Wellesley Student-Athletes To Present At 2016 Ruhlman Conference

WELLESLEY, Mass. -- Twenty current Wellesley College student-athletes will present at The Ruhlman Conference today, Wednesday, April 27, at Wellesley College.

Made possible by the Barbara Peterson Ruhlman Fund for Interdisciplinary Study, the Ruhlman Conference is intended to foster collaboration among students and faculty across the disciplines and to enhance the intellectual life of the College. The event will provide an opportunity for students, faculty, staff, friends, family, and alumnae to come together in celebration of student achievement. 2016 marks the 20th year of The Ruhlman Conference. 

More information on The Ruhlman Conference can be found online at: www.wellesley.edu/ruhlman 

Wellesley Student-Athletes Presenting at the 2016 Ruhlman Conference:

Emily Ahn '16 Crew - Foreign Accent Classification

Helen Andersen '19 Track & Field -  The Selfie in American Life

Caitlin Bailey '16 Track & Field - How to Live to Be 100: What Traditional Chinese Medicine Can Teach Us About Living a Happier, Healthier Life

Alexi Block-Gorman '16 Crew - Generalizations of Nil Clean Elements and Rings

Carolyn Chelius '16 Cross Country/Track & Field - Calderwood Seminars in Public Writing: Engaging Interviews

Chloey Garza '19 Crew - Our Storied World: Digital Storytelling as Cultural Anthropology

Kat Goldsmith '16 Soccer - Rape as Spectacle: From Ovid and Livy to Game of Thrones

Mariana Hernandez '19 Lacrosse - "But First, Let Me Take a Selfie": Analyzing the Role Social Media Plays on the 'Selfie Generation'

So Jin Ki '19 Tennis - Cold War Poetics: Defiance in the Margins

Courtney Lang '16 Volleyball - What Makes Each Mind and Brain Unique

Priscilla Lee '18 Track & Field - MuSme

Loren Lock '16 Crew - Ecuadorian Access to Formal and Informal Healthcare in Massachusetts

Kate Loftus '16 Squash - No Guns Me, No Guns You: Strategic Moves in Inglorious Basterds

Nina McKee '16 Crew - Ecuadorian Access to Formal and Informal Healthcare in Massachusetts

Sally Ruderman '16 Crew - Studying DNA Hairpin Stability and Octahedral Rhodium Complex Binding

Anissa Sridhar '16 Field Hockey - Mind-Wandering Tendencies in Younger Adults

Olivia Strobl '19 Lacrosse - "But First, Let Me Take a Selfie": Analyzing the Role Social Media Plays on the 'Selfie Generation'

Lei Wei '16 Golf - Characterizing Structures and Functions of Histone-Derived Antimicrobial Peptides via Experimental and Computational Methods

Charlotte Weiss '16 Crew - Border Crossings: Women and Migration in the Works of Miguel de Cervantes

Erin Yang '16 Swimming & Diving - Studying Drug-Receptor Interactions: Photolabeling Studies Related to Type II Diabetes

For the complete list of presenters at the 2016 Ruhlman Conference, click here.