i CONTENTS 1 ABOUT THE REFLECTION ESSAYS Butzin Internship Fund 19 Spending a Summer in Gratitude for Service Dogs 12 Legal Internship 2 A LOOK AT OUR INTERNSHIP FUNDS Sophia Myers ’21 Doing Investigative Work Nick Pomper ’21 20 A Summer of Archival Work 7 REFLECTION ESSAYS in Northfield and Rice County (listed alphabetically by fund, then student) Center for Community and Hannah Zhukovsky ’21 Civic Engagement (CCCE) Abeona Endowed Fund Fellowships Chang-Lan Endowed Fund for International Internships 13 An Internship at the YMCA 21 Researching Protein Engineering 8 Learning about the Film Industries Reveals the Importance in a Lab and Overcoming of France and the United States of Social Connections Research Challenges Alison Hong ’22 Carly Bell ’21 Yiqiu Zhang ’22 9 Autism Research 14 Understanding Disparate in a Virtual Internship Food Access in Rice County Sara Liu ’22 Emily Hall ’21 PICTURED ON COVER American Studies Grant 16 Serving Up much more than Top row: AARON FORMAN ’21, Food in a Community Food Shelf HODAN MOHAMED ’22, 10 Seeing Behind the Curtain MAYA ROGERS ’22, Jack Johnson ’21 of a Political Campaign Office ASTRID PETROPOULOS ’23 Rebecca McCartney ’21 17 The Kaleidoscopic of Richness and Second row: KRISTIN MIYAGI ’22, Diversity of Life in Rice County NARIAH SIMS ’21, MADI SMITH ’22, 11 Supporting Tribal Alexander Kucich ’21 MAX VALE ’22 Sovereignty and Boosting Indigenous Rights 18 Interning at a Food Shelf, Third row: SUAD MOHAMED ’23, TREVOR HUGHES ’21, Thomas White ’22 and Confirming an Interest ANWESHA MUKHERJI ’23, in Social Work BENJAMIN WILLMORE ’22 Izzy Link ’21 ii CONTENTS Continued Class of 1963 50th Reunion Class of 1964 41 Making Meaning Out of a Virtual Fund for Internships Endowed Internship Fund Biochemistry Internship Erin Jenson ’21 22 Focusing on Renewables 30 Focusing on Social Media and the Energy Market and Learning about Concussions 42 Researching the Earth’s in Mongolia and Beyond and Careers Atmosphere with Bat-Orgil Batjargal ’21 Srishti Seth ’23 the Scientific Method An Kitamura ’21 24 Learning to Manage a Virtual David T.C. Jones ’74 Internship Team Focused 44 Interning to Better Understand Endowed Internship Fund on Concussion Awareness Infectious Disease Eloïse Cowan ’22 31 Exploring How to Build Stephen Lavey ’22 and Sustain Peace in Syria 25 Applying Mathematical Modeling 45 Gaining an Appreciation Miles Allen ’21 to Decision-Making in Psychology for Interdisciplinary Research Adam Huang ’21 32 Researching at the Nexus in Neurolinguistics of Math and Computer Science ZhaoBin Li ’21 26 Learning about Software Will Fletcher ’21 Engineering in a Retail 46 Gaining an Appreciation Environment for the Twists and Turns Eugster Endowed Rie Kurita ’21 of Geoscience Research Research & Internship Tim Mikulski ’21 28 Spending a Summer (& IDSC 280 Participant) in Marketing and Communication 47 Researching Inflammatory 33 Exploring Public Health Research Finn Lorenz ’21 Cell Death During Maddie Bryant ’21 a Summer Internship 29 Exploring Cognitive Neuroscience 39 Learning about Children’s Suad Mohamed ’23 through Research Processing through Developmental 49 Studying Animal Disease Astrid Petropoulos ’23 Psychology Research and Meeting Cabbage Madison Collins ’22 White Butterflies Rose Newell ’21 iii CONTENTS Continued 50 Researching the Composition of 57 Learning about HIV/AIDS 65 A Congressional Campaign Diatoms, a Marine Microorganism in Marginalized Communities in Iowa Confirms an Interest Jamie North ’21 in Argentina in Public Service Edgar Felix ’21 Samuel Kwait-Spitzer ’21 52 A Summer of Developing Lab Skills in Biomedical Research 58 Supporting Resilient Arts 66 Gaining Confidence Supporting Alex Poeschla ’21 Enterprises in Malaysia a Congressional Campaign Win Wen Ooi ’22 Kristie Lee ’21 Helen M. Golde ’85 60 Applying Liberal Arts Thinking 68 Contributing to Northfield’s Endowed Internship Fund to Understanding International Public Communication Efforts 53 Tracking Coal Combustion Non-Profit Work Christopher McTaggart ’22 Residue with the Environmental Abi Sutcliffe ’22 69 Producing Maps and Protection Agency (EPA) Learning about Bureaucracy Lorraine Byrne ’21 Jean Phillips Memorial at the Environmental Internship Fund Protection Agency (EPA) IDSC 280 61 Developing a Passion Allison Palmbach ’21 Learning from Internships for Environmental Justice 70 Supporting Local Organizations 54 Networking as a Strategy with the Environmental to Alleviate Day-to-Day Challenges to Secure an Internship Protection Agency (EPA) of Families in the Film Industry Karen Chen ’21 Asha Penprase ’21 Grace Hague ’23 63 Interning on the Hill 71 How an Internship Reveals Interest in Returning Initiative for Service with Laura Baker Services Sarah Grier ’21 Internships in International Confirmed Interest, Built Skills, Development 64 Comparative Research on French and Supported Fundraising and U.S. Immigration Systems Alexis Shuck ’21 55 Discovering a Passion for Immigration Policy, Anna Gwin ’21 Cognitive Science, and Policy While Virtually Interning in Paris Isabella Chaffee ’22 iv CONTENTS Continued 72 Supporting Participatory Littell Internship Fund 85 Mycology and Coding: Democracy, One Phone Call a Worthwhile Summer Interdisciplinary Research at a Time 77 of Biology Research on Atmospheric Science Maya Stovall ’23 Ben Schnieders ’21 Henry Bowman ’23 73 Learning about Alternatives 79 Helping Northfield Residents Marrella Endowed to Prison through a Virtual Learn to Make More Sustainable Internship in Paris Internship Fund Energy Decisions Samantha Vera Leyva ’22 86 Focusing on the Achievement Andrew Farias ’21 Gap Among Homeless John ’55 and Bonnie Raines 80 Making an Impact and Highly-Mobile Youth Endowed Internship Fund in Support of the Cannon River Nell Schafer ’23 Watershed Partnership 74 Fighting for a More Just Society, One Day at a Time Maya Hilty ’21 Multicultural Alumni Network Fellows Program Maya Rogers ’22 81 Interning in Ecology, at the Intersection of Science 88 Researching Decision-Making 75 Community Organizing Builds and the Humanities Processes and Finding Confidence Essential Skills for any Career Sydney Marie Jones ’22 through Critical Thinking Chloe Truebenbach ’22 Yiqing Yu ’21 83 A Biogeochemistry Internship Taught Basic Skills and Insights Kathryn Christen Ramstad ’79 Neil Isaacs and about Work Environments Endowed Internship Fund Frank Wright ’50 Fellowship Oren Lieber-Kotz ’21 76 How an Internship in the Food in Investigative Journalism Industry Helped to Bring 84 Contributing to Northfield’s 89 Writing for an International Economic Principles to Life Zero Waste Plan for Development Organization Beck Page ’23 a More Sustainable Future in Japan Anna Roberts ’21 Hana Mensendiek ’22 v CONTENTS Continued Project ’60 Endowed Rob White ’85 104 Using a Summer Internship Internship Fund Endowed Internship Fund to Confirm an Interest in Environmental Mediation 91 Supporting At-Risk Youth 97 An Internship in Public Alexandra Brown-Law ’21 in a Safe Space During COVID Health Campaigns Erin Dyke ’21 to Promote Safer Sex 106 A Summer Spent Immersed Emma Dubinsky ’21 in Legal Advocacy 92 Creating Connections with Middle Leander Cohen ’22 Schoolers over Pokemon 99 Immersed in Policy and Research Jeremy Soehnlin ’21 to Improve Cooperation 107 Sustainable Tourism in the Middle East with Native Tours 93 Closing the Achievement Gaps Ishmael Maxwell ’21 Babi de Melo Lemos ’21 in Schools, One Student at a Time Maxwell Vale ’22 100 Diving into Workplace 109 Life Lessons from a Virtual Discrimation on the Journey Marketing Internship Richard T. Newman Family to a Legal Career Diaraye Diallo ’23 Endowed Fund for Language Rayna Phelps ’21 110 Creativity and Flexibility Study Internships 101 Growing Immensely While on Display in an Internship at 94 A Summer at the German Organizing a March Celebrating an Innovation Platform Developer Stock Exchange Martin Luther King Jr.’s Legacy Sophia Franco ’21 Marcel Morris ’23 Marlena Resnick ’21 112 Learning about Tech 96 A Virtual Immersion into and Chatbots Robert E. Will ’50 Endowed a Parisian Marketing Firm Internship Fund in Social Maanya Goenka ’22 Boosted Communication Skills Entrepreneurship 113 Discovering a Passion for Business Aubrey Thurm ’22 and Consulting in a Startup 103 Exploring Social Work in a Virtual Internship in Cape Town Trung Huynh ’21 Katherine Babbit ’21 vi CONTENTS Continued 114 Using a Summer Internship Rosenheim Environmental 127 A Summer Spent in the Music Industry Internship Fund Rehabilitating Wildlife to Tune into Career Priorities Anwesha Mukherji ’23 121 Community Building through Felipe Jimenez ’21 Environmental Sustainability 129 Learning about Monarch 115 Creating More Efficient in Northfield Butterflies to Educate the Public Working Practices in a Startup Izzy Quattrucci ’22 Grace Pearson ’21 Madeline Kyhl ’21 130 Researching Remote Sam ’75 and Meg Woodside 116 Using a Summer Internship Servers During a Pandemic Endowed Fund in International Development for Career Exploration Logan Peters ’21 to Focus on the Pursuit of Mathematics 122 Analyzing Social Media 131 Building Essential Teaching Skills at Northfield’s KidVentures Abigail Loe ’21 Threads to Gain Insights about Domestic Abuse Summer Program 117 Confirming an Interest Madison Smith ’22 Dani Rader ’21 in Working in the Social Sector in Latin America 124 Developing a Better 132 Coming Full Circle from Being a Research Participant to Santiago Rico ’21 Understanding of Local History and Discovering a Researcher of Heart Conditions 119 Promoting Therapy and Service a