4:45pm EDT
All Roads Are the Right One
Moderators KO
Visiting Lecturer in English
Speakers
School Photos: Another Tool for Genealogy Research, History Major
Historical societies are a vital component to preserving local history. These organizations collect and preserve items that connect the past to the present. Their archives may include equipment related to town industry, paintings from local artists, and regional textiles of historical...
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One Is Enough, History Major
One often enters into an internship with high expectations: to gain extensive knowledge of their field of study in multiple areas. This goes doubly for those whose internships were only described in vague terms; becoming an “assistant” or “helper” can mean any number of things...
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Learning to Listen: an Exploration of the Independent Publishing World, Critical Social Thought Major
Through LYNK, I had the opportunity to work as a general editor with the online literary magazine and podcast Voicemail Poems, which seeks to highlight the raw and authentic voices of new and established writers of all genres. Poets submit to the magazine by reading their original...
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Exploring the Art World, Art History and Economics Major
This summer, my internship in the Samuel Freeman gallery really made an impact on me. The impact is substantial because I witnessed and experienced the dynamic operation of the contemporary commercial art gallery in terms of sale, exhibition installation and artist studio visitation...
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Friday October 20, 2017 4:45pm - 5:40pm EDT
Kendade 303
4:45pm EDT
American Norms in a Global Context
Moderators
Co-Chair of the Development Studies Nexus; Professor of History
Speakers
An Introduction to Herbal Medicine in Monteverde, Costa Rica, Anthropology Major
In the face of globalizing biomedicalization, traditional medicinal plant use remains in practice throughout Costa Rica. In Monteverde, both biomedical technologies and herbal medicine exist simultaneously, providing two different interpretive frameworks which residents utilize in...
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English as Cultural Capital, International Relations Major
Intercultural language learning can stop the monopolization of American and British cultural norms by encouraging the learner to bring their own culture into the classroom while learning English. Two summers ago, I had the opportunity to work for a private language institution, Home...
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The Role of NGOS in Post-War Reconciliation 40 Years Out, History Major
The War in Vietnam has left an indelible mark on Vietnam and the United States. Bringing about reconciliation between the two countries has been a multi-pronged effort, of which NGOs are a substantial part. This past summer, I had the opportunity to work in Hanoi, Vietnam for the...
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From Cotton to Gold: Labor in a Global Context, History Major
It is not often we think about the human labor that goes into the goods we consume, or the laws that govern that labor. It is also not often we consider where, and how, our goods are produced. This summer, I gained a much deeper understanding of global labor issues through research...
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4:45pm EDT
Connecting the Dots: Working with Data and Identifying Trends around the World
Moderators SA
Associate Professor of Economics
Speakers
Why User Experience Matters, Sociology Major
This summer I worked as a digital marketing intern for a tech-startup called TUTEN, in Santiago, Chile. This data driven position not only refined my analytical skills, but it allowed me to see the meaningful impact data has on a company, no matter the size of the company. I focused...
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Marketing at a Multinational Corporation, Economics and International Relations Major
This past summer, Advika worked at Tetra Pak India, a multinational organization that provides sustainable packaging and processing solutions to clients across the globe, as a marketing intern. During her time there, she assisted with their three-year business development planning...
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Step-by-Step Sustainability: Combining Data-Driven Work and a Passion for the Environment, Environmental Studies and French Major
What does it mean to be a sustainable city? How do you measure the social, economic, and environmental vitality of a city and determine how well it is doing over time and compared to other cities? This summer I interned with the U.S. Green Building Council and worked on solutions...
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Economics and Italian Major
Friday October 20, 2017 4:45pm - 5:40pm EDT
Clapp 206
4:45pm EDT
Diversity within Veterinary Medicine
Moderators
Speakers
A Call for Animal Lovers: Internship at House Call Veterinary Services, Biology Major
Interested in learning about an alternative veterinary career path? House call veterinary services is a mobile veterinary practice treating exclusively cats and dogs, providing quality medical care for your pet in a home environment, from minor allergy problems to chronic diseases...
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Dog Wrangler Extraordinaire: My Summer as a Veterinary Intern, Biology Major
I spent the summer interning at Randolph Animal Hospital, a small animal clinic close to my hometown. During the internship, I trained to take on the duties of a veterinary technician, meaning that I spent much of my time taking patient histories, assisting with appointments, restraining...
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From South Hadley to South Africa: Connecting Veterinary Experiences at Home and Abroad, Biology Major
This past summer I traveled to the Eastern Cape, South Africa, where I worked as a veterinary intern. While there, I learned from and assisted veterinarians in a variety of environments, including wildlife game reserves, industrial and small-scale farms, and in small and large animal...
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Specialized Care for Working Canines, Biology Major
Grace is studying to become a veterinarian specifically for working canines, because she believes working dogs’ indispensable daily performance requires specialized medical care. In order to learn more about this specific interest, Grace did her summer internship with The Seeing...
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4:45pm EDT
Exhibiting the Visibility of Museums and Galleries: From England to New England
Moderators
Professor of Art History, Mount Holyoke College
Speakers
Nesting into Russian History: the Connection between History and Art in Museum Donations, Russian and Eurasian Studies Major
I spent my summer interning at the Museum of Russian Art (TMORA) in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This presentation will explore the connection between art and history that is inherent in all curatorial museum work, and specifically, in the donation of over 700 nesting dolls, lacquer boxes...
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Your Mind on Art: Applying Psychology in a Museum Context, Psychology Major
This summer I dedicated my internship search to exploring the various ways in which my major, psychology, can be applied in the non-academic world. I ended up working in the evaluation department of the Peabody Essex Museum, an American maritime and Chinese export art museum in Salem...
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Robin Blaetz, Film Studies
Small Museum Big Artist: My Summer in the Archives, Art History Major
During the summer of 2017 I interned at the Cape Ann Museum, a local art and maritime museum on Boston’s north shore. I worked primarily in their library and archives. One of the projects for which I was responsible was cataloging the Virginia Lee Burton collection. Burton was a...
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Friday October 20, 2017 4:45pm - 5:40pm EDT
Clapp 218
4:45pm EDT
Flexibility in Design and Culture
Moderators MD
Professor of Art History, Mount Holyoke College
Speakers 1S
Michael Davis, Art History and Architectural Studies
To Be an International Designer in This Cultural Swirl, Architecture Major
As future international designers, how could we balance what we learned from school with what is needed in the office, and how do we navigate our work while people in the office are working in a different pattern than us? I have worked in four different design offices in four different...
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Designing Internationally: Challenges Faced and Lessons Learned, Computer Science Major
Design can be affected a by a great variety of factors, cultural and social contexts included. As the Design Intern for VietAbroader 2017 Career Conference, Olive Tran's goal was to brainstorm and design compelling promotional materials to attract Vietnamese youth. Through her internship...
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Compromise and Resist, Architecture and Math Major
Designers’ approaches toward a certain task are unambivalently shaped by their cultures. Placing different cultures in a high-density working environment predictably causes friction: a classic exemplar of such a conflict is a designer from a technology-dependent background experiencing...
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Friday October 20, 2017 4:45pm - 5:40pm EDT
Carr 102
4:45pm EDT
Fostering a Sense of Place Through Literary Work
Moderators AR
Assistant Professor of English, Mount Holyoke College
I love to talk about ideas of all kinds. I am a first-generation student and come from a working-class background.
Speakers
Seven Months to Launch: One Senior’s Career and Community Epiphany, English Major
What happens when a red Pegasus takes on an internship at her hometown library? She gets a chance to be a changemaker in a way that’s close to home in more ways than one. For Katie, an unexpected summer internship turned into a passion project and eventually crystallized in her...
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Agent, Editor, Author: Planning for a Future in Publishing, Five College Film Studies Major
Ever wonder what happens to a book before it lands on an editor’s desk? Trisha spent her summer immersed in the New York City publishing scene through her work at InkWell Management, a literary agency with a client base ranging from Anthony Bourdain to Markus Zusak. This presentation...
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Increasing Accessibility and Incentivizing Engagement: Community-Building in a City of Nine Million, History Major
Molly Libbey spent her summer interning at House of SpeakEasy, an organization dedicated to increasing accessibility to literary works and fostering students’ love of literature. Working in the field of development, Molly gained valuable skills including grant research and writing...
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Farm Wisdom: How Going Back Helped Move a Novel Forward, English and Religion Major
Sometimes life doesn’t lead to an internship. Carlin spent her summer working on the first draft and a revision of a novel in verse. Using habits and skills learned from poetry courses and a course on children’s literature at Mount Holyoke, Carlin wrote narrative poetry, telling...
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Friday October 20, 2017 4:45pm - 5:40pm EDT
Kendade 305
4:45pm EDT
From Bench to Bedside: What They Don't Teach You in Pre-Health Classes
Moderators JS
Assistant Professor of Psychology and Education
Speakers 1M
Jared Schwartzer, Neuroscience & Behavior
Clinical Research in Cardiology: It's More than Just a Wet Lab, Neuroscience Major
Clinical research is one of the areas of medicine where many innovations in healthcare for patients takes place. These clinical trials and research have many components and aspects in order for them to work properly. As a clinical research assistant at the Massachusetts General Hospital...
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A Beacon of my Future: Life as a Physical Therapist, Special Major
I spent my summer as a physical therapy intern at Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine in Cincinnati, Ohio. I worked specifically with one team of therapists, consisting of two physical therapists and two physical therapy assistants. My responsibilities included setting up equipment...
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Blazing New Trails: A Novel Approach to Eldercare, Psychology Major
Panelist Riley Maddox spent his summer as a research assistant for Baystate Medical Center's Acute Care for Elders program. As Baystate has one of the top 40 geriatric care programs in the United States, Riley spent his summer coming to understand what the program does differently...
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The Examined Life: Modeling Continuities in Care from Pediatric to Geriatric Health, Biology and Religion Major
In a healthcare system that is as diverse as it is continuously diversifying, the need to understand our differences and the contexts in which the individual is formed and forming is more important than ever. From the conversation we have with a child on why he has been having trouble...
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Friday October 20, 2017 4:45pm - 5:40pm EDT
Reese 316
4:45pm EDT
Research and Development: Programming across Disciplines
Moderators
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Speakers
The Data Behind Biosurveillance, Statistics Major
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is one of 17 US Department of Energy National Laboratories. Through their National Security Internship Program, I was placed in the data science and analytics group where I worked with a team of staff and other interns to develop and improve an...
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Software Engineering in the Finance Industry, Computer Science Major
My summer at Nationwide, an insurance and finance company, gave me important duties and responsibilities where I directly coded results that would affect thousands of their customers, such as designing their applications and doing data analysis for project upgrades. As an application...
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Undergraduate Research in Math: What Should You Expect, Math Major
This summer, I participated in an undergraduate research program (REU) for mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University. I worked on an independent applied mathematics project with my advisor on examining the impact of three-point differentials on winning a game in the NBA. The application...
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Summer 2017: Data, Research and Programming, Economics and Statistics Major
Over the summer, I did statistics on-campus research with Professor Tim Chumley in a group of two for eight weeks. Our research topic was a more in-depth study of the Stochastic Processes, which incorporated Brownian Motion, Ito’s Lemma and Differential Equations, etc. This summer...
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Friday October 20, 2017 4:45pm - 5:40pm EDT
Kendade 203
4:45pm EDT
The Power of a Young Mind
Moderators
Speakers
Thinking Critically with Preschool Children, Psychology Major
Over the course of this summer I worked in the preschool classroom at Gorse Children’s Center, a private research-based school. I taught alongside two other preschool teachers who worked together to create a stimulating and individualized classroom curriculum for children three...
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Child Scientists Wanted: Lessons from Infant Cognition Research, Psychology Major
Most people’s first thoughts when seeing a baby do not include how that infant is processing information. For some, though, those inner processes are key to understanding ourselves as humans of any age. Infant cognition research gives insight into what skills and proclivities we...
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The Beauty in the Challenge of Education in Nicaragua, Psychology Major
Podcasts for Peace is a social justice community center that helps children in the community of Managua, Nicaragua grow. Their goal is to offer a safe space for children to become leaders and enrich their lives through creative expression, academic and life skills, along with health...
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Friday October 20, 2017 4:45pm - 5:40pm EDT
Reese 304
4:45pm EDT
The Power of Storytelling: Writing as Social Change
Moderators EY
Carl M. and Elsie A. Small Professor of English
Speakers
Stories of Youth Leadership: Writing for Global Development and Social Justice, Five College Film and Sociology Major
I was the Director of Storytelling's intern at the Millennium Campus Network (MCN), a nonprofit organization in Boston, MA, this summer. MCN is dedicated to training a new generation of ethical, effective, and engaged social impact leaders in the global development sector. As an intern...
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Elizabeth Markovits, Politics
Amplifying Young Voices: Working in Nonprofit Publications, English Major
I spent this summer as a Publications Intern at 826CHI, a chapter of a national nonprofit that provides free creative writing programs to students. My role was to transform manuscripts of student writing, from sci-fi plays to political poems, into professionally-published books. I...
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The Power of Storytelling: Journalism, English and Religion Major
I spent this summer as a newspaper intern at The La Grande Observer in La Grande, Oregon. At the newspaper I worked with journalists and photographers to report on news in Wallowa and Union county. I managed the newspaper’s web site and social media, attended local events and interviewed...
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Friday October 20, 2017 4:45pm - 5:40pm EDT
Clapp 306
4:45pm EDT
The Ripple Effect: Impacting Policy Locally, Nationally, and Internationally
Moderators
Speakers
Young, Scrappy, and Hungry: Fast-Track to Becoming a Lawyer, Philosophy and Politics Major
This summer, I worked as a law clerk for the Gove Law Office in Northampton, Massachusetts. As an aspiring attorney, I was ecstatic to be able to experience the legal world as a rising junior. Furthermore, I wasn’t just tasked with menial errands like grabbing coffee and making...
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Testing the Waters of Human Rights and Non-Profit Work, Politics & Sociology Major
This past summer I was able to explore the possibilities of a career in nonprofit work, which gave a more nuanced and informed view of the field. Working at the global-reaching and locally-based non-profit Verite was both rewarding and enlightening as I was able to hone and polish...
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Mapping a Career in Local Government, Environmental Studies Major
This summer I interned with the Town of South Hadley’s Conservation Commission, under the supervision of the town planner and the conservation administrator. I was initially hired to create maps of the trails in the town’s conservation areas, but I found myself involved in much...
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Real Impacts of Theoretical Statutes: Econometric Analysis of the Law, Economics Major
Over the summer, I worked at Stanford Law School, researching for a professor who was interested in looking at the impacts of various firearm policies on crime rates in the country. My work consisted of many different tasks. I wrote literature reviews, compiling and consolidating...
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Friday October 20, 2017 4:45pm - 5:40pm EDT
Kendade 107
4:45pm EDT
Women in Tech - Individuality through Teamwork
Moderators LB
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Speakers
A Woman in Game Development, Computer Science and Mathematics Major
In the summer of 2017 I was part of the Summer Innovation Program of MassDiGI in Worcester, MA. The program brought 28 students together to work on five mobile games. I was on a team of seven people and learned a lot about mobile game development. We created a 2D game called “Raise...
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Mapping Your Way around the Code, and the Company, Computer Science Major
This summer, I spent three months working with a team of developers in Verizon Innovation Labs in Waltham, MA. I was given a sole project to build a library for a web portal that would be used to authenticate its users in a language I had not seen before and was required to give daily...
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Optimizing Virtual Machines - from Data to Action, Computer Science Major
This summer, I returned as a software engineering intern at Google. My team was Google App Engine Flexible Environment (GAE Flex), a platform under Google Cloud, hosting web and mobile applications. As an intern, I built a benchmark suite that evaluates performance-tuning parameters...
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4:45pm EDT
Youth Empowerment and Engagement within the Nonprofit Sector
Moderators JR
Prof. of Anthropology and Asian Studies, Mount Holyoke College
Joshua H. Roth grew up in New York City, the son of two painters. He is the author of Brokered Homeland: Japanese Brazilian Migrants in Japan(Cornell University Press in 2002), winner of the 2004 Book Award in Social Science from the Association for Asian American Studies. More recently...
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Speakers
The RYSE Program, Undecided
Key Estime is a first-generation, low-income student who has been involved in a local non-profit youth empowerment organization for seven years. As a high school graduate, Key could not afford private college. However, with the support of a mentor, they chose a community college to...
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Cultivating Curiosity for Education., Economics and Nexus in Non-Profits Major
The increase in immigration rates and refugee populations led to my enthusiasm towards getting involved in non-governmental organizations and specifically focusing on advocating for the well-being and education for all ages. During summer, I interned at The Children’s Museum Jordan...
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Psychology and Africana Studies Major
For the summer of 2017, Epyana Smith worked on the development team at a nonprofit organization named “Arts East New York” (AENY). AENY is based in the East New York neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY. AENY looks to support East New York through the arts; its mission is rooted in the...
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Encouraging Innovation in Youth, Economics Major
This summer, I served as a teacher’s assistant for the Berkeley Business Academy for Youth. In teams, my students were able to develop business plans for independent start-ups with capital for a product of their own innovation. For many students, this was the first opportunity they...
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Friday October 20, 2017 4:45pm - 5:40pm EDT
Clapp 407