Researchers of Emory

Maggie Kyle  is a [year] majoring in Psychology. She was awarded a Fall 2018 Conference Grant which she used to attend the Society f or Neuroscience Annual Meeting. Since the beginning of my sophomore year, I have spent much of my free time researching rhesus monkeys at the  Yerkes National Primate Research Center . Like many Emory undergraduates, I came to college planning on studying medicine. I wanted to study Neuroscience and follow the pre-medical track. But when I took an introductory NBB course my freshman year, Foundations of Behavior, I was surprised to find myself just as fascinated to learn about primate behavior and the origins of human evolution as I was to learn about the workings of the brain. I realized how fortunate I was to be at Emory, with  one of the seven national primate research centers on our campus, and I began reading about Yerkes scientists as I resolved to get involved with the plethora of research going on there. Soon after, I came u...

Jacob  Kasel  is a senior who is a double  major in  Comparative Literature and Spanish and Portuguese . He was awarded a Summer 2018 Independent Grant which he used to conduct research on Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector's depiction of time and images and the political implications of such perception of time and images  under Dr.  Elissa Marder. In my research, I aim to develop a mode of considering our perception of time and how images are key to our perception of it. To do so, I examine the work of two writers, Clarice Lispector and Marcel Proust, and one filmmaker, Andrei Tarkovsky. Doing so not only allows me to work with three languages I have studied (Portuguese, French and Russian), but also to consider how, across various cultures, artists have questioned our relation to time and to the images we use to define and conceive of it—that it is, to make time something conceivable and visible, to give it a body so to speak.   ...