Berkeley, California, native and Gallatin junior Paolina Lu is studying sociology, physical anthropology, legal studies, race theory and dance history and practice to examine the relationship between ideas about the human body, public policy and the formation of group and individual identity. She is vice president of the Gallatin Dancers/Choreographers Alliance. Last year, Lu, whose concentration is “The Body: Evolution and Policy,” did an independent study called “How the Body Works” with Professor Leslie Satin, her adviser. She also studied at NYU’s site in Accra, Ghana. “I like how simultaneously big and small Gallatin is,” she says. “Gallatin fosters community and close student-professor relationships, but at the same time, Gallatin students have access to all of the opportunities that a big university has to offer.”
