Beyond the Classroom
Published on: 08/16/11
A Haverford student's education doesn't end with the academic year. This summer, as in years past, the three campus Centers—the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship, the John B. Hurford '60 Humanities Center and the Marian E. Koshland Integrated Science Center—sponsored summer work, research and internships for almost 200 students. Whether they interned at a day clinic in South Africa; conducted research in a lab at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts; or worked for the Philadelphia Fringe festival a mere 10 miles from campus, students broadened their horizons and learned valuable new skills that will inform their classroom work when they return to campus in the fall.
Below is a list—by no means an exhaustive one—of articles that feature our students' diverse summer work. Many students maintained blogs about their experiences, which are listed below.
ARTICLES:
- Miriam Fuchs '13 conducts research on binary stars at Boston University
- Angelique Bradford '13 and Leora Winston '14 are teaching sustainability and healthy practices with Weavers Way Community Programs in Philadelphia
- Andrew Sturner '12 is participating in solar flare research at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
- Gemma Donofrio '12 designed her own internship at Children's HealthWatch Boston
- Gabrielle Martinez '13 for the Philadelphia Futures' Sponsor-A-Scholar (SAS) and Drexel Futures Digital Storytelling programs
- Rachel Lim '12 studied the 1777 Battle of Germantown at her internship at Cliveden, a historic home
- Kate Irick '13 advocated for immigrants rights at the Legal Aid Justice Center in Falls Church, Va.
- Hannah Turner '13 worked with children with disabilities at Israel Elywn in Israel
- Hannah Solomon-Straus '12 studied the political dynamics of oil production in the Caucasus region at the Foreign Policy Research Institute
- Matt Cebul '13 studied the current events of the recent Arab Spring and its impact on Middle Eastern politics at the Foreign Policy Research Institute
- Hannah Miller '13 spent her internship teaching at a school and orphanage in Guatemala
- Elizabeth Levitan '11 interned in Peru at the Sacred Valley Project, which works to provide rural indigeous girls with education and leadership opportunities
- Kattie Wettick '11 studied urban design and conducted research on sustainable architecture at HafenCity University in Hamberg, Germany
- Becca DeHority '12 interned at a clinic in the township of Guguletu outside of Cape Town, South Africa
- Martin Richard '14 studied the ocean environment of the Cambian era at the Johnston Group Lab at Harvard
- Olivia Coburn-Flynn '13 and Nicole Lantz '12 shadowed doctors at the Holy Family Hospital in Koderma, India
- Sam Gant '13 worked for the Foundation for Sustainable Development, which placed him at the AIDS Support Organization in Jinja, Uganda
- Liz Crooks '12 interned with the Library Company of Philadelphia sorting through a recently acquired collection of 19th century woodblocks
- Rosalie Hooper '12 conducted research in historical archives in Philadelphia on the role of race, gender and sex in the destruction of Pennsylvania Hall, an abolitionist meeting place
- Katie Monroe '12 interned at the Pennsylvania Humanities Council in Philadelphia
- Jacob Horn '13 and Jenny Sanford '13 both interned at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
- Elinor Hickey '12 interned at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the Mutter Museum
- Michael Franklin '12 interned with the Mapping Du Bois Project at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design
- Lulu Krause '12 served as an information management intern for the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe
BLOGS:
- Joe Carpenter '11 is interning for the Monogamous Primate Project in Edacor and Argentina through the fall
- Liz Cohen-Scheer '12 blogs about her work stuyding William Wordsworth at the British Library
- Robin Riskin '12 blogs her work with local artists in Accra, Ghana
- Lizzie Douglas '13 blogs her internship at Philadelphia's Women's Law Project
- Peony Yu BMC '13 blogs her Amity Foundation internship in China
- Waleed Shahid '13 blogs his Arabic studies and Middle Eastern travels at the University of Jordan in Amman
- Maya Barlev '12 blogs her internship with UNAWA (Universe Awareness) in Leiden, The Netherlands
- Madeline Smith-Gibbs '13 and Jen Zelnick '12 blog the Indonesia Research Program
- Anna Provitola '11 blogs her internships with Les Humanoïdes Associés in Paris, France
- Abigail Novick '12 blogs her research at the Vision Sciences Laboratory at Harvard
- Zach Smith '13 blogs his research at the Human Performance Laboratory at Uniformed Services University
- Kyle McClockey '11 and Karina Puttieva '11 blog their time at L.A.'s Center for the Study of Political Graphics
- Hannah Zieve '14 blogs her internship with KIPP Schools Philadelphia
- Claire Perry '14 blogs her Michigan Land Use Institute internship
- Seth Kennedy '12 blogs his internship with Toronto's Unite HERE!
- Anna Menon '12 blogs her work maintaining the student garden at HCA
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