Economics Department
Last Modified: August 12, 2005
Knapp Interns Nicole Smith DuRand '06 and Tomoyo Nakamuru '07 worked with Ann Velenchik redesigning the site for the Economics Department. The site's new organization features pages on course and degree requirements, the current semester, and economics beyond Wellesley. There is also a site map.

International Macroeconomics
Last Modified: August 8, 2003
Professor Joe Joyce worked with Knapp intern Mirena Chausheva '04 to create a personal web site. The site links to Professor Joyce's research and working papers in international macroeconomics, his courses on macro theory and financial markets, and a web site listing research material on the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank Group and other multilateral institutions.

Trade and Migration Research Paper Guide
Last Modified: August 8, 2003
Joyce Hsu '05 worked with Professor David Lindauer on his web site for Trade and Migration (Econ 212). A central component of this site is a section which guides students preparing research papers on recent trade disputes. The site features selected pointers to reports and downloadable data from the International Trade Commission and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

International Financial Institutions Research Site
Last Modified: August 2, 2001
Professor Joseph Joyce, with Mellon intern Kavita C. Sridhar '02, created a site which lists research material on the international financial institutions with separate listings for the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank Group, and other multilateral institutions. The listings include basic references, books and monographs, published articles, and, most significantly, recent working papers with links to online versions of the papers (or information on how to obtain them). In addition, the site provides links to web sites of international financial institutions and related organizations, as well as sites that deal with international economics. In the summer of 2001, Mellon intern Nora Jarrah '02 updated the site.

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Education Department website
Last Modified: August 10, 2001
Working with Professors Barbara Beatty and Ken Hawes, Mellon Interns Nicole Hatch '03 and Kathy Roche '03 substantially revised and expanded the Education Department website. The site now includes detailed information on courses, the faculty, internships, graduate studies, resources, and teacher education.

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History of Colonial Latin America
Last modified: August 8, 2003
Professor Alejandra Osorio worked with Knapp intern Cristina Greavu '05 to create a web site for History 206 featuring rare manuscripts images, maps, paintings, and engravings, as well as brief selections of baroque music. The site also combines photos taken by Professor Osorio into narrative slide shows. Her photos include excavations in Tenochtitlan and the House of Cortes in Mexico; an Indian market in Ecuador; the Inca Trail; and the terraces at Colca Valley in Peru.

Precolonial Africa
Last modified: August 9, 2002
Professor Lidwien Kapteijns and Knapp intern Jue Wang '04 created a website of digital slideshows for Precolonial Africa (History 264). Images of ancient agrarian kingdoms are particularly extensive. Note: this site is available only to computers on Wellesley's campus.

Medieval/Renaissance Studies
Last modified: July 22, 2002
Working with Professors Valerie Ramseyer and Margaret McGlynn, Knapp intern Shelley Chien '03 created a web site for the interdepartmental major of Medieval/Renaissance studies, explaining the program's interdisciplinary emphasis, course offerings, and opportunities for study abroad. There are also links to Internet resources, including a database of Arthurian texts and images, the Medieval Academy of America, and the Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies.

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Peace and Justice Studies Home
Last Modified: August 8, 2002
Professor Sally Merry and Mellon intern Jennifer Redfearn D-2 redesigned a site for this interdepartmental program in the summer of 2000. Notable features include information on internships, volunteer opportunities, career opportunities, Wintersession in India, and events. In addition, there are links to graduate study and research institutions, women's organizations, governmental sites, think tanks, online electronic journals, and news sources. Knapp intern Jiayang Chien '05 worked with Professor Craig Murphy in the summer of 2003 to update the site to reflect new faculty in this program as well as new course offerings and descriptions.

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Intro to Research Methods in Political Science
Last Modified: August 28, 2006
Interns Annie Choi '07 and Adilia James '07 worked with Assistant Professor Hahrie Han to create a website for the Introduction to Research Methods course. The site will contain information on research design, regression, and hypothesis testing, as well as SPSS data sets on such topics as the Civil War and ethnicity, ideology of U.S. Senators, and House general elections between 1946 and 2002.

Health Politics and Policy
Last Modified: August 12, 2005
Knapp interns Amy Wong '06 and Cathleen Chuang '07 worked with Professor Tom Burke to design a site for his new course (POL1 317). The site includes the course schedule, assignments, and six study guides, and will eventually include links to student group research projects.

Photos of Daily Life in China in 1972
Last Modified: August 6, 2004
Knapp interns Giuliana Funkhouser '04 and Joyce Hsu '05, Devyani Parameshwar '06 and Mimi Lai '06 worked with Professor William Joseph in 2003 to create a searchable, Internet-accessible database of images of daily life in China during the Cultural Revolution, photographed by Professor Joseph in 1972. Over 700 slides were digitized by the interns and then annotated by Professor Joseph. The database is organized by geographic region within China, as well as by topics such as agriculture, arts, education, health care, industry, and politics. Other sections of the site include an essay by Professor Joseph on the circumstances that allowed him to visit China during this period, and a brief overview of the Cultural Revolution, as well as suggested readings and selected internet links. The site also features an interactive map and iternerary of Professor Joseph's trip.

Political Science 200 - American Politics
Last Modified: August 10, 1999
Professor Tom Burke and Mellon intern Amy Barao '01 created a web site for the introductory course on American Politics. In addition to course information and schedules, students will also be able to use the site to prepare for exams with online lecture notes and exam questions, answer class surveys, and review their assigned readings with online study-guides about federalism, interest groups, public opinion and the media, the presidency, congress, and the judiciary.

Tiananmen Square Video
Last Modified: August 9, 1999
During the crisis in Tiananmen Square from early May to early June of 1989, Professor William Joseph recorded news broadcasts that followed the conflict in China as it progressed. Mellon intern Marlowe Shaeffer '01 edited these videos, condensing the relevant portions onto one cassette for Professor Joseph to use in Political Science 208 (Politics of China). This series of broadcasts will give students a dynamic sense of the events in China as they unfolded at the time.

Political Science 215 - Courts, Law, and Politics
Last Modified: August 30, 1998
Professor Thomas Burke, working with Keck intern Caroline Tsai '99, developed a site for Political Science 215 (Courts, Law, and Politics). This site provides detailed information about the course, including the syllabus, lectures, and assignments. The lecture notes contain links to graphs and charts to facilitate classroom lectures and individual studying. Additional resources relating to the course, including the Federal Judiciary Center and a multimedia database of U.S. Supreme Court decisions featuring audio recordings of oral arguments, are also listed as links to sites on the Web.

Web Forms Allow Analysis of News Media
Last Modified: January 30, 1998
Professor Marion Just of the Political Science department studies the news media by comparing different stories about the same event. Her students read an article or watch a broadcast, then fill out a form (previously done on paper), answering over 100 questions about the topic and whether the reporters portray it favorably or unfavorably. Students can enter their answers into web forms from any networked computer, where it goes directly into a Filemaker Pro database. At the end of the semester, students from both Stanford and Wellesley will have entered over 400 articles, and will then be able to easily move the accumulated data to Excel and SPSS for graphical and statistical analysis.

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Research Methods in Personality Psychology
Last Updated: August 13, 2007
Intern Ariel Hathaway '09 worked with Professor Julie Norem to create a course website for research methods in personality psychology (PSYC 312R). The website will help prospective students to learn more about the course and will allow enrolled students to access resources that will assist them in completing their own research projects.

Tracy Gleason & the study of childhood imaginary companions
Last updated: August 13, 2007
Intern Dorothy Brown '09 worked with Associate Professor Tracy Gleason to redesign her Psychology website. The site includes syllabi and descriptions of Professor Gleason's courses as well as information about her research. The site features a section devoted to her study of childhood imaginary companions, a description of her findings, and information for people who are interested in participating in the studies.

False Belief animations and videos
Last Updated: August 13, 2007
Interns Ariel Hathaway '09 and Ran Tao '09 created a series of videos and animations for Assistant Professor Jennie Pyers' studies on false-belief understanding. Ran created a Flash animation and Ariel shot and edited a video, both of which will be used to measure one’s ability to understand that people can have beliefs that are false. The animations and videos developed by Ran and Ariel are unique in that they are non-verbal measures that can be used to test false-belief understanding in low-verbal populations.

Videos of children's relationships with imaginary companions
Last updated: August 12, 2005
Knapp intern Yang Song '08 worked with Professor Tracy Gleason in the Psychology Department creating DVDs of Gleason's research on children's imaginary companion for easier coding of behavior. For three subjects, audio recordings were combined with silent video recordings to create synchonized video with audio. Each DVD is divided into five chapters (Farm, Doctor Kit, Toys, Experimenter Questions, and Mom Questions).

Clinical Psychology
Last updated: August 12, 2005
Knapp interns Tiffany Mok '06 and Yang Song '08 worked with Professor Sally Theran to create a personal website reflecting her work as a clinical psychologist. This website includes Professor Theran's curriculum vitae; sample syllabi for courses she teaches in abnormal psychology, introduction to psychology, and child and adolescent psychology; and her research on factors that protect against developmental psychopathology in childhood and adolescence.

Shyness, Identity Orientation, and Narrative Identity
Last updated: August 8, 2003
Professor Jonathan Cheek worked with Knapp Intern Tara McGovern '04 to revise a web site on his courses and research. The site features several self-scoring scales, including "How Shy are You?" and two questionnaires on Aspects of Identity. The section on Narrative Identity (Psych 339) explores mermaids and other female water spirits as cultural images, with images from Professor Cheek's collection on La Sirene of Haitian Vodou.

Social Influence - Psych 240
Last Modified: August 13, 2002
Knapp intern Kristine Amari '05 worked with Professor Robin Akert creating a web site for a new course on Social Influence (Psych 240). The course focuses on how emotion, gender, and culture are used to maximize the effectiveness of advertisements, and how stereotypes are both perpetuated and refuted. The site features annotated links to databases of print and television advertisements.

Defensive Pessimism and Personality Psychology
Last Modified: August 3, 2001
Psychology Professor Julie Norem and Mellon Interns Natalie Ng '02 and Leslie Chang '04 created a website on the courses that Professor Norem teaches; her research; and information about her book, The Positive Power of Negative Thinking. A notable feature is a twelve-question quiz (using JavaScript) that tells users their level of defensive pessimism.

Psychology Department site
Last Modified August 10, 2001
Professor Margery Lucas, administrative assistant Sarah Barrett, and Mellon Interns Sena Tang '03 and Kathy Roche '03 redesigned and substantially extended the Psychology Department website. In addition to providing information about courses, the major and minor, and student activities, the site now also includes information on internships, faculty members, and a slideshow of the department's history since its founding in 1891.

Developmental Psychology
Last Modified: August 8, 2002
Psychology Professor Tracy Gleason and Mellon Intern Nondini Naqui '02 created a website with course information and syllabi for Psychology 207 (Developmental Psychology), 207R (Research Methods in Developmental Psychology) and 345 (Early Relationships). The site includes information about Professor Gleason's research on imaginary companions, as well as links to organizations that advocate for children or do research on children's issues. In the summer of 2002, Knapp intern Regina Liang '04 added digitized video clips of behavior and psychological development in infancy and childhood to this site. (This portion of the site is accessible only to computers on Wellesley's campus and requires QuickTime 5.0 or higher.)

Psychology Statistics Review
Last Modified: August 2, 2000
Susan Archambault of the Psychology Department and Mellon intern Nina Schloesser '02 created a review site for students who have taken the 200-level statistics course. The site provides a quick reference to the basic statistical tools and concepts covered in lab. Students who visit the site can take an online review test, follow a decision tree to determine which test is appropriate for their dataset, or directly access a list of lab procedures with all the information needed to run a test and interpret the output.

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Society Journal
Last Updated: August 13, 2007
Intern Diana Eastman '08 worked with Professor Jonathan Imber to design a website for the social science and public policy journal, Society. The site provides the latest edition's table of contents, the covers of past issues, a message from the editor-in-chief, and information from the journal's publisher. The site also features links to content elsewhere on the Internet related to social science and public policy.

Evaluating Voice Recognition Software for Sociology
Intern Ewelina Oleszek '10 worked with Assistant Professor Joe Swingle and Professor Lee Cuba to evaluate the possibility of using Dragon Naturally Speaking Voice Recognition Software for automated digital transcription of interviews recorded for their Student Panel Research. The project focuses on testing different software/hardware settings and recording environments that could optimize the quality of the transcriptions.

Sociology 140 -- Geography and Society
Last Modified: August 30, 1998
Anne Knowles, Wellesley's Mellon Fellow in Geography, worked with Keck interns Ali Kraley '01 and Alexis Dinniman '00 to develop an on-line archive of photographs, maps, and satellite images of the greater Boston area. Students will use the archive this fall in constructing a Web-based virtual field trip of Boston as part of their coursework in Professor Knowles' introductory Geography course. Her goal is to enable introductory-level students to "do" geography by giving them the intellectual tools employed by professional geographers. The project will require students to use Web page development software and computer mapping software, as well as to cultivate a greater visual and analytical sensitivity to the environment around them.

Digital Video Enlivens Sociology Students' Papers
Last Modified: February 14,1994
Professor Tom Cushman's sociology classes analyze mass media, and he requires his students to use portions of this media in their papers. Confronted with students' inability to include "quotations" of such media in typewritten papers, he set up a digital video lab to allow students to include digitized images from media other than written in their papers. Students turn in their papers on removable cartridges, allowing Cushman to review their full extent, including digitized images and video clips, rather than restricting them to text.

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Asian American Women's Studies
Last Updated: August 13, 2007
Interns Diana Eastman '08 and Dorothy Brown '09 created a website for Asian American Women's Studies courses taught by Associate Professor Elena Creef. The website includes information about three courses as well as links to non-Wellesley websites focused on the field of Asian American Women's Studies.

Family and Gender Studies
Last Modified: August 4, 2002
Knapp intern Jue Wang '04 worked with Professor Rosanna Hertz to create a Family and Gender Studies resource site. The site featured links to electronic databases such as Contemporary Women's Issues and GenderWatch; citations of recent articles in the popular press on topics such as changing American families, diversity and immigration, economy and work, the elderly, gay marriage and family, and poverty and welfare; citations for eight major print reference works; and web sites on such issues as abortion, adoption, carework, gay family, motherhood, new reproductive technologies, and work and family social policy. In January 2006, Professor Hertz retired this site when the entire Women's Studies site was revised.

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