Slideshow: 2014 Mount David Summit’s happy, if trippy, scene
It’s quite the scene.
Standing proudly beside their posters, animated and articulate students explain their research to visitors.
In turn, these cheerfully befuddled visitors work earnestly to grasp student insights into chemotaxis, mortality salience or the Arab Spring in Tunisia. Somehow, it always works, and the scene at Mount David Summit is always happy, if trippy.
Visitors come from near and far, and a least one watched from far, far away this year.
Right before Andrew Carranco ’14 discussed his research on Japanese-Peruvian internment in Texas during World War II, he walked over to his computer and tilted the screen toward the lectern.
“My Mom is Skpying with me,” he told the audience in the Pettengill classroom, which prompted a collective “Awwww…” from all of us.
Photographs by Sarah Crosby and Phyllis Graber Jensen.
On the Schaeffer Theatre stage, Katie Ailes '14 performs "Homing," a work she choreographed for her senior thesis in dance. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College)
Bisola Folarin '14 presents on sexual orientation policies and perspectives in Uganda and South Africa. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College)
Professor Emeritus of Psychology John Kelsey hugs friend and colleague Kathy Low, professor of psychology and associate dean of faculty. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College)
Jeff Sturgis '69, left, listens as Destany Franklin '14 discusses her neuroscience research during the 2014 Mount David Summit. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College)
Visitors enjoy the annual Barlow Off-Campus Study Photography Exhibition. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College)
