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 […]
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 […]
Visit to Washington D.C. Summer Interns
APEX was in Washington D.C. over July 11-12 visiting student interns and alumni! The central event was the alumni and intern gathering at Wiley Rein law office on K Street (thanks to Doug Wiley ’85!). 17 people present, including Ryan Ozar from APEX and Heidi McCormick, Director of Alumni Relations. The seven students at the gathering t […]
Bailey Explores Entrepreneurship
Bailey Connor ’15 joined the E-Club at the beginning of the 2012-13 school year. At the same time she came to Peter Abramo, the Director of Entrepreneurship, and said she was trying to figure out what her major should be. She had been discussing possibilities with her advisor and with other APEX staff members. She […]
Inspired to Succeed
Lauren Close ’12 majored in both History & Art History. There are many things that set Wooster apart from other undergraduate institutions, including small class sizes, student research opportunities and emphasis on independent thought. However, I believe that Wooster’s greatest educational asset is the faculty and the supportive intellectual culture they generate. At the beginning […]
A Passion for Justice
Eric Petry ’14 is an Economic major / Political Science minor from Worthington, OH. He has moved from examining Experiential Learning at Wooster to participating in it. Last summer, as a member of an AMRE team that defined guidelines for the College’s EL programs, Eric conducted interviews with and analyzed surveys from program directors. This […]
Ye gets hands-on experiences
Ye Xiaomeng ’15 is a sophomore computer science and mathematics student from China. In the summer of 2012, he took an internship with a local internet application and program designer through the Center for Entrepreneurship. He stopped into APEX in the fall of 2012 to learn if/how he could return to the same company to work on new programming projects. We helped him […]