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Last autumn, Andres “Fluffy” Aguilar ’19 embarked on an extensive year of study abroad in the Southern Hemisphere. Aguilar, a Gilman Scholarship recipient, spent his junior year studying all across South America, from comparative education studies in Chile and Argentina, to youth popular culture and youth media studies in Nicaragua and Costa Rica.
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Amari Leigh ’21 has been named a 2018 Newman Civic Fellow by Campus Compact, a Boston-based non-profit organization working to advance the public purposes of higher education.
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Andres “Fluffy” Aguilar ’19 built an academic agenda that is taking him from Hamilton to Chile and back again — and it’s laying the groundwork for him to someday work with college students who face challenges similar to his.
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Eliana Zupcich ’18 turned to the interdisciplinary concentration to fashion her own major in linguistics. It all began in a course called "Language and Sociolinguistics."
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An interest in interfaith dialogue helped Jennie Wilber ’17 shape a course of study that took her from campus to the country of Jordan to a small Central New York city for a summer of research.
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To Jennie Wilber ’17, interfaith and intercultural dialogue is important as a means to understand other people and build empathy across cultural boundaries. With its diverse group of immigrant and refugee communities, Utica is an ideal place to study intercultural interaction. Wilber is doing just that this summer through an Emerson Foundation research project.
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Jake Meserve Blount ’17 is spending his summer traveling to music festivals around the East Coast to research a style of Appalachian old-time music he says is native to Ithaca, N.Y.
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