Medfield Native Gabrielle Jaques Named Stonehill SURE Scholar

2014 Apr 3

Medfield native Gabrielle Jaques, a member of the 2016 at Stonehill College in Easton, Mass., will be one of 50 students at the College who will be conducting research with Stonehill faculty this summer through the Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) Program.

Jaques will be working with Professor of Communication Ron Leone on a project titled "Scorsese's Score: Use of Music in Life Lessons."

Jaques, an English major, will begin with an overview discussion of Martin Scorsese’s use of music in his work and will conclude with a focus on one of his overlooked and underappreciated films, Life Lessons. The ultimate goal for the project is to produce a chapter-length writing to be presented at a conference and then submitted for publication in a scholarly journal.

The scholars and their faculty mentors are the 19th group to work under the SURE Program, which provides students with an opportunity to perform significant, publishable research under the guidance of an experienced faculty researcher.

The research experience will help to provide Stonehill students with a competitive advantage in graduate and professional school applications and in post-college employment opportunities, as well as to provide assistance to faculty in research activities.

Stonehill is a selective Catholic college located on a beautiful 384-acre campus in Easton, Massachusetts. With a student-faculty ratio of 13:1, the College engages over 2,500 students in 80+ rigorous academic programs in the liberal arts, sciences, and pre-professional fields. The Stonehill community helps students to develop the knowledge, skills, and character to meet their professional goals and to live lives of purpose and integrity.