Research and Active Learning
Student research
Environmental pollution and academic performance
The research team clockwise from upper left—
Anuli Iloabachie, Alex Harris, Jennifer Hanlon, Jennifer Griffith, Courtney Seidler, Kristen Domurad, Kaoru Kawashima
For their capstone project, students in Professor London's course, Sociology 276: Environment and Inequality, examined the relationship between student academic performance and the distance of Worcester schools from polluting industries.
Project Description | Map | Table 1 | Table 2 | Table 3 | Recorded Data
Other undergraduates who have engaged in research and internships:
- Adrien Uretsky, Orthodox Judaism
- Mikaela Luttrell-Rowland, corporate ownership
- Emily
Stein, Sally Stark-Dreifus, and Anna Lawless,
the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System
Faculty research
Read about the research of some of our faculty:
- Parminder Bhachu and cultural identity in a global society
- Shelly Tenenbaum and Jewish self-help societies
- Patricia Ewick and the relationship between law and science
- Robert Ross and sweatshops