Skidmore Scope Magazine Annual Edition for 2017

Students fanned out across the globe for a summer of hands-on learning with guidance from alumni, parents, and other employers in fields from banking to lab science to art. Some of Skidmore’s SEE-Beyond stipends went to: • Ann Hill ’18, a geosciences major, to conduct ice-field research in Alaska • business major Andrea Tehan ’18 to intern (and continue for 20 hours per week in the fall) in human resources at Gen- eral Electric in Schenectady, N.Y. • Ivy Asamoah ’19, an international affairs major, for interning with the International Rescue Committee in New York City • math major Robel Gete ’17 to teach math and coding at a school in Ethiopia • Doris Donelan ’19, in social work, to volunteer at a women’s center and orphanage in Nepal Hewitt Awards, given by Edwin Hewitt, husband of Betty Hartz Hewitt ’57, funded: • Kelly Cantwell, Morgan Akaylia, and Dante Tobar, all ris- ing seniors in physics, to intern at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab in California Skidmore’s Parents Fund 2019 supported, among others: • Joseph Pagliarulo ’19 to enrich his neuroscience major with genetics research at a veterans’ hospital in Massachusetts Skidmore’s Student Government Association provided responsible-citizenship intern awards, including to: • history major Isaac Selchaif ’18 to work with a Harlem charter school Skidmore’s general summer-internship funding went to such students as: • Langa Bakhuluma-Ncube ’18, a self-determined major in public health, to work with families through the Uganda Village Project • Anna Tsaligopoulou ’19, a psychology major, for research in child psychiatric epidemiology at Columbia University Skidmore’s Career Development Center also helped students find internships whose hosts paid the interns directly, such as: Jennifer Lupoff ’19, Dickfoong Leong ’18, Siyu Chen ’18, Sinhchhinh Lor ’18, Sam Cohen ’19, Finn Westergren ’18, and Ashley Mejia ’19, to help in communications and program- ming at the Soteryx data-analytics firm in Saratoga Springs In all, Skidmore funding allowed 112 students to engage in relevant, resume-building work rather than having to take just any paying job over the summer. And scores of others found or funded their own internships, workshops, and other productive summer experiences. S T U D E N T S U M M E R S Erin Covey OFFICEMATES Busy at Soteryx are (standing, from left:) Jenny Lupoff, Sinhchhinh Lor, Siyu Chen, Dickfoong Leong; (sitting, from left:) Finn Westergren, Ashley Mejia, Sam Cohen. SUMMER INTERNS SKIDMORE COLLEGE 5