Research

The paper sheds light on the changing nature of the brain’s immune response to neurodegenerative, demyelinating diseases, like multiple sclerosis.

This summer, Dev Sethi ’27 and Gabe Pollock-O’Dorisio ’28 are working with Associate Professor of Chemistry Anne Perring on NASA’s INjected Smoke and PYRocumulonimbus Experiment (INSPYRE) to study fire-induced thunderstorms called pyrocumulonimbus clouds.

Rogue waves are exactly what they sound like: enormous, unpredictable waves that come out of nowhere. Olivia Schlegel ’27, double majoring in applied mathematics and economics, has been working alongside Associate Professor of Mathematics Nick Moore for the last two summers to find out when they happen.

Nicolette Fox ’27, a French major with a minor in global public and environmental health, is working on a student-initiated summer research project to analyze writers’ portraits of anxiety in 19th-century French literature, grounded in narrative medicine.

Executive orders are often seen as one of the U.S. president’s most powerful governing tools — a way to shape policy with the stroke of a pen. Lindsay Scheffler ’27 is spending her summer investigating why this picture is incomplete.

The workshop was funded through a 2026 Picker Interdisciplinary Science Institute Interdisciplinary Training Workshop Grant.

Assistant Professor of Physics Ramesh Adhikari has been developing a bio-based energy source from materials that are right under our feet: leaves.

Anna Sims Bartel has been appointed to serve as the Gretchen Hoadley Burke ’81 Endowed Chair for regional studies for the 2026–27 academic year.

Hadley Johnson ’25 has been selected for the NIH Oxford-Cambridge Scholars Program, a transatlantic partnership between the National Institutes of Health, the University of Oxford, and the University of Cambridge.

Jeff Bary, Sweet Family Chair and professor of physics and astronomy, has made preserving dark skies a personal mission. It has led him to partner with Professor of Geography Mike Loranty as well as students and regional institutions to measure light pollution and identify areas for improvement.