SMU Adventurers share experiences from around the world
Students and faculty are sharing news of their research, travels and internships on the SMU Adventures blog.
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Students and faculty are sharing news of their research, travels and internships around the world this summer on the SMU Adventures blog.
This summer’s Adventurers include:
Archaeologists in Italy, including students and scholars from SMU, who will excavate the Etruscan sanctuary and settlement of Poggio Colla in Tuscany. | ||
Astrud, a junior biology major, who is participating in her second summer internship with the Joint Admission Medical Program at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. | ||
Jordan, a junior music, anthropology and history major, who is participating in SMU-in-Germany and the Global Leadership Program in Prague and Berlin. | ||
Lydia, a sophomore Spanish and theater studies major, who is studying at SMU-in-Taos before visiting the Democratic Republic of the Congo. | ||
Melanie, a senior finance and biology major, who has an internship with the Parkland Collegiate Fellows Program at Dallas’ Parkland Hospital. | ||
Nicola, a senior majoring in political science, is spending the summer studying archaeology at SMU-in-Taos. | ||
Nureen, a sophomore advertising and sociology major, who received a Maguire and Irby Family Public Service Internship to work in Atlanta with the American Civil Liberties Union. | ||
Patrick, a senior religious studies and psychology major, who has been awarded a Richter Research Fellowship to examine newly emerging churches in the United Kingdom. | ||
Rachel, a junior majoring in journalism, is spending the June 2009 term in SMU-in-Taos and then she's off to SMU-in-London, where she’ll study journalism from the British point of view, as well as the history of postwar European cinema. | ||
Rebecca, a triple major in art history, Spanish and French, who received a Richter Research Fellowship to study the relationship between nationalized Catholicism, the Franco regime and parish church architecture in the Catalunya region of northeastern Spain. | ||
Sommer (right) and Lindsey (left) are traveling to Romania to report on the status of orphanages 20 years after the fall of communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. |
Learn more about SMU Adventures, including how to participate, at smu.edu/adventures.
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