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CEE,Internships NewsDecember 5, 2007
by Aaron Lee, CE/German/German Studies ‘09
Before this summer, I had figured that lab research would be very similar anywhere in the world. Like Gertrude Stein said, “a rose is a rose is a rose,” and although there may be some slight differences from lab to lab, I thought that in the end, a test tube is still a test tube. However, this summer allowed to me see that while some things will be the same, ...
September 1, 2007
Kirsten Shaw
In the midst of settling back into campus life and a new course schedule, it's already time to start thinking about next summer's internship or full-time job, says Kirsten Shaw, assistant director of Corporate and Industry Relations at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering. The good news is that there are plenty of resources available on campus to get undergraduates prepared.
The first stop should be an appointment with the Career Center, where students can get ...
May 24, 2006
Before enrolling at Duke as a freshman four years ago, Hunter Halten--a graduating senior in civil and environmental engineering--had never been outside of the country. But, after a semester spent studying in Spain and a summer spent working in London, the native of California’s wine country is setting out for a career in international development.
He is debating between entering the Peace Corps, ideally in a Latin American country, and jumping right into a job with ...
April 15, 2005
By Gabriel Chen, written in 2005
Exotic landscapes are not always distant and unapproachable. In 2002, just before the beginning of his sophomore year, Chris Einmo spent a summer in Montenegro, the heart of the Mediterranean, divided from Italy by the Adriatic Sea. Part of the former Yugoslavia, this republic is only an hour flight from Rome or Budapest, and one hour and a half from Zurich.
Einmo, a senior majoring in civil and environmental engineering, ...
March 15, 2004
By Gabriel Chen
Many psychologists agree that play is an essential ingredient in a child's growth and development – play stimulates the human spirit, encourages imagination, conceptual thinking and creation. Cathryn Liken remembers playing Legos for hours, constructing anything out of them: a boat, a plane, or a train.
As a wide-eyed inquisitive girl growing up in Pittsburgh, Cathryn avoided Barbie dolls like the plague, choosing to amuse herself with cardboard blocks instead. Catie, as she is ...
August 15, 2003
Written in 2003
Jean Foster’s childhood spent with her family in exotic Malaysia, where primal forests create a continuous skyline of green from shore side mangrove to mountaintop oak, gave her an enduring fascination for the Orient.
Malaysia’s population is surprisingly diverse, influenced by centuries of trade with China, India and Arab nations, and later with the Portuguese. While there are myriad indigenous Malay tribes, nearly 35 percent of the country’s population is immigrant Chinese. And it ...
March 15, 2003
By Gabriel Chen, written in 2003 Loaded with caffeine and eyelids heavy as bricks, it is 2 a.m. already and your head is beginning to shake. You have just completed page three of your 20-page paper that is due tomorrow before noon. That is a procrastinator, a character easily understood by college students, even as many of them try to cram the night before assignments are due.
For sophomore Ashleigh Thames, each morning, however, presents her ...
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