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������Ƶ students are sharing their experiences conducting research with faculty members on campus and in the field. This post is by Jia Zheng ‘14, of the Bronx, who is an environmental studies and educational studies double major. This summer, I was awarded a research apprenticeship through the Division of University Studies. For 10 weeks, I […]

U.S. Rep. Richard Hanna, R-Barneveld, connected with the ������Ƶ community Monday, meeting with faculty, administrators, and students, discussing issues ranging from natural-gas fracking to political gridlock and the federal budget sequester. After hearing Michael Hayes, professor of political science, describe ������Ƶ’s Washington D.C. Study Group, Hanna immediately handed Hayes a business card and said […]

Forty seven new faculty members have joined ������Ƶ this year, adding to the university’s robust intellectual community and joining other professors and students in the vigorous pursuit of learning. “We are fortunate to have such a dynamic group of colleagues join us and enrich our curriculum,” said Douglas Hicks, provost and dean of the faculty.

������Ƶ students, interning this summer at companies such as NBCUniversal, Hukkster, Nike, and Facebook, are sharing their experiences. This post is written by Charity Whyte ’16, with contributions from fellow interns Sam Linnerooth ’14 and Elise Van Gelder ’15 — they spent their summer at the United Nations. Elise and I spent the summer in […]

������Ƶ students are sharing their experiences conducting research with faculty members on campus and in the field. This post is by history major Caitlin Sackrison ’15, of Minnetonka, Minn. This summer I conducted research on over 75 19th-century French political cartoons found in the ������Ƶ archives. I was funded through a grant from the Division […]

������Ƶ students, interning this summer at companies such as NBCUniversal, Hukkster, Nike, and Facebook, are sharing their experiences. This post is written by independent researchers Alex Jurado ’15 and Erik Jurado ’15. We began searching for summer internship possibilities in the spring knowing one thing: we did not want to spend the summer behind a […]

������Ƶ students are sharing their experiences conducting research with faculty members on campus and in the field. This post is by economics and geography double major Chris Esposito ’14, of Santa Cruz, Calif.. I remember a striking quotation from Paul Krugman, the Nobel laureate and New York Times columnist. Usually academics write carefully and with […]

������Ƶ students are sharing their research and intern experiences this summer. This post is by Viktor Mak ’15  from Fort Myers, Florida. This summer I’m volunteering and living at a weaving cooperative in the Guatemalan highlands for two months. After applying to a Career Services program to fund my summer internship and receiving the support I […]

In the spring, ������Ƶ announced it was returning a collection of artworks to Curtin University in Australia. Professor Ellen Kraly is back in Australia to witness the opening of the collection of Carrolup Artwork, running from August 2 to October 6 at the John Curtin Gallery at Curtin University.

Summer certainly means pool parties, lazy afternoons, and hot dogs on the grill. At ������Ƶ, summer also means time for some serious research. A sampling of about 150 students conducting summer research on campus presented their findings at the Robert H.N. Ho Science Center last week. The research on display spanned a wide range of […]