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.” […]
Personal growth through helping others
July 23, 2013 by
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
July 20, 2013 by
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 […]
Succeeding in the classroom and out
July 17, 2013 by
Sam is a senior economics major from western Michigan. Sam has been a regular in the Learning Center since his first year, benefiting greatly from the academic support provided as he engaged in a pace which demanded much from his courses and himself. Sam is a strong student with a high G.P.A., but there were areas of interest which he did not […]
A place to help you answer “What’s next?”
July 16, 2013 by
Toward the end of April, this year, Pam Rose (Director of the Learning Center) served as an interviewer in selecting the team of “Archers.” These are students carefully chosen to participate on the student, staff, faculty teams who assist First Year students in the ARCH orientation programs in June and August. Archers must be familiar […]
Ye gets hands-on experiences
July 16, 2013 by
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 […]