Wellesley Student-Athletes Present at Annual Ruhlman Conference

WELLESLEY, Mass. — Twenty-one Wellesley College student-athletes will present at today’s Ruhlman Conference, an annual celebration of student achievement that is intended to foster collaboration amount 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.

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

Wellesley Student-Athlete Presenters: 

Kendall Bianchi ’15, Basketball - Puzzles in International Security: Producing Political Science Honors Theses (Panel Discussion)

Charlotte Benishek ’16, Crew - Designing Ecosystems (Panel Discussion)

Olivia Duggan ’17, Crew - Engineering for Humanity: Helping Elders Age in Place through Partnerships for Healthy Living 

Anna Hakes ’17, Crew - From where and so what?: Geographic origin and genetic consequences of a species introduction to the Galapagos archipelago 

Jocelyn Wong ’18, Crew - The Graduate Center: Gropius and Bauhaus Ideology in the Crimson Context 

Alexandra Dunn ’15, Cross Country/Track & Field - From Birds to Nanoparticles: MR Studies at Wellesley (Panel Discussion)

Heather Smith ’16, Cross Country/Track & Field - Designing Ecosystems (Panel Discussion)

Cassandra Hoef ’15, Fencing - An In-Depth Look at the Benefits of Immersion Cues on Spatial 3D Problem Solving

Kathryn Ledbetter ’15, Fencing - A Coupled Schrodinger Equation Approach to Modeling Predissociation in Sulfur and Carbon Monoxides

Camille Samulski ’16, Fencing - Planet Hunting in the Milky Way

Jasmine Davis ’17, Fencing - An In-Depth Look at the Benefits of Immersion Cues on Spatial 3D Problem Solving

Pamela Wang ’17, Fencing - Is Love Translatable? Translation and Interpretation of Love Poems From Different Cultures (Panel Discussion) 

Hannah Brewster ’17, Field Hockey - Hear Me Moan: Speak-Out on Sexual Pleasure and Desire (Panel Discussion)

Lei Wei ’16, Golf - Investigating Structures and Functions of Histone-Derived Antimicrobial Peptides (Panel Discussion) 

Claire Cerda ’15, Soccer - Digital Ethnography, Wendy Wellesley, and #WellesleyCollegeProbz

Maria LaBouyer ’15, Softball - Investigating Structures and Functions of Histone-Derived Antimicrobial Peptides (Panel Discussion) 

Mariah Philips ’15, Softball - Transnational Feminism (Panel Discussion) 

Tiffany Chen ’15, Swimming & Diving - Voices in Literature and Medicine: In Medias Res (Panel Discussion)

Erin Yang ’16, Swimming & Diving - Hear Me Moan: Speak-Out on Sexual Pleasure and Desire (Panel Discussion)

Sarah May ’17, Swimming & Diving - Addition of Activated Carbon to Sand Filters to Remove Caffeine from Drinking Water 

Emily Moore ’18, Swimming & Diving - Studies, in Various Media, of the Human Skeleton (Exhibition)