<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/2025/1030-sef-profiles.php" dsn="blogs"><featured/><feature_title>Featured News</feature_title><title>Summer experiences empower through creativity, community, and career preparation</title><author/><author_email>info@skidmore.edu</author_email><pubDate>11/12/2025 07:35:17 AM</pubDate><display>display</display><description>Through Skidmore’s Summer Experience Fund program, students can participate in internships, research projects, community service, artist residencies, and apprenticeships.</description><category>Student Stories</category><image_listing><img src="/news/2025/images/1103-lana-cobo-thumbnail.jpg" alt="Skidmore student Lana Cobo ’27"/></image_listing><image><img src="/news/2025/images/1103-lana-cobo-feature.jpg" alt="Skidmore student Lana Cobo ’27"/></image><caption>Lana Cobo ’27, a double major in international affairs and German, spent the summer photographing her hometown in Bosnia and Herzegovina and portraying the identities that shape her community.</caption></item>