Alison Kolb, a senior majoring in Elementary Education and History with a certificate in African Studies, will teach this summer in Arusha, Tanzania. While volunteering as a teacher, Alison will also be involved in the afterschool programs at the school that are crucial to the success of those children who may not have a home to return to at the end of the school day. While in Arusha, Alison hopes to explore what afterschool programs are the most effective. Alison looks forward to the challenge teaching in Tanzania will provide her and she hopes to return to Tanzania in future.
Dana Bellissimo, a junior majoring in Biochemistry, will spend her summer at the University of Cambridge working with zebrafish to determine how genetic changes in novel platelet membranes affect the ability of platelets to form blood clots. Dana will be working at the world-renowned Sanger Institute under the direction of Dr. Willem Ouwehand. Her experience at the Sanger Institute this summer will help Dana as she prepares to undertake further research as a graduate student pursuing a dual MD/PhD degree.
William Marx, a junior majoring in classics and history, will travel to Berlin Germany to take a four-week intensive German language course at the Geothe Institute. His studies as the institute will prepare him to read German scholarship on events related to his senior thesis, which concerns the medieval crusades movement.
Tiffany Nondahl, a senior majoring in elementary education and Spanish, will travel to Comayagua, Honduras, where she will teach English. As an intern with Providence World Ministries, she will spend time caring for widows and orphans, particularly orphans with special needs. This program will help Tiffany gain skills she will need in her teaching career.
Jess Senjem, a junior majoring in anthropology and Spanish, will travel to Turkey to conduct research at the archaeological site of Troy. While there, she will engage in hands-on research of the skeletons recovered at Troy. As Jess is interested in the physical anthropology branch, this will help her expand her knowledge of how nutrition affects bones and how the people of Troy lived.
Other Zillman Award Winners:
2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012,
2011, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005