Stories

Garrison Ferone’23 at right, front after measuring, weighing, and checking the respiration of a sea turtle in the Galapagos.

Traveling the world and our own backyard

They conducted archaeological research on Neanderthal stone tools in North Macedonia and swam with sea lions in the Galapagos, trained as an EMT with the South Beloit Fire Department and studied environmental policy in Finland.

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Midori Tanada ’23 touches up the vinyl for the exhibit done by students in Susan Furukawa’s “Narratives of War and Peace” Japanese class.

Museums and Modern Languages

Students in Professors Sylvia López and Susan Furukawa’s classes engage in experiential learning in campus museums

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Citizenship, Migration, and Belonging in Granada, Spain

Beloit Students and Faculty Travel to Granada

This summer, students participated in a unique experience in Spain, led by Professors Gabriela Cerghedean and Amy Tibbitts. Beloit College offersSummer Coursesin a range of topics in the summer taught by Beloit College faculty.

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Jerry Phuc Ngo’23 worked on several research projects at MIT.

Multiple Research Projects with Faculty Fuel Passions

With dual majors in computer science and mathematics, Jerry Phuc Ngo’23 has found Beloit College a nurturing environment for his interest in artificial intelligence.

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Elena Patilliet

Elena Patilliet Posla’22 awarded the Congressional Award Gold Medal

This is the highest honor Congress may bestow upon a youth civilian.

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Overview of the USFQ/Beloit English/Spanish COIL collaboration

能得到nal Friday: Collaborative Online Learning

During the first mod of the spring 2021 semester, Gabriela Cerghedean and Robin Zebrowski took up an invitation from the Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ), Ecuador, to partner with a USFQ faculty member in teaching one of their courses. USFQ had shared a list of potential faculty partners and courses. Both leapt at the opportunity, in

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Pictures from the 2019 Lunar New Year Event held between the Chinese Club and the Chinese language program

能得到nal Friday: The Chinese Club turns 100!

Interview with Siyu Sun’21, the club’s current president.

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Sage Green ’21 (right)

The Puppet Play

Sage Green ’21 brings theater to the community with“The Puppet Play,” a devised theater project they wrote and brought to life in collaboration with high school students.

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DaZha Creal’21

建立社区和参与

DaZha believes that community engagement and involvement on campus are essential to getting the full Beloit experience. Creating connections and channels of productive communication are her key to a successful education at Beloit.

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Guadalupe Orbezo-Perez’20

Caring for Diverse Populations

Guadalupe Orbezo-Perez’20, a senior biochemistry and psychology double major, French minor, and Pakula Biomedical Scholar, aspires to be a clinical psychologist, adding “I am trilingual and we need clinicians who can care for diverse populations.”

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Daigeng Tian in the DMZ zone between North and South Korea.

Broading Interests

Beloit helped Daigeng Tian find unexpected interests.

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Britta Johnson posing with a statue of a young girl.

Breaking Down Barriers

Britta Johnson completed an internship at Her Justice, an organization that “stands with women living in poverty in New York City by recruiting and mentoring volunteer lawyers to provide free legal help to address individual and systemic legal barriers,” Alumna Simone Harstead ’16 works as a legal assistant and training coordinator at Her Justice.

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Nathan Marklin volunteered at a migrant camp in southern Mexico.

Volunteering with a migrant camp

For a month in 2018, Nathan Marklin (philosophyandhistorymajor andSpanishminor) volunteered with LA72, a migrant camp in southern Mexico. Made possible by aWeissbergHuman Rights Grant, the experience included teaching English to a group of fourteen and working in an infirmary, registration, and communications office.

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Rita Chang’18 and Melissa Pelkey’19 volunteered at the Stateline Literacy Council helping adults prepare to take their citizenship exam.

Preparing for Citizenship Exams

As part of theirSpanishclass on human rights, Rita Chang’18 and Melissa Pelkey’19 volunteered at the Stateline Literacy Council helping adults prepare to take their citizenship exam.

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