(Navee, center, helps out with Senior I.S. preparations in the Registrar’s office) Navee Chandran ’15 (a biochemistry major from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) is a student employee in the registrar’s office. In her time working there, she has come to understand that the registrar’s office is helpful to students in many “behind-the-scenes” ways. Navee explains that […]
Maddy Swoy ’15 pursues environmental and poverty solutions
April 14, 2014 by
Maddy Swoy ’15 (a political science major from San Diego, California) spent last summer working for Plant with Purpose. The organization works with rural farmers in 6 developing countries to reconcile poverty issues with sustainable farming practices. Maddy’s internship took place in San Diego, where she worked in marketing and outreach for Plant with Purpose. […]
Aidan Conley ’16 applies Entrepreneurship skills to a summer internship
April 4, 2014 by
(Aidan Conley, right, helped organize Launch’s student entrepreneurship competition) Aidan Conley ’16 (a business economics major from Fairway, Kansas) first got involved in entrepreneurship when he heard APEX’s Director for Entrepreneurship Peter Abramo give a presentation at a meeting of the investment club. Since then, Aidan has gone on to become the treasurer of Launch, Wooster’s student […]
Eric Petry ’14 promotes civil liberties
March 28, 2014 by
Eric Petry ’14 (an economics major and political science minor from Worthington, Ohio) spent last summer working for the San Francisco chapter of the National Lawyer’s Guild (NLG) with the help of APEX funding. The NLG, an organization that promotes civil liberties and helps individuals connect with legal resources, was a perfect place for Eric […]
Andreja Siliunas ’14 researches social welfare issues
March 28, 2014 by
Andreja Siliunas ’14 (a sociology major and math minor from Riverside, Illinois) has interned with Wayne County Children Services for three years. But last summer, as part of the College’s Applied Mathematical Research Experience (AMRE), she began to see the organization in a whole new light. AMRE, an experiential learning program run by Professor John […]
Daniel Cohen ’14 works toward campaign finance reform
March 28, 2014 by
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 […]
Jonathan Allotey ’15 creates a marketplace for Wooster students
March 3, 2014 by
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
March 3, 2014 by
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
February 28, 2014 by
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
February 28, 2014 by
(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
February 21, 2014 by
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
February 21, 2014 by
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.” […]