THIS IS THE WAY, WALK IN IT BY CYNDI LAMB '74
IN THE SUMMER OF 2019, Madison Palmer '20 arrived in Costa Rica with a contingent of SNU students and their professor Dr. Anna Harper. Unlike most students who visit SNU’s Quetzal Research Center, they were not there to study ecology or sustainability, rather, they were there to study love. Their mission was to add a cross-cultural component to the research they had been conducting in the US on what compassionate love looks like. As the students met with the volunteers to start interviews and hand out surveys, Madison found herself captivated as she watched Dr. Harper engaging with total strangers in a new country. Even though they had come to study the views of this culture, she found herself studying her professor.
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SNU MAGAZINE | SUMMER 2022
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