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Personal Experience Motivates Goldwater Scholars’ Cancer, Alzheimer’s Research
Ellie Mackintosh and Hossein Bakhshandeh are seeking better, more targeted cancer treatments. Katie Barlis is searching for clues to understand and treat neurological disorders like Alzheimer’s Disease.
From Cheaper Insulin to Stemming School Expulsions: Pre-Symposium Preview of Original Student Work With Real-World Effects
They tackle real world problems: Tracking measles outbreaks. Developing better life-saving medications. Making mental health counseling more accessible. Keeping at-risk kids in school and out of prison.
They enliven the arts: Performing on stage. Writing poetry. Producing films. Playing music. Composing music. Painting. Drawing. Sculpting.
That’s just a small taste of what Davidson College students have been up to this year.
The Night World: Kyhl Austin ’18 on the Beauty of Maligned Moths
Kyhl Austin '18 discovered that world on his Tennessee back porch one summer night a decade ago. There lay a royal walnut moth, quite dead, and huge by most moth and 11-year-old-boy standards: six inches across with bright orange, yellow and brown markings. He rushed it inside and gathered his younger brothers around to examine the thing.