Class of 2014

On January 25, 2012, Lavontria Aaron, Class of 2014, received a Campus Scholarship of $5000 from the Connecticut Space Grant College Consortium.  She will be attending an awards reception in April.  As a recipient, she also will outreach to middle/high schools in the community about STEM careers and her pursuits in that area.  Congrats, Lavontria!

Oluwaremilekun (Remy) Ojurongbe had an internship doing research at the USDA-ARS in Beltsville, MD.  She worked in the Sustainable Agricultural Systems Lab conducting research on greenhouse gases emitted from crops and soil. She worked on the USDA farm, where she learned about organic farming, soil and plant science. It was a lot of messy work but [...]

Although Kayla Reiman plans to major in Religion at Wes, she also is a serious violinist, and spent her entire summer focused on improving her musical skill level. In addition to attending a week-long Suzuki Violin Teacher Training in Eugene, Oregon, and spending another week at a Folk Music camp in Washington, she was accepted [...]

Over the summer, Elizabeth Deatrick was the Workshops Intern at 826michigan.  826michigan is the Ann Arbor branch of a national writing and tutoring organization, founded by Dave Eggers, which provides tutoring and creative writing instruction to students ages 6 through 18.  Elizabeth spent her days working alongside awesome people and coaching children in the art [...]

Rowan Converse spent the summer working as a volunteer and then as an intern for the Bosque Ecosystem Monitoring Program (BEMP) in her hometown of Albuquerque, New Mexico. The program is an educational outreach and research cooperative between her high school and the University of New Mexico dedicated to tracking the health of the Rio [...]

This summer Shira Engel participated in teacher training because she has been practicing yoga for a few years.  She feels like it is a huge gift, and more specifically, a gift she wants to give to others in order to strengthen a valuable practice. The training was phenomenal. She expected to love it because she [...]

This summer, Amanda interned at a non-for-profit theatre called Abingdon Theatre Company (www.abingdontheatre.org) as a literary associate. She read scripts that were submitted for the upcoming season and evaluated whether they should move on or not.  She also assisted with their special events including their annual ABIE Awards and the annual Playwright’s Retreat.  She learned [...]

Ben interned for Progressives United, a Madison, Wisconsin-based charitable organization and political action committee founded by former U.S. Senator Russ Feingold. At Progressives United, Ben and the other interns wore several different hats, including lots of administrative work and data entry as well as working with the PAC’s finances.  However, the most interesting stuff he [...]

Gianya Breland worked for the Goddard School in Southern New Jersey, typically with children ages 3-5. Primarily working in the afternoon, her role was not as demanding or prominent as some of the other teachers. She started her shift as the children were waking up from their naps. Served them their afternoon snack, read stories, [...]

Gabrielle is a prospective music major from Brooklyn, NY, and an Argus staff writer.  This summer she was an editorial intern at AM New York and the Fader.  Aside from the usual intern busy work, she had the opportunity to write for both publications.   She also tutored high school students for their SATs.  As a [...]