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This summer, the Visual Studies program has awarded four independent research projects and one on-campus internship to Visual Studies majors. 

Visual Studies program director and Professor of Philosophy, Gary Hatfield, will deliver one of the keynote addresses at the inaugural symposium of the new Institute for Visual Intelligence, “Philosophical Understanding of Visual Intelligence.

The symposium takes place Saturday November 19th from 10-5pm. 

Visual Studies seniors Alyssa Marcus (left) and Carolina English (right) have won College Alumni Society Research Grants from the Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships.

Ian Verstegen, Associate Director of Visual Studies, will deliver the 2015 Baronius Lecture before the Pontifical Congregation of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri, at the Oratory Church of St. Boniface, Brooklyn, New York, Thursday November 12th, at 6pm. 

Kevin Connolly has won a $75,000 grant from the Cambridge New Directions in the Study of the Mind Project, for a project called “The Interdisciplinary Study of Perceptual Learning.” Connolly’s project will bring together philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists at international workshops to discuss perceptual learning—cases where people (often experts) perceive the world in an improved way due to learning. Connolly will act as the Principal Investigator for the grant, with Adrienne Prettyman (Bryn Mawr College) acting as a Co-Investigator.

Carolina English, Visual Studies senior ('16), reflects on her path in the major and work with Fine Arts professor Orkan Tellhan in a Visual Studies sponsored summer project.