Thirteen Hamilton College students were awarded funding from the college to pursue summer internships around the country and overseas. Nine students received funding through the Joseph F. Anderson Internship Fund, while the Jeffrey Fund in Science, the Richard and Patsy Couper Grant, the Summer Internship Support Fund and the George and Martha Darcy Internship Support Fund each awarded stipends to one student respectively.
Keya Advani '08, Alison Chiaramonte '08, Elaine Coggins '07, Sara Feuerstein '07, Tumelano Gopolang '08, Caitlin Jacobs '07, Jessica Lewis '07, Katerine McElroy '08 and Alana Pudalov '08 were awarded stipends from the Joseph F. Anderson Internship Fund. The fund was created to honor a 1944 Hamilton graduate who served the college for 18 years as vice president for communications and development. The fund in his name provides for individual stipends to support full-time internships for students wishing to expand their educational horizons in preparation for potential careers after graduation. Internships need not be limited to the student's proposed or declared area of concentration.
• Advani, a comparative literature major, will be interning at the Global Justice Center in New York City, N.Y.
• Chiaramonte, a public policy major, is spending her summer at the U.S. Congress in Washington, D.C., working in the offices of Congressman Sherwood Boehlert of New York and Congressman John Larson of Connecticut.
• Coggins is a psychology major, and her internship is at the Lab for Developmental Studies at Harvard University, where she will investigate how infants and children perceive and reason about the world around them.
• Feuerstein, a government major, will intern at the Embassy of France in Washington, D.C. She will be working in the embassy's Press and Information Office which serves to inform and engage the American public on issues of French policy, society and culture.
• Gopolang is a biology and economics major, and her internship is at the Trinity University Haiti Program in Washington, D.C. The Trinity Haiti Program seeks to provide accurate, up-to-date, and insightful information and analysis to individuals and organizations involved in current Haitian political, economic and social issues.
• Jacobs is a biology major and will be traveling to South Africa to research wildlife, specifically big cats (tigers and lions) at the Enkosini Wildlife Sanctuary.
• Lewis, a public Policy and Spanish major, will be in Washington, D.C. at the Institute for Women's Policy Research. She will assist in the conducting of research and disseminating its findings to address the needs of women, promote public dialogue, and strengthen families, communities, and societies.
• McElroy, a sociology major, is interning at the Big Heavy World Foundation in Vermont. The Foundation's primary mission is to preserve the historical record of music originating in Vermont.
• Pudalov, a psychology major, will be interning at the Children's Mental Health Clinic in White Plains, N.Y. working in a therapeutic nursery for disturbed and homeless children. She will also serve as a volunteer at the Family Abuse Court in Westchester, NY.
Matthew Crowson '09 is the recipient of the Jeffrey Fund for Science. The fund provides stipends for off-campus student internships in the sciences and/or on-campus faculty-student collaborative research projects in the sciences. Crowson's internship is at the world-renowned Ottawa Heart Institute in Ontario. Matthew will assist with research on a Genome-wide scan for genes that predispose to coronary heart disease.
Ruth Dibble '08 received the Richard and Patsy Couper Grant. The grant is awarded in honor of Patsy and the late Richard Couper '44 who for several years have supported summer internships for Hamilton students working in non-profit internships in library science, museums or other non-profit organizations. Dibble, an art history major, will spend her summer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. She will be working in the Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, one of the museum's most comprehensive and important historical collections.
Elena Filekova '08 was awarded the Summer Internship Support Fund. The fund provides grants to cover out-of-pocket expenses including housing and travel, associated with both paid and unpaid student summer internship opportunities at profit and not-for-profit organizations. Filekova will be interning at one of the world's largest financial service companies, ING in New York City.
Sean Sullivan '07 won his stipend from the George and Martha Darcy Internship Support Fund. The fund provides cost-of-living stipends to students possessing a B average or better and pursuing full-time internship opportunities in the areas of communications, writing, advertising, public relations, publishing, and/or media, including print journalism and telecommunications, during the summer between their sophomore and junior years. The philosophy major will be interning at ABC news magazine's Nightline program in New York City.
These yearly awards are given to students after they submit proposals declaring their intentions for a summer internship. The proposals are then reviewed in a competitive process by selection committees and students are interviewed and then chosen for each award. Congratulations to this year's recipients.
-- by Mike Kennett
Keya Advani '08, Alison Chiaramonte '08, Elaine Coggins '07, Sara Feuerstein '07, Tumelano Gopolang '08, Caitlin Jacobs '07, Jessica Lewis '07, Katerine McElroy '08 and Alana Pudalov '08 were awarded stipends from the Joseph F. Anderson Internship Fund. The fund was created to honor a 1944 Hamilton graduate who served the college for 18 years as vice president for communications and development. The fund in his name provides for individual stipends to support full-time internships for students wishing to expand their educational horizons in preparation for potential careers after graduation. Internships need not be limited to the student's proposed or declared area of concentration.
• Advani, a comparative literature major, will be interning at the Global Justice Center in New York City, N.Y.
• Chiaramonte, a public policy major, is spending her summer at the U.S. Congress in Washington, D.C., working in the offices of Congressman Sherwood Boehlert of New York and Congressman John Larson of Connecticut.
• Coggins is a psychology major, and her internship is at the Lab for Developmental Studies at Harvard University, where she will investigate how infants and children perceive and reason about the world around them.
• Feuerstein, a government major, will intern at the Embassy of France in Washington, D.C. She will be working in the embassy's Press and Information Office which serves to inform and engage the American public on issues of French policy, society and culture.
• Gopolang is a biology and economics major, and her internship is at the Trinity University Haiti Program in Washington, D.C. The Trinity Haiti Program seeks to provide accurate, up-to-date, and insightful information and analysis to individuals and organizations involved in current Haitian political, economic and social issues.
• Jacobs is a biology major and will be traveling to South Africa to research wildlife, specifically big cats (tigers and lions) at the Enkosini Wildlife Sanctuary.
• Lewis, a public Policy and Spanish major, will be in Washington, D.C. at the Institute for Women's Policy Research. She will assist in the conducting of research and disseminating its findings to address the needs of women, promote public dialogue, and strengthen families, communities, and societies.
• McElroy, a sociology major, is interning at the Big Heavy World Foundation in Vermont. The Foundation's primary mission is to preserve the historical record of music originating in Vermont.
• Pudalov, a psychology major, will be interning at the Children's Mental Health Clinic in White Plains, N.Y. working in a therapeutic nursery for disturbed and homeless children. She will also serve as a volunteer at the Family Abuse Court in Westchester, NY.
Matthew Crowson '09 is the recipient of the Jeffrey Fund for Science. The fund provides stipends for off-campus student internships in the sciences and/or on-campus faculty-student collaborative research projects in the sciences. Crowson's internship is at the world-renowned Ottawa Heart Institute in Ontario. Matthew will assist with research on a Genome-wide scan for genes that predispose to coronary heart disease.
Ruth Dibble '08 received the Richard and Patsy Couper Grant. The grant is awarded in honor of Patsy and the late Richard Couper '44 who for several years have supported summer internships for Hamilton students working in non-profit internships in library science, museums or other non-profit organizations. Dibble, an art history major, will spend her summer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. She will be working in the Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, one of the museum's most comprehensive and important historical collections.
Elena Filekova '08 was awarded the Summer Internship Support Fund. The fund provides grants to cover out-of-pocket expenses including housing and travel, associated with both paid and unpaid student summer internship opportunities at profit and not-for-profit organizations. Filekova will be interning at one of the world's largest financial service companies, ING in New York City.
Sean Sullivan '07 won his stipend from the George and Martha Darcy Internship Support Fund. The fund provides cost-of-living stipends to students possessing a B average or better and pursuing full-time internship opportunities in the areas of communications, writing, advertising, public relations, publishing, and/or media, including print journalism and telecommunications, during the summer between their sophomore and junior years. The philosophy major will be interning at ABC news magazine's Nightline program in New York City.
These yearly awards are given to students after they submit proposals declaring their intentions for a summer internship. The proposals are then reviewed in a competitive process by selection committees and students are interviewed and then chosen for each award. Congratulations to this year's recipients.
-- by Mike Kennett
