Genocide and Holocaust Studies major Danielle Flaherty and Education/History major Gregg French presented at an Eco-Representative conference at Babson College on Saturday, Nov. 5. Eco-reps is a peer-to-peer education program that works primarily in residence halls to make students aware of how their actions impact the environment and the cost of running the school. Danielle and Greg were asked to look at how their major ties in with the education work they have been doing. For example, Danielle looked at how the way Americans use and dispose of technology impacts the resources and the social, environmental, and economic fabric in such places as the Sudan. Their presentation was in the “Effective Dorm Strategies”  track and featured their work as peer educators at KSC.
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KSC geography major Dave Daly got back to campus for his senior year a little late this fall. Travel along the first leg of his journey home was a little iffy. He was returning from an internship with the Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association out of Kenai, Alaska, that he’d landed through the Student Conservation Association (SCA). He and an internship partner spent the summer camped along Alaska’s remote Susitna River, where they collected data on the adult sockeye salmon as they migrated upstream to spawn and die. A float plane brought them to camp, and delivered their supplies every two weeks. Their only contact with civilization came via a 20-minute satellite phone call they could make every other week, or mail that came in and out on the supply plane. They did have neighbors though—the furry, unwelcome kind who were only interested in the food supplies.
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KSC hopes that its students will enter to learn and go forth to serve, but brand-new freshman Taylor Thomas moved into Fiske Hall today with an impressive resume of service already under her belt—or rather, her wetsuit. Taylor and her friend Lindsey Mercer created Surfing with Smiles and spent the summer at Hampton Beach teaching special-needs students how to surf.

“It’s the most rewarding thing I’ve done in my life,” Taylor said. “Lindsey and I are big surfers, and we decided that we wanted to give our passion to other people. So it’s not just us loving surfing, it’s other people loving surfing as well.”
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KSC junior Gwenn Lanouette will take a big step towards her career goal of working with the Boston Bruins when she logs some real-world experience as a non-certified athletic trainer for South Lake Hospital at ESPN Wide World of Sports in Florida this summer. As a member of the Athletic Training Education Program, Lanouette heard about the internship opportunity from Dr. Wanda Swiger.

“To be eligible for this internship you had to be entering at least your fourth undergrad year; you must have completed all evaluation courses, therapeutic modalities, and therapeutic exercise classes; and you must also have a minimum GPA of 3.0,” Lanouette explained. “While participating in this internship, I will get to work with athletes of all different age ranges, ethnicity, types of sport, and skill levels (ranging from amateurs to professionals).” Pretty impressive!

Clarinetist Alyssa Comeau (’13) and Katy Lundstedt (’14), alto saxophonists Mark Perry (’11) and Jake Potelle (’11), trombonist Rob Skrocki (’14), and tubist Cote Lagerberg (’14) performed with the New England College Band Association’s (NECBA) 29th annual New England Intercollegiate Band on Friday and Saturday, April 1–2, 2011, at Gordon College in Wenham, MA. Approximately 60 musicians were selected by audition from over 10 New England colleges and universities.

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