Nexus Scholars study climate change inequality and infant language learning - Cornell Chronicle
Nexus Scholars study climate change inequality and infant language learning | Cornell Chronicle
Students David Behdad ’25, left, and Sneah Singhi ’26, right, work in the observation room at the B.A.B.Y Lab, which studies infant language acquisition.
Nexus Scholars study climate change inequality and infant language learning
By Kathy Hovis
This summer, Noelani Hsia ’26 is conducting research on something she’s witnessed firsthand growing up in California —climate inequality. Another pair of social science students, David Behdad ’25 and Sneah Singhi ’26, are studying infant language acquisition, working with parents and their babies.
All three students are in the College of Arts & Sciences’ Nexus Scholars Program, which provides undergraduate students with summer opportunities to conduct research with and be mentored by faculty from across the college.
“There are two highways through Oakland, 13 and 880,” Hsia said. “880 goes through communities of color and areas of low income people, while 13 runs through rich Oakland Hills areas. They make all of the large diesel trucks go on 880 not on 13, so it creates all of this pollution. It’s so crazy to see the difference.”
Read the full story on The College of Arts & Sciences website.
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