at sea.
Think globally, act locally. Long before that philosophy was being touted on bumper stickers, Mount Holyoke students were putting it into practice. One environmental studies class tackled some of the biggest global issues of our time by staying right on campus.