William Sturkey is an associate professor in the Department of History and a recipient of the 2020 Hettleman Award for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement.

Senior Chloe Scattergood has spent the past two summers uncovering artifacts in Huqoq, Israel, and plans to pursue a master’s degree focused on colonial-era ceramics from the American East Coast.

Senior Rachel Despard studies how recorded music boosts community collaboration, affects visibility for vulnerable populations, and addresses systematic inequalities.

Megan Raisle is a senior and Morehead-Cain Scholar double-majoring in environmental studies and geography. She studies climate change across disciplines to uncover how to be a more effective advocate for climate action and understand why it sometimes fails.

Han Guo is a senior double-majoring in computer science and statistics and analytics. He researches how to build language technologies like automated image captioning.

Every other year, professors Allen Hurlbert and Keith Sockman lead an avian biology course that explores the physiology, anatomy, evolution, and behavior of birds.

Benjamin Frey is an assistant professor in the Department of American Studies. He studies the Cherokee language, now endangered, in order to recover the social networks, spaces, domains and means of transference that once allowed it to thrive.