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.” […]
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 […]
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 […]
Personal growth through helping others
Shyniece Ferguson ’14, a first generation college student from St. Louis, MO is majoring in Communication Studies and minoring in WGSS & Africana Studies. Soon after arriving at Wooster, Shyniece began taking advantage of the College’s advising and experiential learning resources. She thought about applying for a Lilly Fellowship the summers between her first and […]
Collaboration brings a new perspective to Career Planning
During the fall 2012 semester Marylou Lalonde, Assistant Director of Career Services, met with Leslie, a sophomore who was already thinking about life after Wooster. She was considering the 3/2 program at Mandel School of Social Sciences at Case. They discussed a career in social work and what Leslie knew about it. They also talked about the 3/2 program and whether […]
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 […]
David combines Entrepreneurship and AMRE
David Brew ’14, a student with no previous connection to the Entrepreneurship Office, was invited to attend an informal discussion hosted by the E-Club with visiting speaker, Howard Putnam. This session was held in the afternoon in APEX. After that meeting, David became interested in entrepreneurship and began to attend some E-Club meetings. His interest […]