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IN THIS ISSUE THE INTERNSHIP MUST GO ON BY KELLEY WALLACE PAGE 1
When the nation – and much of the world – entered lockdown so abruptly in mid-March, the ripple effects were felt far and wide. Beyond the fear of the immediate public health crisis, there emerged a secondary level of disappointment and disruption, as events and experiences of all kinds were put on hold or canceled outright. For many ambitious college students, the COVID-19 curveball resulted in the cancellation of highly anticipated travels abroad and exciting internship opportunities. But in some cases, there also emerged secondary opportunities – a way of turning life’s lemons into lemonade. For Washington College senior Peyton Stewart, it meant a late-breaking offer to work on the ATLAS experiment at CERN as a summer intern, all from the comfort and safety of home. Dr. Suyog Shrestha, a CERN researcher who has close ties with Washington College, reached out about the highly prestigious and selective program. Every summer, they choose about 200 undergraduate students from around the world. “We immediately thought of Peyton because of how well this research opportunity aligned with his interests; in fact he was unanimously recommended by the Physics Department,” said Karl Kehm, Associate Professor of Physics and Environmental Science and Chair of the Physics Dept. “He’s a great student and because of COVID, his search for other summer positions had not been fruitful, so it all lined up favorably in the end.” “As soon as that email came, I was all over it,” said Peyton, a Hackettstown, NJ native who plans to attend graduate school after earning his degree from Washington College next semester. “It was so great that I could do this remotely.” “This internship is a real bright spot in the midst of this pandemic,” said Dr. Shrestha. “This is important work that must go on, and because the project is computational in nature, we found a way.” So what does a summer internship look like when the experiment you work on is 4,000 miles away? For Stewart, it meant working fairly typical Monday-Friday work days, working around the time difference (9:00 AM in Chestertown is 3 PM at CERN), and weekly team meetings with participants from all around the globe. It required him to work independently, stay focused, hit deadlines and overall be accountable to a team that was
expecting him to provide results. He chatted with Shrestha on Skype, met with the team in Zoom and stayed in touch via detailed emails. In many ways, his summer internship mirrored the experience of the millions of working professionals who were abruptly sent home in mid-March to operate out of home offices. As exciting as it was to land the internship, the focus of the work and the long-term impact it will have was the real win for Peyton, as he has contributed to what is believed will become one of the historical measurements in the world of physics. In general terms, what matter is made up of and how these constituents of matter (elementary particles) interact with each other is described by an established theoretical framework, known as the Standard Model (SM) of Particle Physics. The SM also make predictions about the ‘behaviors’ or properties of these elementary particles. The focus of this project – which has an entire team dedicated to it and will take years to complete – is the testing of one part the SM theory that has not yet been tested: a property of the Higgs boson, a unique and crucial particle discovered in 2012 at CERN, which resulted in Nobel prize in physics for theorists. “Several phenomena observed in nature are not explained by the SM,” explained Shrestha. “And in the SM itself, one of the major properties of the Higgs boson – self-coupling -- is yet to be measured.” And that is exactly what Peyton spent the summer working on. Day to day, his work included analyzing simulated data to understand and reduce uncertainties on the Higgs boson self-coupling measurement. He would then generate plots of several different simulation programs, compare them with the standard simulation, and measure the differences. Twice over the summer, he presented his finding in ATLAS collaboration meetings dedicated to Higgs self-coupling measurement. “Working with and learning from researchers around the world made for a really cool summer,” enthused Peyton. “I enjoyed learning the process and Dr. Shrestha made the whole experience great.” “Peyton’s work on modeling the top-quark background gave us insight into how various simulation programs model this major background, and how variations across simulation programs leads to larger uncertainties on the background,” explained Shrestha. Because the SM explains many things, but not everything, the
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CLOSING THE DEAL BY DAVID GANSELL PAGE 2
TRAILBLAZING FOR SOLACE BY ABBEY WARK '18 PAGE 2
NO QUESTION ABOUT IT BY DAVID GANSELL PAGE 3
GIS INTERSHIP SETS SOPHOMORE ON CAREER PATH BY DAVID GANSELL PAGE 3
EDUCATING FOR SUSTAINABILITY THROUGH GREEN CHEMISTRY BY DAVID GANSELL PAGE 3
BELOVED PROFESSOR PUBLISHES GUIDE TO THE LIBERAL ARTS BY ABBEY WARK '18 PAGE 4
A LETTER FROM THE EDITOR BY ABBEY WARK '18 PAGE 4
question that is always being asked is, are the properties of the elementary particles the same as what has been predicted? “Weaknesses on the existing theories provide opportunities,” said Shrestha. “They can open up a whole new landscape and we as researchers are always trying to understand the unknown.” And finding that this property doesn’t follow the expected pattern is a key discovery that can change how the subject is covered in textbooks. “Hopefully Peyton’s contribution will one day be part of a historic discovery,” said Shrestha. The work is in fact due to be published in 2021, meaning Peyton, as an undergrad, will be noted as having participated in an international collaboration. Once the summer program ended, Peyton was able to continue his work through a 2-credit independent study, remotely supervised by Shrestha. Over the fall semester he has been exploring more in-depth methods to reduce the uncertainties that they have observed in various simulation programs.
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THE INTERNSHIP MUST GO ON
PERSISTENCE AND POSITIVE ATTITUDE NET SOPHOMORE A MEANINGFUL SUMMER INTERNSHIP
PERSISTENCE AND POSITIVE ATTITUDE NET SOPHOMORE A MEANINGFUL INTERNSHIP Her primary responsibilities were working on several of the MD Daily Record’s signature events and managing their social media content. One such event was the Top 100 Women, another was Maryland’s Most Admired CEO’s. Both had the challenge of the need to transition from a traditional in-person format to the virtual space, work that Tamara helped to facilitate. Throughout her internship, Tamara worked on communicating with event honorees, selecting giveaways for the award winner packages, and managing the social media content calendar. She was also able to attend some of the Zoom events that they hosted. “I met a lot of amazing people and learned so much about the great businesses that are located here in Maryland,” she enthused.
TRAILBLAZING FOR SOLACE
As for how exactly she landed an internship with an organization that wasn’t exactly hiring?
by Abbey Wark '18
“I just went for it!” she said. “I already had the relationship established thanks to the Career Center externship, and they didn’t say yes at first…but they didn’t say no either.” Seeing an opening, Tamara persisted with her follow ups and ended up working directly with the management team to map the experience out and figure out how to make it happen virtually.
by Kelley Wallace Sophomore student Tamara Dyer wasn’t going to let a pandemic stop her from a meaningful summer internship. Through persistence and a professional approach, the Baltimore native parlayed a one-day externship with the Maryland Daily Record into a successful summer experience, even though the publication wasn’t planning on hiring interns at all. Tamara, who is pursuing a major in business with a dual minor in marketing and communications studies, was brought on as the Events and Marketing Intern for the well-known publication. Due to COVID she worked remotely, putting in about 15-20 hours per week over a three-month period in the summer of 2020.
CLOSING THE DEAL by David Gansell Ethan O’Malley ‘21 had his sights set on Brown Advisory even before stepping foot on the Washington College campus. Four years later, the economics and history major already has secured a full-time job at the investment management firm’s Baltimore location after he graduates in May. The Brown Advisory Student-Managed Investment Fund Program at Washington College offers an opportunity for students, beginning their sophomore year, to develop and utilize their investment skills by providing real-life investing experience. “It was definitely an intriguing offer to me when I was a prospective student,” says Ethan. “The program was unique in that it offered an opportunity for students to manage money and was a big reason why I was interested in coming to Chestertown.” After enrolling at the College, Ethan’s big break came in March of 2019 when Brown Advisory President and CEO Mike Hankin met with the Washington College group for a two-hour lunch on campus. “We really hit it off, had a lot of one-on-one dialogue, and he suggested that I come visit him at the firm’s office,” Ethan explains. Bolstered by his relationship with Hankin, Ethan was one of just 14 students selected from a pool of over 800 applicants for a prestigious internship at the company
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Tamara learned many things over the summer, chief among them the importance of teamwork and collaboration. Her experience managing social media also taught her that “social media, when it’s done right, is really strategic. There’s an overall logic that needs to be applied to your calendar,” she said. On the flip side, she feels that her academic coursework really helped her to articulate the Daily Record’s values through social media. But she also credits this experience with basic business skills, such as deepening her knowledge of Microsoft Office products – thanks to her time spent making “pretty templates” and spreadsheets – and teaching her how to use email professionally. Building a comfort level in this business setting is all part of the plan for Tamara, whose ultimate career goal is running her own large marketing agency. Overall, Tamara said, “this experience showed me that I can do more, and why I can be confident in myself.”
this past summer. Originally slated to work out of the Manhattan office in New York City, the COVID-19 pandemic forced Ethan to perform his duties from his home in Arnold, Maryland. “Although living in New York would have been exciting, working remotely definitely allowed for some perks,” he says. “We were more connected because you can work on projects with people who wouldn’t necessarily be in your own office.” During his six-week role, Ethan was asked to serve on an equity research project with a senior analyst involving the dining services sector and also studied the impact of the pandemic on college re-openings and commercial real-estate. “The biggest take-away that I got from the experience is the importance of being able to communicate your ideas clearly,” he declares. “You can be the smartest person in any room but if you can’t convey what you are trying to say then you will have a difficult time at being successful in anything that you do. That especially holds true in the financial services industry where there is no business without clients; they have to have confidence in you.” Ethan, who is the class of 2021 Student Government Association Treasurer and is a member of the history honors society, is hoping to carve out his own niche at Brown Advisory. His long-term goal is to work in venture capital and fortify an impact investing role. The owner of his very own gym equipment business, Ethan lists Public Finance, International Trade and International Finance as his favorite classes during his Washington College tenure. “I really love the deal-making process,” Ethan concludes. “It’s fun closing deals and doing business.”
Adventure and Rebecca Kanaskie ’20 go hand-in-hand for those who know the outdoor-loving, open-water swimming and long-distance running advocate. Thus, it only makes sense that the English major found a way to turn what can be a very sedentary thesis into a great big adventure for her Senior Capstone Experience, “‘True solace is finding none:’ Grief Through the Seasons of Gretel Ehrlich’s The Solace of Open Spaces”. With help from the Douglass Cater Society for Junior Fellows, Rebecca travelled the Big Horn Region of Wyoming while studying the literature of Gretel Ehrlick. “Greta Ehrlick writes about landscapes and finding solace in landscapes, so the grant I got was to explore these places that she writes about and I wrote that experience into my thesis in a really cool psychological way,” Rebecca explains. Dr. Katie Charles, Rebecca’s thesis advisor, heavily supported Rebecca throughout her SCE process and helped Rebecca plan her travels in a similar style to the English department’s Kiplin Hall Program, a 3 week summer course where students study the literature and landscapes of England, Ireland and Scotland. Wyoming wasn’t new territory for the English major, who previously interned with a newspaper business and museum in the area, however she had yet to travel the south east area of the state. “I had never travelled to the Blue Horn Region, so it was interesting to have Greta Ehrlick as a modern guide. She writes from this experience of lost loved ones and being in real trauma and she moves out west to deal with that. I completed her journey in 2020, so it was really interesting to me to see what my feelings were as I went to these spaces and tried to heal from what we were all dealing with regarding the pandemic and what we are still all feeling.” As for her Senior Capstone Experience itself, this journey brought a new perspective to Rebecca’s relationship regarding the written word. “I don’t believe that you can fully understand a placenarrative until you go there yourself and have your own experiences,” she remarked. “I never thought that writing—especially in an essay or a thesis—your personal experiences could factor that much into the piece. I included my own photos and research from my trip into my thesis and found that it becomes more than just you and the text. Washington College really helped me get there; all the faculty were behind me, supporting me, and telling me that this was something no one else had done before. My biggest takeaway is that I am capable of so much more than I ever thought with an English degree.”
NO QUESTION ABOUT IT
by David Gansell Last May, Kat DeSantis ’22 was all set to work at a summer camp in North Carolina until the COVID-19 pandemic forced her to abruptly switch gears. In search of another option, Kat reached out to a few of her Washington College professors and gained a lead on an internship at The Hill, a top American political website in Washington D.C. that focuses on politics, policy, business and international relations. “It was an opening that I didn’t want to pass on,” Kat states. “The Hill is one of the main news sources in the world and I was excited to have the opportunity as a political science major.” Kat, who is also majoring in philosophy, was selected for a role with the events team last June and worked through August, focusing almost entirely on the coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. Her main role was to scan interviews that were recorded by a robot, clearing up any discrepancies in the transcripts before they were posted online. Kat also conducted research and formulated her own questions for interviews with key members of the Coronavirus Task Force and other leaders. She also helped promote special events to groups across the country.
GIS INTERNSHIP SETS SOPHOMORE ON CAREER PATH by Kelley Wallace
now pursuing a minor in Information Systems. Ultimately, she would like to become a GIS analyst.
When sophomore Jazmin Gascot applied for an internship with the Washington College GIS (Geographic Information Systems) Program, she thought she was just getting a job. What she actually got was an introduction to a world of opportunity that set her on a new career path.
The experience really drew her in once she started to get directly involved with some of the projects that GIS manages. She particularly liked the design aspects, and the fact that she gets to use her creativity to present the data. Soon she was branding her own layouts, and creating unique looks for each year of a project to differentiate them.
“I really didn’t have a specific interest in the GIS Program,” said Gascot, “but a family friend encouraged me to try it out.” Gascot took that advice and applied. She was accepted during her freshman year and said she felt welcomed from the start. “All of the staff and other interns were so welcoming,” she said. “I admit I was nervous, but they put me at ease right away.” Even better, she said, “the experience set me where I want to be.” Initially Gascot intended to major in business, but even early on, she knew that it wasn’t really the right match for her. It’s thanks to her experience with GIS that she is
EDUCATING FOR SUSTAINABILITY THROUGH GREEN CHEMISTRY by Marie Thomas Last February, Washington College senior Ellie Byers interned with Sarah Lipchock at the Gunston School in Centreville and worked with 10thgrade students to test a lab she designed for her senior capstone experience — a green chemistry experiment involving blue cheese slurries and biomimicry. According to a news release from Gunston, Ellie recently got in touch with Lipchock to send an article and lab based on her SCE that was published in the most recent issue of Chemistry Solutions, a peer-reviewed periodical from the American Association of Chemistry Teachers.
“The coolest thing that happened was that one of my questions was used in an interview with Dr. Anthony Fauci,” she reveals. Kat developed a fascination with political science during her high school career when she was a member of a group that lobbied Congress on a social justice objective. Extremely active on campus, Kat serves as parliamentarian in the Student Government Association, is a member of the Douglass Cater Society of Junior Fellows, and is a high school program leader and executive assistant at Horizons of Kent and Queen Anne’s County. Her work this past summer at The Hill, as well as her time at Washington College, has solidified her interest in the area, all in the hopes of becoming a lawyer so she can make a positive impact on others and change people’s lives.
“It was such a meaningful experience because I was able to contribute to crucial news information during such a crazy time in our history,” she explains regarding her internship. “I learned critical research skills, how to be really concise and ask the right questions. ”
GIS loaned her a PC and two monitors to use at home. She intends to continue on with GIS through graduation. Gascot would recommend that any student with an interest in technology or problem-solving through data analysis try GIS. “I find it really fulfilling that there’s a real-world impact to this,” she said. “We’re here to make things better.” Interns need not have experience, a training program is part of the program. “It’s just so cool that I had no idea what this was, and now I’m just so in love with it,” said Gascot. “It has changed my life.” For more information about the GIS Program, visit https:/www.washcoll.edu/learn-by-doing/gis/index.php.
Gascot has been working under the Highway Safety Grant, which maps data from accidents that then can be used to identify trends and better allocate resources. “This work changes lives,” she said. “I like knowing that if I can help find major hot spots and send these analyses, then I am helping to improve safety within the community.” She has worked her way up the GIS ranks to the level of Senior Apprentice, and typically works about 16 hours per week. She was even able to continue the internship fully remotely when campus closed due to COVID, because
The article was “A Green Chemistry Guided-Inquiry Lab: Designing Biomimetic Songbird Preen Oil from Waste Cooking Oil” by Eleanor (Ellie) Byers and Washington College Professor Anne Marteel-Parrish. “I want to thank you again for all your help as I was interning at Gunston and your openness to trialing my SCE in the spring. I am halfway through my student teaching and master’s program and I often draw from my experiences at Gunston,” said Ellie, who graduated WC in the spring of 2020 with a Bachelor of Science in chemistry and is currently working toward a Master’s of Education in curriculum and instruction from the University of Maryland. “Ellie’s SCE project aligned perfectly with some of Gunston’s key initiatives with regard to educating for sustainability and Mind Brain Education,” Lipchock said in the release. “As part of her internship, Byers read 'Neuroteach: Brain Science and The Future of Education' and I was really impressed with her ability to internalize MBE strategies and help guide students as learners in my classroom. She connected with students of all levels and they really enjoyed learning about biomimicry in a hands-on way.” Green chemistry asks not just “What can I do with chemistry?” but also “How can I do it in the most sustainable way?” “Green chemistry is a relatively new field in chemistry and is not covered by textbooks or as part of the national high school standards,” Lipchock said, “but it serves as a great real-world application for students and it dovetails nicely with Gunston’s goals for educating for sustainability.” According to the article’s summary, “in this guided-inquiry lab, students will design and test a procedure reacting
waste cooking oil in a blue cheese slurry to create a substance that mimics songbird preen oil, which is both antibacterial and hydrophobic. Students will convert the fatty acids in waste oil to methyl ketones, thought to be the principal antibacterial component of preen oil, using the P. roqueforti mold found in blue cheese. Students will expand their knowledge of biomimicry, inherent properties of preen oil, and chemical synthesis by applying the principles of green chemistry. They will also assess their own process through higherorder problem solving and building on their scientific research skills.” “Adding this activity allowed students to see the green chemistry principles in action and provided a tangible application for the concepts we had learned. Having them design their own experiment to use repurposed cooking oil from the Washington College dining hall made those sustainability principles stick in a way that reading an article or watching a video cannot. Guided-inquiry and real world applications are great examples of MBE strategies that help students be more effective learners,” Lipchock said.
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Left: Students and alums welcoming Dr. Gillin to his retirement celebration.
BELOVED PROFESSOR PUBLISHES GUIDE TO THE LIBERAL ARTS
Right: Dr. Gillin with the Kiplin Hall Class of 2015 at Michael's Sheepfold in Grasmere, England.
by Abbey Wark '18
loosely basing it off of the Rydal Mount Summer School she and Richard founded as part of their graduate studies in 1970.
Up until 2015 Richard Gillin, Ernest A. Howard Professor of English Literature, had only taken one sabbatical. After much coaxing from his late spouse, Barbra Gillin convinced him to take a sabbatical and write a book about their years with the Kiplin Hall summer program. Fast forward to 2021 and Richard is now the published author of "A Guide to Hiking the Liberal Arts: The Washington College Kiplin Hall Program".
Little did they know at the time, they were building a program that would change students’ lives for years to come. The Kiplin Hall Program attracts students from all grades and majors, eager for the opportunity to study abroad without missing a semester away from WC and without breaking the bank.
The Kiplin Hall Program is a three week long English course that allows students to travel to England, Ireland and Scotland. The course itself is titled "Literature and Landscape" requiring the class to read literature from the Romantics and hike to the locations that they were inspired by and wrote about. “The liberal arts are extremely important and poetry is square in the middle of that. Many people look at it as a thrill, it is the thing that humanizes us and makes us think,” Richard shared. “Coming to grips with William Wordsworth is something you have to think about and work at it. In `I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud’ it is the way the poem induces feeling and how important nature is,” he goes on. “The importance of the natural world resonates with us and our need to be outside. A Guide to Hiking the Liberal Arts deals with the natural world and a historical period that is different than ours, but nevertheless instructive of who we are. The first Kiplin Hall trip took place in 1998, after Board of Visitors and Governors member Jay Griswold discovered Kiplin Hall while at a wedding; he knew that Washington College had to get involved with the first Lord Baltimore’s home—he just wasn’t sure how. After the Gillins were approached with the topic, Barbra had the entire trip planned in about three hours,
Attending the Kiplin Hall Program under the Gillins’ reign meant entering their family. Information sessions were held at the Gillin residence where you were welcomed with hugs and served delicious homemade iced tea. While leaving meetings Barbra would remind you to drive with your hazards on in the dark to warn the deer that you were approaching, as they live in a woodsy area of Chestertown, and she worried about each student’s safety as if they were her own. While on the trip, not only were Richard and Barbra leading the way, but also accompanied by their children, grandchildren, and one year even their niece joined the fun. Hiking through what students have referred to as “fairytale” landscapes and discussing literature and life, creates unparalleled bonds that last long after each student’s trip. “I was gratified by the overwhelming response from past alumni who wanted to contribute to the book. Many people felt Kiplin Hall has changed their lives in positive ways,” remarked Richard. “My intention [with A Guide to Hiking the Liberal Arts] was to praise Washington College for the opportunity to develop the trip and to indicate the way liberal arts works. [While it is necessary now,] Liberal arts can’t be in a Zoom meeting, it has to be through experiences.” Richard explained. “Liberal arts has resonance right now because the country needs people who can think outside the box and be compassionate.”
Washington College is excited to offer a wide range of academic opportunities for undergraduate students, as well as high school students, working adults, and more. We will be offering in person and remote classes, to allow learners to access our exceptional programming from anywhere across the globe (although we are partial to the Chester River in the summer). Learn more here: washcoll.edu/summer-session
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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR Dear Reader, I feel it’s safe to say that we are all ready to get outside. I for one, cannot wait to feel the warmth of the sun on my face and experience the world. While the majority of us have been on our couches binge watching the latest TV shows,
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some standout students have been making the most of their situations with hands-on opportunities in their field. Naturally, we wanted to share their stories with you. So, we built this edition of Goose Nation around those members of the Washington College community and their outstanding experiential learning opportunities. Warm wishes, Abbey Wark '18
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WASHINGTON COLLEGE ADMISSIONS NEWSLETTER volume v. number i, spring 2021 USPS 667260 | ISSN 2577-3658 EDITOR Abbey Wark '18 CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Kelley Wallace David Gansell Abbey Wark '18 Marie Thomas
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