Daniel Cohen ’14 (a political science and communications major from Beavercreek, Ohio) knew before last summer that he wanted to work to reform campaign finance laws. When he found an internship with an organization called Public Citizen, which is working toward a constitutional amendment to limit corporate campaign donations, he jumped at the opportunity to […]
Christina Haupt ’14 organizes TEDx events with the help of Entrepreneurship
Christina Haupt ’14 (a philosophy and studio art major from Rüschlikon, Zurich Switzerland) first came to APEX in a moment of desperation. She had been working to plan a TEDx event (an independently organized version of a TED conference, usually focused on a specific theme) on Wooster’s campus, but was struggling to find support for […]
Jonathan Allotey ’15 creates a marketplace for Wooster students
Jonathan Allotey ’15 (a biochemistry and molecular biology major from Accra, Ghana) recently decided to start exploring entrepreneurship. He started with an idea: he wanted to build a marketplace for College of Wooster students to buy and sell items, such as books and furniture, from each other. Jonathan hoped that this idea would help […]
Sunny Mitra ’16 explores microfinance at Grameen Bank
Sunny Mitra ’16 (an economics and mathematics double major with a minor in political science from Kolkata, India) spent last summer working on microfinance in Bangladesh. His two-part internship, funded in part by an APEX Fellowship, was with the Grameen Bank and the Grameen Trust, two sister companies. During the first part of his internship, […]
Brittany Cook ’15 lives and works with high-achieving students
Brittany Cook ’15 spent the summer of 2013 working with high-achieving, low-income high school students at Higher Achievement Summer School in Alabama. HASS, founded in 2011 by Wooster alumni Justin Younker ‘10, helps its students become first generation college students through preparatory classes. Brittany taught an SAT/ACT vocabulary class and a novel study class to a […]
Fahim Aziz ’15 gets a jumpstart from Entrepreneurship
(Photo from Fahim’s internship with Grameen Bank, which was funded by the Center for Entrepreneurship) Fahim Aziz ’15 (an economics and mathematics major from Dhaka, Bangladesh) first started working with APEX before it was even called APEX. In 2011, Fahim worked with the Center for Entrepreneurship to get help with an internship with Grameen […]
Ellen Baird ’14 experiences sustainable agriculture
Ever since she took Professor Mariola’s Sustainable Agriculture class her freshman year, Ellen Baird ’14 (an anthropology major and environmental studies minor from Steubenville, Ohio) has wanted to find a way to work on a farm. Last summer she achieved that goal, interning at North Carolina State’s Center for Environmental Farming Systems with […]
Annie Partika ’15 brings stories to life for Cleveland kids
Annie Partika ’15 (a psychology major and education minor from Youngstown, Ohio) worked for a program called Literary Lots during the summer of 2013. She describes the mission of her internship as “turning an underutilized lot in Cleveland into a children’s storybook come to life as a site for educational programming and community events.” […]
Exploring Passions leads to Career Path
Sureni Beckford ’12 Turpentine Wildlife Refuge Eureka Springs, AR Major at Wooster: Biochemistry Molecular Biology To say that my Wooster education has prepared me for my future career would be a great understatement. My time at the College of Wooster gave me the opportunity to develop in many ways, particularly as an independent thinker. […]
Blogs by APEX Fellows
Take a few minutes and read some of the blogs created by the APEX Fellows this summer! Nileema Khan’s (2013) blog, “On the Fields: Channel i Internship” represents her experience as an APEX Fellow of the College of Wooster at Channel i, Bangladesh. Brittany Cook (2015) recently completed her APEX Fellowship in Birmingham, Alabama. She […]
A new program brings exciting opportunities
Rebecca N. Lang ’12 a neuroscience major currently enrolled in a graduate program at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH. To me, a liberal arts education is about being passionate. When I started college, I had no idea what I wanted to study, but I knew that I was passionate about chemistry, biology, and psychology. Luckily […]
Rita Frost ’14 builds a web of connections in Washington, D.C.
Rita Frost ’14 (Political Science major/ Environmental Studies & Economics minor) has grabbed her APEX Fellowship by the horns and run with it. Based in Washington, D.C., she’s essentially completing two unpaid internships, one for a brand new coalition called DC Divest, which is working on a campaign to ask the District of Columbia government to […]