Jenna van de Ruit '15, International Internship, Chile While on a Dickey International Internship during Winter term 2014, Jenna van de Ruit '15 filmed a documentary in Chile in collaboration with Fundación Mujer Levántate, an organization that provides halfway housing, job networking, and other services to inmates and ex-inmates.
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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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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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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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by Sam Streeter '13, TH '14 Watch Sam's video about his work.
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