About the Scholar: Pioneer Scholar Liyang is from Hangzhou, China, where she attended Hangzhou No. 14 High School The Research: Borderline personality disorder is a mental illness affecting 1–2% of the population, characterized by mood swings, difficulty controlling anger, and feelings of emptiness. Liyang designed an experiment examining the correlation between BPD patients’ difficulty in […]
About the Scholar: Pioneer Scholar Qianyi is from Beijing, China, where she attended Beijing No. 4 High School International Campus The Research: Most of us have seen at least one movie that falls under the category of “film noir” – dark, gritty crime dramas featuring bitter detectives, femmes fatales, and urban underworlds. In order to […]
About the Scholar: Pioneer Scholar Gabrielle is from Oakland, California, where she attended The College Preparatory School. The Research: Gabrielle completed a field study examining the treatment of Black and white teenagers at a department store in a predominantly white neighborhood of California. Observing eye contact, body distance, posture, and tone, Gabrielle analyzed the nonverbal […]
About the Scholar: Yao Lin grew up in China and attends Culver Academies. The Research: Yoko Ono is perhaps most famous for her marriage to John Lennon and her oft-speculated role in The Beatles’ break-up in 1970. But Ono was also a significant figure in postwar American art: a co-founder of the Fluxus movement, Ono […]
