- Plotnick’s work covering the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection was recognized with a Pulitzer Prize. She spoke with current student and aspiring radio journalist Aaron Shellow-Lavine ’23 about her time at Skidmore and career in journalism.
- Going to a top liberal arts college is an opportunity to grow academically and personally. But how to translate classroom learning and skillsets into a career? A funded internship, for starters.
- Funding for internships is nearly as diverse as the internships themselves. Who did what last summer, and what did they gain from it?
- Meet a few of the students participating in Skidmore's funded research internship program this summer.
- More than 70 students are engaged in funded summer internships, from organic farming in Vermont, to an astrophysics lab in Colorado, to an orphanage in Nepal.
- Almost 200 Skidmore students participated in Skidmore-funded internship, research, workshop, and community-service experiences last summer. More are available this year, and there's still time to apply!
- Emerson O'Donnell '15 and Hanna Levine '14 will work this summer in labs at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
- More than 10,000 alumni, parents, and friends made a gift to Skidmore this past giving year (June 1, 2011-May 31, 2012). Each of these individuals helped to Make Creative Thought Happen for Skidmore's students and faculty!
- With SGA support, 30 Skidmore students this summer are serving in unpaid internships in such far-off places as Tanzania, Indonesia, and Alaska. They're working for such organizations as the Brookings Institution, the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, and the Martha's Vineyard Museum.