After spending the summer of 2020 interning at Mosaic Minds Art Academy (MMAA) Rodriguez now feels like her dream of owning an art school is achievable. She was inspired by the joy and pride that teaching brings her mentor Summer King.

Rowan interned as a residential hall leader for the Duke Talent Identification Program (TIP) at the University of Georgia (UGA) where she managed sixteen residential counselors and coordinated daily activities for more than 200 high school students each session.

“I became interested in the Japanese language when I was twelve years old after finding and listening to Japanese music on the Internet. I really loved the music and wanted to learn more about the culture, the language, and the history.”

Associate Professor of Music Michael McGhee produced a CD of solo organ music, Tapestry, recorded in Wesleyan’s Porter Auditorium on the College’s historic Aeolian organ. Featured on the national broadcast of the Pipedreams, airing on about 145 NPR stations across the country.  

Professor Ferrari was presented the Earle R. Greene Memorial Award for achievement in ornithology and bird education from the Georgia Ornithological Society (GOS). He has served as President of GOS (2011-13) and is the current editor of the Oriole.

Nursing Program Director Fritz and nursing faculty annually take a group of senior nursing students to Jamaica for a week-long medical mission trip. The group visits and assists patients at hospitals and at children’s homes. Students describe the experience as “life changing.”

Tara Reigel ’19 says she was able to keep up with the demands of her triple major because she is driven by her love of knowledge and possesses great time management skills. “I love accounting because I love organizing information and working with numbers. It’s like solving a puzzle and my brain works in a way that makes the process really enjoyable.”

A senior project manager, regional technology affairs Europe, for Saudi Arabia Basic Industries Corp (SABIC), a global leader in diversified chemicals headquartered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. SABIC has more than 35,000 employees in more than 50 countries across the world. Jessica is based in Geleen, Netherlands, where she leads a team of highly skilled developers working on “140 or so global research projects.”

Since 2015, Maria Georgieva ’09 has served Harvard University’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health as a postdoctoral research fellow in the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, studying the human bacterial pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae.