Amanda Oross '22 participated in the 2020 Richard Macksey National Undergraduate Humanities Research Symposium hosted by Johns Hopkins Kreiger School of Arts & Sciences in April. The symposium is invitation only and provides students from across the humanities with an opportunity to share their research. Oross, who is an art history major with a minor in environmental studies, presented research on two bronze jues (one is a replication) or ritual libation cups from Gettysburg College's Musselman Library Special Collections. The original bronze jue hails from the Late Shang to the early Western Zhou period of the Chinese Bronze Age, a time in which jues were used as ritual wine-drinking vessels.

As part of the Kolbe Fellows Program last summer, Merlyn Maldonado Lopez '22 curated the art exhibition, "Martin Puryear: 40 Years Since Sentinel." The exhibit, which was on display at the Gettysburg College Schmucker Art Gallery earlier this semester, celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Sentinel sculpture on campus. It featured a working mold Puryear constructed in preparation for Sentinel, photographs of the 1982 installation, and prints by Puryear that were recently acquired by the College and loaned from a private collection. Read Maldonado Lopez's first-person reflection about the research she conducted during the curation process.

With the help of a grant from the Adams County Bar Foundation, Gettysburg's Public Policy Program is distributing a new victims' rights and criminal justice newsletter to local attorneys, to help keep them in the know of evolving law. In the fall, Haley Shultz '21, who double majors in political science and public policy, was chosen from among a competitive pool of interested students to serve as the Victim's Rights and Criminal Justice Newsletter's editor. This transformative experience is not only improving her skills and shaping her passions, but also contributing to the advancement of public policy in Adams County. Read the full story.

At Gettysburg College, creative thinking is more than a skill taught in the classroom. It's cultivated in everyday life and evident in the various hands-on learning opportunities available to students, such as student-faculty research. This summer, as the College and the world, navigated the COVID-19 pandemic, 35 students and 15 faculty members, with the support of the wider College community, creatively collaborated to conduct Cross-Disciplinary Science Institute (X-SIG)-sponsored research, remotely. Our faculty were innovative in their approaches, as they not only pivoted their projects from an in-person experience to a fully remote one, but they did so in a way that was dynamic and engaging for students. Read the full story.