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  • A Perfect Stepping Stone to International Economic Development

    August 13, 2014

    Todor Plamenov Parushev '14 International Internship, Chile Todor Plamenov Parushev '14 completed an internship with the Natural Resources and Infrastructure Division of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UN-ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile. The UN-ECALC is a part of the UN Economic and Social Council that works in the areas of economic and social development, executing independent economic research, providing advisory services to governments, and other support activities towards public policy pre-shaping.

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  • Improving Water Access in South Africa

    August 10, 2014

    by Georgi Klissurki '14, ThinkImpact, South Africa My summer in South Africa working with ThinkImpact helping villagers find ways to improve water access has had and will continue to have an extremely strong impact on my life. Academically, I realized how well my two majors, engineering and economics, combine in real life, and particularly in entrepreneurship. In addition, I found great value in design thinking, an approach to innovation that integrates numerous disciplines and emphasizes empathy through utilizing the so-called human-centered design method.

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  • How Temperature Change Affects the Greenland Ice Sheet

    August 8, 2014
    Gifford Wong

    Gifford Wong, Ph.D. Student, Earth Sciences Gifford Wong looks at the effect of climate change on the growth and decay of the Greenland Ice Sheet (GIS). He studies how changes in temperature affect our ability to assess the health of the GIS.

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  • The Yeti Robot Looks for Dangerous Crevasses

    August 8, 2014
    Rebecca Williams

    Rebecca Williams, PhD, Engineering Rebecca William's research while she was a Thayer School of Engineering graduate student involved creating higher-level intelligence and control software for a four-wheel robot called Yeti. It pulls ground penetrating radar behind it to find crevasses. Each year heavy equipment resupply missions travel to remote, heavily crevassed locations in Greenland and Antarctica. Rebecca worked on the Yeti robot that tows Ground Penetration Radar to detect crevasses.

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  • Preserving Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Greenland

    August 8, 2014
    Simone Whitecloud

    Simone Whitecloud, PhD student, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Simone Whitecloud documents plant names and uses in order to preserve traditional knowledge. Plant ranges are changing in response to a changing climate, and her data will preserve knowledge that would otherwise be lost as plant ranges shift and practitioners lose access to the same plants.

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