Named in honor of Professor McGeoch, who passed away in 2019, the ,,McGeoch Fellows assist the computer science department by holding TA hours, grading assignments, and serving as a support system for other students. This month, I caught up with Lesley Zhang ‘21, Jessica Yu ‘22, Maggie Drew ‘22, and Conrad Kuklinsky ‘21. Zhang works…
Environmental Justice: An Interview with Professor Ashwin Ravikumar
The Roots of Environmental Justice Professor Ashwin Ravikumar is an assistant professor of Environmental Studies. His research interests involve deforestation in the Amazon. This semester, he is teaching a class entitled “Environmental Justice” about the intersections between environmentalism and other forms of social justice. I sat down with him (over Zoom) to talk about environmental…
Supporting PEERs in Biology: An Interview with Prof. Josef Trapani
Prof. Trapani joined Amherst College in 2011. He is an Associate Professor in the Biology Department and also contributes to the Neuroscience program. He has chaired the Biology department since July this year. His research involves the use of the model organism larval zebrafish to look at how hair cells encode information which leads to…
The Honorable T. Bella Dinh-Zarr, Ph.D., MPH: A Moving Story
Updated: Oct 1, 2020 A chance encounter at the Texas Medical Center Bus Stop years ago led to the first BIO191 Stories in STEM talk on Wednesday, September 9. For it was at that bus stop that Professor Kim, a new Assistant Professor of Biology, met the Honorable T. Bella Dinh-Zarr, Ph.D., MPH, the first speaker…
The Moss Quantitative Center: An Interview with Director Dr. Innes
With final exams coming up, students are looking for all the extra help they can get. This help can be found at the Moss Quantitative Center, where undergraduate tutors and staff can help with STEM subjects. The Q Center has an interesting history, as Dr. Innes explained: “It actually was created, in its earliest form,…
A Summer at Scrub Pocket
Hello everyone! I’m Julia Zabinska, a rising junior at Amherst majoring in neuroscience and French on a pre-med path. I’ve been writing for the STEM Network since February now, and I am a Summer Reporter for the newsletter. To give you guys a little background on my internships this summer, I started out working with…