Category: Psychology

February 1, 2022

Hartford on the Brain

This project started as a series of walking tours to engage students and community members in learning about the rich history of scientists and educators in and around Hartford.  My first inspiration was learning that Henry Molaison was from Hartford, his surgery was at Hartford Hospital, and he lived in a home on Congress Street. But as I kept digging...

Categories Neuroscience/Psychology

May 4, 2020

Parenting Podcast- Let’s Talk About Sex

This podcast was created as an assignment for our Child Development course to provide advice to parents covering a topic we had discussed in class. We chose to focus our advice on how to talk to young children about sex and sexuailty. It was a semester long project that included many stages of research, editing, recording, and just when you...

Categories Educational Studies/Psychology/Women, Gender, and Sexuality

April 9, 2019

Smooch Graphic Design

This project is an accumulation of my graphic design and illustration created in my life so far. These images consist of promotional materials such as posters and logos as well drawings. This project started by creating images and designs for organizations on campus which led me to my love for graphic design and brand creation. Logos and promotional materials must...

Categories Art/Educational Studies/Psychology

April 9, 2019

Parenting Podcast – Gender Stereotypes

The project is a podcast about children’s gender development. We were inspired by our course, Child Development and the readings we had done for class. It was an iterative process to build. We had to narrow our research question down, and have subtopics that we wanted to talk about. Then, we did a lot of research. Next, we made a...

Categories Psychology

April 8, 2019

Listening between your ears

For years I’ve been working on visualization and sonification as a means to make patterns in complex data conspicuous to eyes and ears.  My target has been that object of maximum complexity, the human brain.  The evolution of this practice has crept along several dimensions:  Ever improving quality, diversity, and availability of brain data (currently datasets run about 5 terabytes); ...

Categories Music/Neuroscience/Psychology/Unaffiliated

April 4, 2019

Parenting Podcast – Down Syndrome

This project came about after choosing a topic of interest for the Child Development course. I chose the topic of developmental disabilities since it is one I am quite interested in and wanted to learn more about. My group and I narrowed down this topic to create a question parents might have about how to give their child with Down...

Categories Psychology

April 4, 2019

Parenting Podcast – Technology and Young Children

The main goal of the project was to create a short podcast that could be used as a tool for new parents, specifically those at the daycare center here at Trinity. Each podcast created by a different group was focused on a different topic, ours was digital technology. We highlighted the benefits and and drawbacks of introducing technology to a child at...

Categories Psychology

April 4, 2019

Stress at Trinity

This project is part of a public service announcement project for the Developmental Psychopathology Course. The PSA is about college stress and the resources available for students at Trinity to help cope with these stressors. We were inspired to do our project on this topic because as seniors at Trinity we have both experienced stress over the past four years here....

Categories Psychology