A recent article on the St. Olaf website covered the Responses to Thunberg CURI project, along with two other humanities projects directed by my colleagues Tim Rainey and Bridget Draxler. Since many students associate research with the natural and social sciences, it’s great to see these efforts to promote undergraduate research in the humanities. Directing an interdisciplinary project that drew on research in environmental studies, communication, media studies,  gender, and childhood/youth studies, was a learning experience for me because the project attracted students with a wide range of interests I didn’t anticipate. Two of the students on the team were psychology majors, along with gender and sexuality studies, and one had a major in kinesiology, along with a self-designed concentration in inclusive performance studies. Their different perspectives took the research in exciting directions. The project is meant to be comparative across language areas, something that hasn’t been easy to accomplish in these early iterations, so I’m looking forward to directing a future CURI project that focuses on comparing responses to Thunberg from multiple language areas.