STUDENT SUCCESS SPOTLIGHT: CHRYSTAL A. CORNWELL

By: Staff Writer, Egor Usatov What happens to a community’s history when the places holding it disappear beneath the water? This summer, Berea College student Chrystal A. Cornwell helped explore that question through a URCPP research project examining how rising sea levels could affect coastal cemeteries. The project began with a deceptively simple question: What is a cemetery? During the first two to three weeks, the team read, researched, and visited cemeteries to understand their environmental, social, and economic roles. They considered what communities could lose if these places no longer existed. One visit took the team to Lexington Cemetery,…