Established in 2007 by Natalie Ammarell ’67, friends and classmates, this fund supports female students participating in the St. Lawrence program in France or completing an independent project in France, who are United States citizens and have never before traveled abroad.
As Intern I worked directly with an Investment Analyst in the company. My personal work consisted of task such as research into prospective investment market, studying Corporate Finance terms such as Mergers and Acquisitions, Business Valuations, and looking into various types of company fundraising.
? I was interning for a very small education technology startup based in Dublin. I reported to the CEO and founder and sole employee of the company so it was definitely a very intimate experience. I did new things every week for the company such as researching app development and project management tools. Throughout the entire time my overall project was basically to prototype a mobile application. My supervisor was extremely flexible and we created my plan and goals together each week.
During my semester in Madrid, Spain I had the amazing opportunity to do a five-day bike trip of the Camino de Santiago in Galicia, Spain during my Spring break. This trip was made able through an enrichment grant from the Clare Marie Rogers Matthews Memorial Award. I completed the five day trip, which was over 245 kilometers, with a fellow St. Lawrence students who was abroad in Spain with me as well as a Spanish friend of ours. The Camino de Santiago is a route that begins in France and ends in Santiago de Compostela, Spain in the North West providence of Spain.
When I first arrived at St. Lawrence, I knew I wanted to go abroad at some point during my four years. In the spring of 2017, I had the opportunity to study abroad in Copenhagen, Denmark and knew that I wanted to visit other cities in Europe while I was there. Of the trips that I went on, the one that is most memorable to me is the week I traveled to Italy to explore the history of art and religion in both Rome and Florence.
Through the travel enrichment grant and generous sponsors, felt lucky in that I was able to travel to Rome, Italy during Easter 2018 to explore the origins of Christianity. I did this alongside fellow student Shaina Gormley ’20.
I spent my semester abroad in Copenhagen, Denmark and I was able to visit Paris, France and Amsterdam, Netherlands with the travel enrichment grant I received from Ms. Natalie Ammarell. I explored these cities in order to learn about the sexual relationships between couples and consent education throughout Europe. I conducted my research by observing couples in Paris, Denmark, and Amsterdam and was able to learn how relationships differed from those in America. To begin, in Denmark, before we even began class, we learned about consent in Denmark.
Hello! My name is Mikayla Lathrop, and I am a junior mathematics and environmental studies major at St. Lawrence. This past semester, fall of 2019, I was given the incredible opportunity to step outside of South Londonderry, VT and the SLU bubble to study abroad in Kenya. Throughout my time there, we traveled all over the country learning about the 47 different ethnic communities and how they are being affected by climate change. As soon as I heard that I had been accepted to the program, I immediately started looking up fun facts and pictures of Kenya.
I have always been interested in farming and the way in which cultures develop around agriculture. I believe my fascination with agriculture began with the innocent admiration for the farming lifestyle idealized in American history and in tales like Johnny Appleseed. I loved the idea of growing one's own food, being self-sufficient and providing for one's family. Now, as I've grown older and have learned more about global agriculture, I am interested in the ways in which agriculture creates communities. How, in growing food, a community is grown as well. Cultur
With the generosity of donors and the St. Lawrence University Geology Department, I was able to travel to the Cliffs of Moher and a part of the Burren during the spring of 2019. My travels were inspired by a geomorphology project on how Ireland’s formation can teach us about plate tectonics which allowed me to understand the geological importance of many tourism spots across the country.