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Comparative literature major, Spanish minor, and peace, justice and human rights concentrator Lena Yeakey ’19 is a Center for Peace and Global Citizenship-sponsored intern at Justice at Work, a legal group that provides free legal aid to low-wage immigrant workers.
"Summer Centered" is a series exploring our students' Center-funded summer work. Photo: Alexandra Iglesia '21
Sponsored by the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship, anthropology major Grace Brosnan '20 is engaging in direct action and local activism to fight for a living wage for all workers in the Twin Cities.
"Summer Centered" is a series exploring our students' Center-funded summer work. Photo courtesy of Grace Brosnan '20.
Tina Le '19, an English major and health studies minor, is researching the Spanish flu of 1918 and its impact on Philadelphia at the Mütter Museum.
"Summer Centered" is a series exploring our students' Center-funded summer work. Photo by Alexandra Iglesia '21.
Emma Bullock '19, a chemistry major, is working with Associate Professor of Chemistry and Environmental Studies Helen White to investigate colony collapse disorder in honeybee hives.
"Summer Centered" is a series exploring our students' Center-funded summer work. Photo by Alexandra Iglesia '21.
Bilge Yilmaz '21, a prospective political science major and music and visual studies double minor, is working for La Blogothèque, a French broadcast and production company.
"I experience a very unique working environment where everyone is immensely passionate about what they do—they communicate and brainstorm so intricately and so naturally that I can now understand how the magic happens,” Yilmaz said. “I hope to learn from these work ethics and collaboration skills."
Yilmaz's internship is supported by the Smart Family Fund and the Center for Career and Professional Advising. "Summer Centered" is a series exploring our students' Center-funded summer work.
Michael Weber '19, a religion major with a concentration in peace, justice, and human rights, is 'queering' ideas of religious possibilities at Metropolitan Community Church in New York City this summer.
"Summer Centered" is a series exploring our students' Center-funded summer work. Photo by Alexandra Iglesia '21.
Claire Burdick ’19, a psychology major concentrating in peace, justice, and human rights, is interning at the St. Louis Zoo this summer.
"This internship will help me achieve my future goals because it is giving me a taste of what doing animal behavior research for a job is really like,” Burdick says, “and is going to help me build the foundation of skills I'll need if I end up working in the animal-behavior field.”
Burdick will intern at the St. Louis Zoo thanks to the Center for Career and Professional Advising’s Liberal Arts in the Workplace grants. "Summer Centered" is a series exploring our students' Center-funded summer work.
Astrophysics major Nick Sweeney ’19 is using mathematical models to replicate the ways galaxies clumped together in the early universe—and, hopefully, to learn more about the nature of dark matter as a result.
Sweeney will work alongside Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy Daniel Grin and use novel dark matter models to describe the structure of the early universe thanks to funding from the Koshland Integrated Natural Sciences Center. "Summer Centered" is a series exploring our students' Center-funded summer work. Photo by Alexandra Iglesia '21.
A native of Germany, physics major Gerrit Farren '20 will return to Europe this summer to conduct theoretical physics research that will be used to construct a model of the Big Bang.
Thanks to funding from the Koshland Natural Sciences Center, Farren will study in Professor of Astrophysics and Cosmology Andrew H. Jaffe’s Imperial College, London-based lab. "Summer Centered" is a series exploring our students' Center-funded summer work.
Growth and structure of cities major Colin Fredrickson '20 is using public art and storytelling to answer questions about confronting the past and building for the future.
Frederickson's Center for Peace and Global Citizenship sponsored internship brought him to New Orleans alongside classmate Isabella Siegel '19. "Summer Centered" is a series exploring our students' Center-funded summer work.
*We have a very tiny magic 8 ball.