I’m a first year undergraduate student, majoring in Environmental Science at the Corvallis campus of Oregon State University! I want to use the Arts to communicate scientific fact. Writing, painting, and design are passions of mine. I wanted to join this research opportunity through OSU’s Undergraduate Research, Scholarship and the Arts (URSA) with Victor because I believe that how we interact and view art as children impacts our values and beings for the rest of our lives. I hope that throughout this program I am able to gain new perspectives about the influence that creative spaces have on children as they grow into adults. By the end of this first week I’ll hopefully have a clear and narrow research question nailed down!