Summer Experiences

November 2018

Summer Internship at the Georgia Aquarium

Sophomore EC Scholar and biology/chemistry double major Peyton Jackson spent last summer interning at the Georgia Aquarium in their Fish and Invertebrates Department, specifically working with the Galleries Team. The experience […]

11.6.2018

September 2018

An EC Scholar Summer

What did you do this summer? Did it involve public service, biomedical research or traveling the globe? Take a look at some of the impressive internships and amazing opportunities our […]

9.4.2018

June 2018

EC Scholar checks in from Greece

Rising junior EC Scholar Ananya Koripella (B.S. Public Health Studies, B.A Hispanic Studies) checks from her summer travel after completing a medical fellowship in Greece: “As you know, I stayed in […]

6.13.2018

July 2017

Ship to Stage: EC Scholar Helps Bring ‘Mister Roberts’ Alive on Battleship North Carolina

7.19.2017

June 2017

Touching Base from the Little League World Series

I’ve been in Williamsport, PA since Memorial Day and I just finished the third week of my internship at Little League. I have met so many great people up here […]

6.22.2017

August 2016

Learning medicine in Nicaragua

By Conor Pumphrey, sophomore EC Scholar and Early Assurance in Medicine The summer following my junior year of high school, I had the opportunity to go on a mission trip […]

8.29.2016

Japan: An ‘inexhaustible variety of life’

By Josh Butler, a junior EC Scholar Studying abroad in Tokyo, Japan, and the surrounding areas was an experience second to none that involved cultural immersion coupled with intellectual stimulation. […]

8.4.2016

July 2016

Traveling to the Land of the Rising Sun

By Patrick Twisdale, senior EC Scholar The Land of the Rising Sun, Japan, or as the Japanese call it Nihon (日本国), was the country that I went to for a […]

7.27.2016

Reflections on Studying Abroad in London

By Meghan Lower, sophomore EC Scholar “No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.” […]

7.21.2016

‘Imagine This:’ Experiential Learning in Nepal

By Nadiya Yerich, junior EC Scholar Imagine this: you’re in the ER of one of the best hospitals in Nepal, watching physicians attempt to care for a woman who was […]

7.15.2016