Entries for May 2011

Donald Maldari, S.J. (back row right) with some of the students who traveled to Dominica earlier this year.

This May, 16 students from Le Moyne’s Leadership, Education, Action and Decision (LEAD) learning community traveled to the Commonwealth of Dominica, volunteering and absorbing the culture of the Caribbean island nation of 69,000 people. 

Of the many extraordinary opportunities students have at Le Moyne, one of the most significant is the potential for collaborative research with faculty. In these projects, undergraduate students share ideas and background reading with individual faculty members. Students conduct literature searches, formulate hypotheses, and design experiments. They administer research, make evidence-based inferences, and analyze results. Psychology Honors student Christina Nicolais illustrates the fruits of these remarkable collaborations.