What summer job is better for college students – one that pays well and allows them to save money and pay for expenses, or one that doesn't pay anything but gives them the career-related experience they need to help land a "real" job after college graduation? It's a dilemma that many students face during the summer and sometimes it's difficult to find a job that provides both.
Thanks to generous Hamilton alumni and parents, 23 students are enjoying the best of both worlds this summer as they were awarded funding from the College to pursue summer internships around the U.S. and abroad. This is the third year of the Career Center-sponsored program and the numbers are increasing, up from 13 in 2006 and two in 2005.
"The Career Center hopes to build on this in the coming years, to increase the numbers of students who have these kinds of stipends/grants to over 50+ in a few years," said Kino Ruth, Career Center director.
Thirteen students received funding this summer through the Joseph F. Anderson Internship Fund, established in honor of a 1944 Hamilton graduate who served the College for 18 years as vice president for communications and development. The fund that now bears his name was established by fellow alumni in recognition of his long-standing association and commitment to Hamilton. It provides individual stipends to support full-time internships for students wishing to expand their educational horizons in preparation for potential careers after graduation.
This summer's Anderson Fund recipients and their internships are: Kimberly Bauer '08, Wild Metro Environmental, New York City; Megan Brousseau '08, medic and orthopedic clinic technician at the U.S. Army Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany; Genevieve Flanders '09, neurobiology research, Woods Hole, Mass.; Phillip Holdredge '08, Coalition for American Leadership Abroad, Washington, D.C.; Blake Hulnick '09, King's County District Attorney, Brooklyn; Xiaobo Ma '09, Archery Capital, New York City; Abhishek Maity '08, researching the effect of foreign exchange rates on India's economic development at the Center for Policy Research in Delhi, India; Benjamin Noble '08, Peter Roskam, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C.; Adele Paquin '07, marine biology, Sonoma State University, California; Ramunas Rozgys, '09 Archery Capital, New York City; Razeena Shrestha '09, Ashoka Youth Fellowship Program, Nepal; Emma Stewart '09, Vermont Soy & Vermont Natural Coatings, Vermont; and, Ntokozo Xaba '08, Corporate Council on Africa, Washington, D.C.
Ten other Hamilton students have received funding through other college sources. The Jeffrey Fund for Science provides stipends for off-campus student internships in the sciences and/or on-campus faculty-student collaborative research projects in the sciences. Travis Blood '09 and Sharfi Farhana '09 are this year's recipients. Blood is at the Integrative Cerebral Hemodynamics Lab at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, and Farhana is working at the Tuberculosis Control Program in Bangladesh.
Xin Wang '09 received funding through the Richard and Patsy Couper Grant. It 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. Wang is working at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
Kathryn Plummer '08 is working at Arnold Worldwide in Boston. She is the first recipient of the Class of 2006 Internship Fund, established as the senior gift under the leadership of Class of 2006 Senior Gift Chairs Zoe Baldwin and Katrina Fredlund.
With support from a grant from Jim '71 and Sue K'72 Morgan, Mariam Ballout '10 is employed at WTEN-TV in Albany, N.Y. Fenglin Zhao '10 is working at International Enterprise Singapore in New York City with funding from the Summer Internship Support Fund, supported by John Rice '78. Lyndra Vassar '09 is interning with the public relations office of MTV in Los Angeles, funded by Blake Darcy '78, while Leeann Brigham '09 is working in neuroscience at UCLA with support from Bruce Dobkin '69. Li Qiu '09 is at Merrill Lynch in New York City and Rani Doyon '08 at the SYDA Foundation in South Fallsburg, N.Y., through the generosity of awards from the Monica Odening Student Internship and Research Fund in Mathematics.
Thanks to generous Hamilton alumni and parents, 23 students are enjoying the best of both worlds this summer as they were awarded funding from the College to pursue summer internships around the U.S. and abroad. This is the third year of the Career Center-sponsored program and the numbers are increasing, up from 13 in 2006 and two in 2005.
"The Career Center hopes to build on this in the coming years, to increase the numbers of students who have these kinds of stipends/grants to over 50+ in a few years," said Kino Ruth, Career Center director.
Thirteen students received funding this summer through the Joseph F. Anderson Internship Fund, established in honor of a 1944 Hamilton graduate who served the College for 18 years as vice president for communications and development. The fund that now bears his name was established by fellow alumni in recognition of his long-standing association and commitment to Hamilton. It provides individual stipends to support full-time internships for students wishing to expand their educational horizons in preparation for potential careers after graduation.
This summer's Anderson Fund recipients and their internships are: Kimberly Bauer '08, Wild Metro Environmental, New York City; Megan Brousseau '08, medic and orthopedic clinic technician at the U.S. Army Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany; Genevieve Flanders '09, neurobiology research, Woods Hole, Mass.; Phillip Holdredge '08, Coalition for American Leadership Abroad, Washington, D.C.; Blake Hulnick '09, King's County District Attorney, Brooklyn; Xiaobo Ma '09, Archery Capital, New York City; Abhishek Maity '08, researching the effect of foreign exchange rates on India's economic development at the Center for Policy Research in Delhi, India; Benjamin Noble '08, Peter Roskam, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C.; Adele Paquin '07, marine biology, Sonoma State University, California; Ramunas Rozgys, '09 Archery Capital, New York City; Razeena Shrestha '09, Ashoka Youth Fellowship Program, Nepal; Emma Stewart '09, Vermont Soy & Vermont Natural Coatings, Vermont; and, Ntokozo Xaba '08, Corporate Council on Africa, Washington, D.C.
Ten other Hamilton students have received funding through other college sources. The Jeffrey Fund for Science provides stipends for off-campus student internships in the sciences and/or on-campus faculty-student collaborative research projects in the sciences. Travis Blood '09 and Sharfi Farhana '09 are this year's recipients. Blood is at the Integrative Cerebral Hemodynamics Lab at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, and Farhana is working at the Tuberculosis Control Program in Bangladesh.
Xin Wang '09 received funding through the Richard and Patsy Couper Grant. It 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. Wang is working at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
Kathryn Plummer '08 is working at Arnold Worldwide in Boston. She is the first recipient of the Class of 2006 Internship Fund, established as the senior gift under the leadership of Class of 2006 Senior Gift Chairs Zoe Baldwin and Katrina Fredlund.
With support from a grant from Jim '71 and Sue K'72 Morgan, Mariam Ballout '10 is employed at WTEN-TV in Albany, N.Y. Fenglin Zhao '10 is working at International Enterprise Singapore in New York City with funding from the Summer Internship Support Fund, supported by John Rice '78. Lyndra Vassar '09 is interning with the public relations office of MTV in Los Angeles, funded by Blake Darcy '78, while Leeann Brigham '09 is working in neuroscience at UCLA with support from Bruce Dobkin '69. Li Qiu '09 is at Merrill Lynch in New York City and Rani Doyon '08 at the SYDA Foundation in South Fallsburg, N.Y., through the generosity of awards from the Monica Odening Student Internship and Research Fund in Mathematics.
