Research and Off-Campus Learning at Colgate

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Mm I understand you're doing research this summer. So which professor is overseeing your research project? Professor Siegenthaler? What's the topic or key question of that research? Were researching proteins in the cell and seeing if non essential genes can take over for essential genes when they're knocked out. Have you had any findings thus far in your summer research project? We're still in the process of getting concrete answers. How has this research experience added to your overall academic experience here at Colgate? Well I'm planning to be a molecular biology major. So this research experience has given me a lot of practice using certain methods in the lab. So you are doing research here this summer which Professor is overseeing your research project. I'm doing research with Professor Tim McKay who is in the biology department and the environmental studies. What is the topic or key question of your research? So I'm actually studying invasive jumping worms. Over the summer we've done a lot of fields were trying to find where these jumping groups are in new york state and discover some of the impacts they have on the local ecosystems. What if any findings have you had thus far? Um So far we found that unfortunately there a lot more widespread than we were hoping and it's kind of a bummer because there's not much you can do about jumping worms once they're there and we have a lot left to discover, but we definitely know, we have discovered that they are all over the place. How has this research project added to your overall academic experience at Kobe? I think it's really given me something to look forward to for the future. It gives me a lot to think about for future projects I want to work on. Um, and know that I definitely want to keep doing research in the future. So you're doing research right now in what department economy? So, so who's your professor? What are you studying hypothesis slash findings? So my supervisor is Professor Yang Song and we're looking at the man and supply for computer science graduates are question is why there aren't enough computer science majors considering the relatively high wage premium that the major provides. One of our main hypothesis is that they simply are not aware of the wage premium. To confirm that we're looking at proxies like geographical proximity to cops. If people are more likely to live in Silicon Valley, say they're more likely to have friends or family that work in computer science and hence more likely to join the major. Our main finding is that going to college in West Coast, close to these tech ops, does, does influence once choice of major and it they are more likely to end their computer science afterward.