by Rijul Bhimwal | Oct 4, 2019 | Eberly, Student, Study Abroad/Study Away, Systems Thinking, Underrepresented Minorities, University Park
I was fortunate enough to secure a DAAD RISE research internship to spend 12 weeks in the summer of 2019 at the Volker lab at Universität Bielefeld, located in the city of Bielefeld in the north-west of Germany. The focus of my research was on the biotechnological...
by Malini Suresh Nair | Aug 29, 2019 | Eberly, Professional Development, Student, Undergraduate Research, Underrepresented Minorities, University Park
During the summer of 2019, I conducted an independent research project at the Crowley lab, led by Dr. Nicole Crowley, at Penn State- University Park. Here, I had the opportunity to study the implications of the somatostatin hormone in the brain in alcohol use...
by Caitlan Surgeon | Aug 5, 2019 | Eberly, Multicultural Awareness, Student, Study Abroad/Study Away, Underrepresented Minorities, University Park
I took Art 299:Foreign Studies. The topic of the study abroad class was Indigenous Cultural Studies in the Visual Arts. We visited New Zealand and Australia for a total of three weeks. In New Zealand, we learned about the history and culture of the Maori people. In...
by Stanley Moussignac | Jun 3, 2019 | Fayette, Multicultural Awareness, Student, Study Abroad/Study Away, Underrepresented Minorities
Our class had the great opportunity to visit the city of Rome for spring break. We were tasked to incorporate our previous religious understandings from class into the cultural lifestyle displayed by the city’s monuments and overall structure. This experience was very...
by Symone McCollum | May 30, 2019 | Education, Professional Development, Student, Undergraduate Research, Underrepresented Minorities, University Park
I went to the 2019 American Association of Blacks in Higher Education conference in Indianapolis, Indiana for four days. The first three days consisted of presentations varying in topics within higher education, and I was able to present my own research on the final...
by Kimberly Martinez | May 1, 2019 | Liberal Arts, Professional Development, Student, Study Abroad/Study Away, Underrepresented Minorities, University Park
For Crim 425: Organized Crime, I had the opportunity to go to Curacao for Spring Break 2019. It was a week full of activities and of learning about the Dutch Caribbean. Earlier in the week, I got the chance to experience Carnival, see the different influences in their...
