Homelessness wasn’t something Abby Hershberger was familiar with while growing up in Millersburg, Ohio, a town of about 3,500 residents. “It didn’t happen to people I knew,” she says. “It ... read more about ‘Street Sense’ editorial intern helps provide a voice for the homeless in Washington D.C.
Nathan McKnight recognized a quality of reciprocity in his spring semester internship. The people who come through the “freedom circles” hosted by the organization Reunion, he says, “are improving me, ... read more about In Reunion’s ‘Freedom Circles,’ peacebuilding major facilitates life changes and his own learning
In the National Portrait Gallery hangs a portrait of every president of the United States. Elsa Miller was recently present for the latest addition, which was, strangely enough, the portrait ... read more about Portrait of fictional president unveiled while student-historian interns at American Art and Portrait Gallery library
Daniel Shenk-Moreno visited Barcelona six times in the past year. The city offers many attractions, but for Shenk-Moreno, a lifelong Barcelona fan, seeing his favorite soccer team defeat Manchester City ... read more about International business grad, fluent in Spanish with a passion for soccer, guides sports team tours around the world
Here’s just of few of Bryce Yoder’s highlights from his first “semester” out of college working as a vegetation and ecological restoration intern in Yosemite National Park in California: uprooting ... read more about Fall internship in Yosemite National Park helps sustainability graduate gain more fieldwork experience
Education, social justice, Christ-centered, equity, MEMPHIS! With these five themes, Quinn Kathrineberg, a junior English education major at Eastern Mennonite University, recently attempted to spark interest among her fellow classmates ... read more about An internship in Memphis last summer gave this future teacher the opportunity to share her love of learning
Sometimes, the best-made plans fall apart. That’s what happened last summer to senior Gee M. Paegar, Jr., currently in his last semester of environmental sustainability and history studies at Eastern ... read more about When the Ebola outbreak limited travel, this environmental sustainability major made new internship plans
Does caffeine provide a benefit to athletes? This deceptively simple question guided Hannah Daley’s research this summer. Daley, who is planning a career in environmental chemistry, is a junior double ... read more about Junior Hannah Daley preps for grad school with NSF- sponsored summer lab research on caffeine and athletes
Eastern Mennonite University’s home away from home in Washington D.C. — the Washington Community Scholars’ Center (WCSC) — is just that to three diverse groups of students this semester. Living ... read more about Scholars in Washington D.C. this fall semester land prestigious internships
Eastern Mennonite University senior Victoria Gunawan, a native of Indonesia, spent her summer among Peruvians on the National Mall in Washington D.C. As a media intern at the Smithsonian Folklife ... read more about Smithsonian Folklife Festival media internship brings Indonesian student to the Mall to help celebrate Peru