The Sophian is proud to introduce its first zine, highlighting student art made amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and the switch to remote learning.
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Nadia is a rising senior hoping to do an Honors Thesis in her lab. She was planning on using SURF, the Summer Research and Fellowship Program, to push forward with the experiments. “I’ve never had just one thing that I am working on,” she says, and SURF was an opportunity to focus.
Speaking to friends, family and from personal experience, it has become increasingly evident that, perhaps as a way to cope, our days are now being spent in the bottomless inertia of the internet. Alongside the multitude of mainstream media, Smith offers more off-kilter online options for helping students through this pandemic.
Nueve años después de comenzar su transición de género, Cristina Morales tomó la decisión de emigrar a los Estados Unidos desde Celaya, Guanajuato, México. El año era 1997 y ahí comenzó su carrera como activista y como inspiración para mujeres transgénero indocumentadas.
In a March 27 tweet, President McCartney announced that Smith, in partnership with Cooley Dickinson Hospital, is donating on-campus housing “to support the hospital’s needs…
Photo courtesy of Charlotte Samuels Approximately one month ago, my senior year of college abruptly came to an end and I packed all of my…
Even if you don’t follow the account yourself, if you’re a student with an Instagram at a historically women’s college, you’ve probably seen memes from the account @historicallywomens.c0m. In fact, for many students, this account makes up the bulk of interactions they have with...
Yesterday morning, I woke up smiling at a text from my ex, “I had a dream I made the biggest loaf of banana bread last…
Nine years after beginning her gender transition, Cristina Morales made the decision to migrate to the United States from Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico. The year was 1997, and upon arrival she began her career as an activist and inspiration for undocumented transgender women.
The introduction of the camera trap in the early 2000s allowed us to answer the long pondered philosophical question: if a tree falls in a forest and there is a camera trap around to record it, is the camera trap a useful tool? The rise in popularity of the camera trap allowed humans to have an ever present eye, similar to Big Brother but with nature. Camera traps help researchers collect data on fauna that are typically considered “shy” when using other methods of surveying. This is because camera traps reduce impact from data collection on animal behavior.