PEOPLE: Special Graduate Research Projects by Groton Residents

Meena Khayami of WPI works on irrigation project in Santa Fe; Stacy Stewart reports on parenting parenting at Assumption College's fifth annual graduate symposium.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI)

Meena Khayami of Groton, a senior majoring in mechanical engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), recently completed an intense, hands-on research project in Santa Fe. The project was titled Efficient Irrigation in the Santa Ana Pueblo.

Assumption College

Groton resident Stacy Stewart presented her project "Do Young Adults' Views of Family-of-Origin Co-parenting Predict their Future Parenting Confidence and Co-parenting Outlooks?" at Assumption College's fifth annual graduate symposium. Stewart and partner Juliana Eels investigated whether family-of-origin experiences with co-parenting impact young adults' expectations of their future co-parenting relationships.