Students who plan to complete an internship during the summer 2013, fall 2013, or spring 2014 semesters may qualify for funding of up to $3,000 to help alleviate costs associated with their experience.
Steve Yena ‘11 worked at Prairie Crossing Institute on a variety of projects: assisting beginning farmers assemble seed and wash areas, building plastic barriers and chicken coops, helping fix water lines, and conducting a survey of all the community gardens in the Lake County area.
As a restoration intern, I had the opportunity to contribute to the understanding of the health of our local ecosystems by doing water quality monitoring as well as butterfly monitoring.
Alyssa Wintermute ‘11 researched legislation in Canada (federal and provincial) for E.K. Gillin & Associates Inc. and performed Air Quality Testing and Waste Audits.
After working in a research lab at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science (RFUMS) for the past two years, senior Ashley Reich will have her name on a published paper in the Nucleic Acids Research journal this summer.
I spent two weeks of my summer working for a new, non-profit, environmental education organization based out of Casco Viejo, Panama. The purpose of my trip was to meet up with Chris Del Vecchio, a graduate from Brandeis University, and help her out with a program that she recently created.
During the summer I interned at the environmental consulting corporation ENVIRON in Sydney, Australia. While I was there, I researched air quality management best practices for coal mines and conducted a survey of air quality management practices across nine coal mine complexes from two continents.
International relations and economics major Fabricio Sordoni ‘11 recounts his service at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris during his recent semester abroad.
Several Lake Forest College students and alumni were among approximately 3,500 ecologists who participated in the Ecological Society of America meeting in Pittsburgh.
History and Secondary Education major, Daniel Rosenstein ‘12, will be working at the Chicago History Museum as an intern fall 2010.