Students in the News

Sophia Frank ('24): Wellesley Students Conduct Research for the Real World: Sophia Frank discusses her research; Hemispheric dominance in HVC is experience-dependent in juvenile male zebra finches

Alex Edwards ('23): Spotlight on Wellesley article: I Can See the Ties Between Every Single Class I've Taken

Sylvia Mutua ('22): Graduating Neuroscience Major Sylvia Mutua remembers telling her parents, 'The last thing I'll ever major in is neuroscience'

Cesiah Gomez ('22): Beckman Scholar Cesiah Gomez discusses her senior thesis project on the microbiome.

Melanie Rumbel ('20), Kate Gallison ('21), Jody Platto ('15): Internship to Study Metachromatic Leukodystrophy at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) at the University of Pennsylvania

Aditi Abhayakumar ('21): Finding the Hidden Good When Summer Internship Plans Change

Rachel Frazer ('20): Class of 2020 Jazz Musician Rachel Frazer Will Pursue Neuroscience PhD, Explore Connections Between Music and the Brain

Heesu (Ally) Kim ('21): Goldwater Scholarship recipient Heesu (Ally) Kim ’21 hopes her future research will create new psychiatric diagnostics and improve current psychiatric models.

Kimaya (Kimy) Lecamwasam ('21): Finding the Connection Between Neuroscience and Music

Alexis Lowe ('17): Schiff Fellows Selected to Pursue Senior Honors Thesis Projects

Alex Martinez-Lopez ('22): Not Afraid of Challenge: Goldwater Scholars Pursue Opportunities in STEM Research

Zoe Matticks ('18): Dear Wellesley: Alexandra Beem ’18 and Zoe Matticks ’18 Write to Us from Hanoi, Vietnam

Nicole Ntim-Addae ('20):  Wellesley Student Writes for Global Magazine that Covers Human Rights Abuses

Harshini Raman ('22): Not Afraid of Challenge: Goldwater Scholars Pursue Opportunities in STEM Research

Stephanie Song ('18): Senior thesis and publication was featured on the Daily Shot.

Olivia Strobl ('19): Wellesley Collaborates with Glasswing Ventures to Engage Students in Artificial Intelligence

Megumi Takada ('17): Nine Wellesley Alumnae Begin a Year Abroad as Recipients of Fulbright Grants

Cindy Zhou ('20): Three Generations Prize for Writing in the Sciences 2019-20: The Dark Side of the Night Owl Life: Social jetlag causes "night owls" who follow "early bird" schedules to perform worse academically.  NEUR 325 Neurobiology of Sleep, Learning and Memory, Sharon Gobes