学生研究项目在学生学者日大放异彩

对于小杰克逊·希克斯来说，他的研究重点是 客户服务行业的语调和性别. Hicks 他说自己在客服工作的经历激发了他的灵感 curiosity into the subject. He said when he assisted customers he 与他的正常音域相比，说话的音调更高. 

因为这门课是围绕语言和如何 这与性别有关，我的研究着眼于是否存在 和这个更高的语调联系在一起，这是传统的 perceived as feminine, and this customer service voice because it's in the service role,” Hicks said.

希克斯说，他的研究考察了为什么客户服务 representatives are trained to use a higher intonation and why the 公众已经习惯了服务人员的声音. 

“它还涉及到客户的水平 satisfaction,” Hicks said. “People seem more approachable when they're using that voice.”

布朗希望这段经历能引起学生们的共鸣 whether they pursue graduate studies or not. 

“仅仅是在我们的课堂之外有一个听众 对学生来说，分享他们的工作更有意义。” Brown said. “It's more motivating. They feel like they're doing something real outside of schoolwork.

“我认为，正因为如此，他们会重新审视它 他们会觉得这门课更有影响力.”

“我想做点不一样的事情，尤其是因为 the Honors College really focuses on broadening people's knowledge 在他们的领域之外，我从来没有真正做过任何相关的事情 Palestine,” Ayesh said. “I saw this as a really great opportunity 我痴迷于我所做的刺绣.”

从7岁起，Ayesh就开始学习和学习 practiced the Palestinian art of embroidery called tatreez, which 通常用来装饰被称为thobes的巴勒斯坦服饰. 

“几个世纪以来，巴勒斯坦妇女都在缝纫 their lives on their thobes,” Ayesh said. “Each symbol has a 对他们的遗产、文化和故事的特殊意义， their narrative and their personal lives.

“每个主题也可以追溯到特定的区域. So you might have a motif that represents an olive branch because they're in farming, but an olive branch for one city could be different than an olive branch for another city.”

虽然阿耶什的项目不会被穿，但她希望能被穿 将完成的挂毯捐赠给格兰德山谷进行展示. She said she began planning the design last summer and stitching in the fall semester. 

“我对这么多工作感到惊讶，”阿耶什说. “When I drafted it, I looked at archives and libraries to study each motif.

“看到这么多的细节让我大开眼界 and the thought that women used to put into their dresses and in their life, basically.” 

“铁杉实际上是一种非常重要的水资源 an ecosystem resource because of how they grow in a stand with a bunch of them all in one area,” Geller said. “They're very vital to keeping the ecosystem around it very cold, which then affects any cold water streams where trout spawn.”

一种检测阿德莱德存在的方法包括 collecting environmental DNA with a specially-designed, 3D-printed plastic disc. 研究人员放置了四张涂有石油的载玻片 将果冻放入盘内，并将其放置在一个东部的底部 hemlock. 载玻片捕捉附近任何动植物的DNA. 

鉴于铁杉树的参天高度，监测 然而，阿德莱德的人口增长也带来了挑战. The adelgid spins a cotton-like protective sack around a segment of a hemlock branch, allowing it to feed and reproduce in relative safety.

盖勒说，另一种数据收集方法需要 用维可牢尼龙搭扣把壁球射进铁杉的鞋面 branches. 研究人员把壁球扔到树冠上 so the fibers of the adelgid’s protective sack stick to the Velcro.

总的来说，盖勒说这段经历让她成为了一个 better student.

“ 我选择这个专业的原因和我选择这个专业的原因 建这个实验室是因为我喜欢到户外去，”盖勒说. “It's as simple as that.

“I like the lab work. I like how fulfilling it is, and I definitely could do research for the rest of my life, and I would be happy with it. 说实话，我想做的是 forestry or wetland management or anything where I'm more hands-on outside work.”

主修计算机科学的克莱默一直在协助 an algorithm to factor the impact of local services across Grand Rapids. 克莱默说，算法决定了邻居的位置 amenities like grocery stores, bus stops, hospitals and restaurants are lacking.

“看到这种相关性很有趣 different services will have and how different areas are affected by that,” Klamer said. 

克莱默说，随着项目的进展 他的班级之间的相关性开始显现. 

“它连接了一切，因为当你在 courses, you learn a lot about many individual topics,” Klamer said. “在做这项研究时，我把很多这样的课程联系起来 together in ways that I haven't before.

“我辅修数学，而且我正在修一些高级别的课程 math like linear algebra, and I didn’t think I'd ever be using it. And yet, here I am using it in a project in a very effective way.”