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  • Student Learns About Poverty Working on Microfinance in the Dominican Republic

    June 26, 2014

    by Elliot Sandborn '14, International Internship, Dominican Republic I lived in the barrios of East Santo Domingo and worked at a Banco ADEMI, the largest private, for-profit microfinance bank in the Dominican Republic, and one of the largest and most successful microfinance banks in Latin America. I lived with a local Dominican friend, Sam, whom I had met in the summer of 2009 as a high school volunteer in rural community in San Juan, DR.

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  • Kayaking Siberia's Lake Baikal to Evaluate the Effect of Climate Change

    May 19, 2014

    by Anna Gleizer '14, Stefansson Research Fellowship, Lake Baikal, Russia During summer 2012, I became the youngest woman to kayak the circumference of Siberia's Lake Baikal. The journey through Russia and into eastern Siberia took two weeks and the circumnavigation itself lasted 45 days, during which I collected hydrology data for an independent research project aimed at evaluating the effect of global climate change and localized anthropomorphic pollution on the quality of Baikal water.

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  • The Effects of Off-shore Drilling on Barrow, Alaska

    May 19, 2014

    by Michael Berger '14, Stefansson Research Fellowship, Barrow, Alaska My research focused on how the Barrow, Alaska community could stand to benefit from offshore oil drilling that could happen over the next several decades. I looked at how political and corporate institutions such as the North Slope Borough and the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation are acting as players in securing benefits from the drilling.

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  • Working with Grassroots Community Clinic in Rural Peru

    May 19, 2014

    by Sam Steeter '13, TH '14, International Internship, Peru, Sacred Valley Health In addition to my academic interests in engineering, I have a long-term interest in global health and medicine in rural and under-resourced locations. In the spring of 2012, I undertook a Dickey Center internship in a small mountain community called Ollantaytambo, in the Sacred Valley of the Inca, Peru, with a newly formed, non-governmental, non-profit organization called Sacred Valley Health.

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