Denene Wambach is a recent graduate of Temple University’s Psychology and Political Science undergraduate departments.  She currently holds research assistantships in the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, the department of Neurology, and in Temple University’s Cognitive Neuropsychology laboratory.  Denene’s investigations within psychological science include the relationship between problem solving ability and creativity and also the ways in which neuropathology affects language retrieval, object knowledge, memory, as well as the ability to solve everyday problems.  Her work in psychology led Denene to become interested in observing the relationship that exists between social science and politics.  At the Institute, Denene seeks to draw humanistic connections between cognitive psychology, scientific methodology, scientific interpretation, existential philosophy, phenomenology, legalistic ethics, and the contemporary dynamics of race and politics.  She hopes that such connections will examine how holistic approaches to thinking affect both the socio-political experience of education and the legal conceptualizations of individual civil liberty.