Summer, Shared As students departed campus this spring, we asked them to keep us in the loop on all their summer adventures via social media. Dozens obliged our request, and we were consistently amazed by the stories shared through our Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter accounts. Explore a few of our favorites here, then check out an entire summer’s worth of awesome at rollins.edu/summer-stories. Parker Magness ’18 wrapped up a sixmonth internship at GE Healthcare in Munich while studying at Reutlingen University for Rollins’ international business dual-degree program.
Computer science major Michael Gutensohn ’18 created a simulated version of the Deep Space Network’s operations software at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
Ellie Rushing ’19, an environmental studies and communication studies major, reshaped the community garden she founded at a Rwandan school last summer so that it will now feed 20 of the school’s most vulnerable students.
Kate Knight ’19 was one of 13 students who partnered with political science professor Dan Chong to help build a kitchen and bathroom for Better Lives development coordinator Sam Barns ’11 ’12MBA’s eco-lodge project in Tanzania. During their downtime, several of the students climbed Mount Kilimanjaro.
Krescent Williams ’18, a chemistry and music major, performed geochemical monitoring on Teide, an active volcano in the Canary Islands. Alexandria DeLucia ’18, a computer science and math major, researched machine learning and anomaly detection in supercomputers at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. Isabella Braga ’20, a philosophy and biology major, interned with U.S. Congresswoman and former Rollins professor Stephanie Murphy on Capitol Hill.
during Artists Striving to End Poverty’s Artist as Citizen Conference at Juilliard in New York City.
Mark Gagnon ’19, an economics and
philosophy major, was social media and production intern at iconic Hollywood comedy club, The Laugh Factory. Business major Catherine Linder ’20 picked up some new strategies for her nonprofit after-school arts program
Social entrepreneurship and business major Carlye Goldman ’19 studied public health in Johannesburg, South Africa. The global health minor’s studies centered on South Africa’s health-care system, community development, and malnutrition in rural areas of the country.
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