| International Education is a field that seeks to encourage cross-cultural exchanges and interactions. This panel will examine the different ways that individual panelists learned to facilitate cultural exchanges in Italy, China, Belgium and Vietnam. One component of these exchanges is the variety of environments they occur in, such as study abroad programs, small education consulting companies, high school guidance counseling and large international education firms. Another large component of these programs is not only facilitating cultural exchange, but also promoting higher education in America, whether it be by running down the streets of Brussels in heels to organize a huge diplomatic dinner party, or strolling up the streets of Beijing in deep intellectual conversation with a Chinese student on Jamaican food. Join the panel for information about internships in the field of international education and discussion on how the panelists have built bridges beyond countries they worked in. |
| Aayushi Mishra |
Around the World in Eighty Ways: A brighter international education experience |
| An Nguyen |
Educational Counseling: Helping Students to Navigate in the World |
| Kelly Landaverde |
Enhancing the Summer Study Abroad Experience: Learning through Cultural Exchanges in the Eternal City. |
| Carihanna Morrison |
Intellectual Walks on Xiaoyun Lu: Preparing Chinese High School Students for America and American Colleges |
| Clapp 203 |
Data in Real Life |
| How do we define “data”? Although we interact with this seemingly abstract thing everyday, we only hear the term used extensively by scientists, economists and analysts. Instead, think emails, search engines, sales, cellphones, Facebook and spreadsheets. The world contains an unimaginable amount of digital information, which is used in a multitude of ways. “Data in Real Life” aims to demonstrate the ways in which data is gathered and used across different industries to help companies beat the competition, stay afloat, or expand. Join us as we recollect our internship experiences. |
| Lindsay Andon |
Growing, One Phone Bill At A Time |
| Jolina M. Harris |
Exceeding Expectations: Data in Healthcare Administration |
| Yixi Chen |
The Power of Questions: An insider view of in-house strategy consulting |
| Mary Kate Buttenheim |
Communication and Promptness in the Real Estate Industry |
| Clapp 206 |
Time Spent: Finding Justice Across the Spectrum of Public Engagement |
| What happens when you put two English majors, a Math major, and a Psychology major in a room? At Mount Holyoke, you can find a discussion about the intersection of public life and government action. During the summer of 2015, each of these women gained insight into government influence by working across a spectrum of political involvement. As panelists, we will depict our various summer experiences and illustrate our significant contributions to the government process, from evaluating the possible impact of Obama's proposed Overtime Rule through a financial lens to facilitating a creative writing workshop for formerly incarcerated women. Together, we hope to provide personal perspectives on the interplay of government policymaking and advocacy through engagement, which so powerfully shapes and is shaped by individual lives and collective communities. |
| Helen Minett |
In a New York State of Mind: Budgeting for NYC |
| Libby Kao |
Delineating “The Fight for Civil Rights” through Legal Advocacy in Government and Policy |
| Meghan Ryan |
Welcome to the Government, How Can I Help You? |
| Deirdre Brazenall |
Speaking from the Depths: Interning with Voices from Inside |
| Clapp 218 |
Small Subjects, Big Picture |
| While the term “lab rat” may sound derogatory to some, in reality, small animal models are a rich source of insight into intriguing biological and neuroscientific questions. From the molecular underpinnings of learning, memory, and emotion, to the intricate mechanical engineering crucial for locomotion - model organisms such as mice, rats, and even toads can help uncover the answers. These pocket-sized critters are not only great as pets, but they can also pack a powerful scientific punch! Although their specific scientific questions of interest differed, these four panelists extracted crucial information from animal models that can be applied to a variety of aspects of life. |
| Malosree Maitra |
Stress and Aggression in Serotonin Deficient Knock-out Rodent Models |
| Elizabeth Brija |
Modulation of Homeostatic Plasticity by Npas4 in Hippocampal Neurons |
| Tilar Martin |
It's All in the Behavior |
| Sarah Crocker |
What comes after the leap for cane toads? |
| Clapp 306 |
Empowering Vulnerable Populations |
| Small liberal arts colleges, such as Mount Holyoke, are unique in that they nurture a quality education -- encouraging constant questioning, critiquing, and analysis of world issues, and equipping students with the tools to tackle these issues from diverse perspectives. To practically apply this knowledge and skill set, each of us chose to intern for non-governmental organizations (NGOs) this past summer, both locally and globally based, which positioned us to work directly with and through communities, respective to our desired interests. Rather than speaking on behalf of the communities with whom we worked, we instead acted as megaphones through which community members projected their voices. During our internships, we tackled issues such as fighting for government transparency, researching and engaging specific development strategies and methods for social poverty alleviation, as well as participatory planning and implementation of community-generated profitable projects. By working closely with those actively undergoing these issues, each of us gained fresh, well-rounded perspectives of cultures and communities both familiar and foreign to us. |
| Mahnoor Malik |
Effective policies based on informed research: UNICEF’s strategy for Child Poverty Reduction |
| Hannah Rickard |
The Participatory Approach in Action: Discovering What's Behind Working for an International NGO |
| Maheera Hussain |
Socio-Economic Internship at UNDP Jordan |
| Tori Tulloch |
NGO Branches and Bodies - Making the Global Local |
| Cleveland L1 |
Scaled Approaches to Social Justice within the Community |
| Social justice is working its way through communities around the world with the help of non-profit and non-governmental organizations. From Hanoi, Vietnam to Minneapolis, Minnesota the panelists worked in a broad range of nonprofit/public sector organizations focused on the issues of racial equality, poverty reduction, social protection, education and public policy across the globe. The panelists were placed in positions which allowed them to grow both personally and professionally. In this panel, they will provide a glimpse into their experiences of working to promote social justice issues within local communities through organizations of varied sizes. They will examine the obstacles they faced, and the unexpected opportunities that were provided to them. |
| Lillie Benowitz |
Racial Equity Work in the Public Sector |
| Katherine Danyluk |
Remembering Frances Perkins: Working to Raise Social and Economic Awareness |
| Alizeh Zaman |
UNICEF, UNITED NATIONS, Vietnam: Mitigating Child Poverty through Research and Policy Briefs |
| Gopika Nambiar |
Girl Rising: Education from Behind the Scenes |
| Cleveland L2 |
Lonely Gal: On Being the Odd One Out |
| This panel will discuss the experiences of four Mount Holyoke students who worked across the American continent but also across different fields. While two of us were doing research, one of us was teaching English in Argentina and another one working on Wall Street. Despite our seemingly different experiences, all of us had to ask ourselves important questions. How can we challenge hierarchies and normative ideas? How do we handle controversial or ambiguous research results? How do we work effectively in a male-dominated environment? Our summer internships required making adjustments and compromises to overcome the unanticipated issues we faced in our new work environments. While the road to answering these questions can be a lonely one, we all used our Mount Holyoke education to gain some insight into them, and hope to share our individual reflections on a challenging summer. |
| Constance Fontanet |
Reframing the Conversation around Phyllodes Tumors of the Breast |
| Maura Anderson |
Classroom Pedagogy |
| Achaetey Kabal |
Small Device, Big Impact: On the Future of Solar Energy |
| Meher Habib |
The Citi that Never Sleeps: Life as a Wall St. Intern |
| Cleveland L3 |
Science research around the world: Vietnam, Germany, England, and...California |
| Studying scientific research in a professional lab setting can be daunting, but try conducting research in a place that is unfamiliar to you. We connected with primary investigators all over the world in order to be hired as research assistants, resulting in sustained research projects in Vietnam, Germany, England, and…California. Although our individual project goals were different, we all acquired skills in optimization and studying protein function. Cloning DNA, making stable cell lines, and studying the cardiovascular system in mice were only some of the skills that we acquired this summer. Furthermore, each of our projects sought to bring new, relevant knowledge for use in industry or medicine. Come join our panel to learn what it is like to work in a lab and how you can conduct research in a foreign country next summer. |
| Stuti Devkota |
Bacterial Metabolic Engineering for Carotenoid Production |
| Emma O'Leary |
Building expression constructs for adhesion G protein-coupled receptor 116 |
| Eudoria Lee |
Histological and Molecular Analysis of the Cardiovascular Conduction System |
| Thao Nguyen |
Cloning, sequencing, and expression of the gene encoding an endo-beta-1,4-xylanase from Myceliophthora heterothallica and Myceliophthora thermophila, and characterization of the recombinant enzyme |
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