A Living Laboratory
Faculty members from a range of disciplines regularly engage students in hands-on study using the Wellesley campus. Here are just a few examples.
- Associate Professor of Biological Sciences Vanja Klepac-Ceraj and her students studied the microbes of Paintshop Pond and Lake Waban, surveying for arsenic-metabolizing genes across the watershed.
- Associate Professor of Environmental Studies Alden Griffith, whose lab serves as a center for environmental analysis on campus, is collating data from student observations of campus bird life to analyze in class.
- Barbara Lynn-Davis, lecturer in art, and students in her course WRIT 149: From Pompeii to Paramecium Pond: A History of Gardens and Landscape Art, collaborated with Lara Prebble ’19 to design and plant a pollinator garden on the slope to Munger Meadow.
- Associate Professor of Philosophy Erich Hatala Matthes’ students reflected on readings from Indigenous traditions and then walked by the lake with Paulson-Frost Practitioner Fellow Waban Webquish, who is Mashpee Wampanoag, to explore related themes in Wellesley’s landscape.
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