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Class of 2002
Eight members of the class of `02 were the first to graduate from the
Goodwin-Niering Center Certificate Program. Family, friends and distinguished
guests from the campus community were present at the Recognition Ceremony
held in May. The Center was proud to honor this hard-working group for
their many achievements and diverse interests in the environment.
Back row, left to right: Leys Bostrom, Maria Sinnamon,
Hannah Shayler, Marjorie Lundgren, Rachel Towers, Emily Templin. Front
row: Jessica Schwartz and Laura Roe.
The Certificate students are listed below with links to their own page,
to their internship reflection papers and internship organizations'
web sites, and to a brief abstract of their Senior Integrative Projects.
Leys Bostrom
Major: Gender and Women's Studies
Internship: Institute
for Central American Development Studies in Costa Rica
Senior Integrative
Project: "Hidden From View: A Closer Look at Banana Production
in Costa Rica." Academic Supervisor: Professor Ted Hendrickson,
Photography
Marjorie Lundgren
Major: Environmental Studies Minor: Anthropology
Internship: Invasive
Species Monitoring and Control Intern at The Nature Conservancy
in Connecticut
Senior Integrative
Project: "Environmental and Site Characteristics Influencing
Invasion of Ten Exotic Plant Species in Southern New England."
Academic Supervisors: Professors Christine Small and Glenn Dreyer, Botany
Laura Rowe
Major: Ethnobotany
Internship: The commercialization
of tropical medicinal plants under the Malaysia-MIT Biotechnology Partnership
at MIT
Senior Integrative Project:
"Intellectual Property Rights in the K-Economy: Use and Protection
of Traditional Knowledge." Academic Supervisor: Professor Manuel
Lizarralde, Botany/Anthropology
Jessica Schwartz
Major: Biology
Internship: Vanasse
Hangen Brustlin, Inc. in Watertown Massachusetts
Senior Integrative
Project: "Long term Change (1952-1992) in
the Vegtation of the Bolleswood Natural Area, Connecticut College, New
London Connecticut." Academic Supervisor: Professor Scott Warren,
Botany
Hannah Shayler
Major: Environmental Studies Minor: Art
Internship: The
Freshwater Ecology Lab at Connecticut College
Senior Integrative
Project: "Biodiversity of the diatom genus Brachysira Kutsing
(Bacillariophyceae) in the Ocala National Forest, FL, USA". Academic
Supervisor: Professor Peter Siver, Botany
Maria Sinnamon
Major: Environmental Studies
Internship: Water
Management Bureau, DEP of Hartford
Senior Integrative
Project: "The Response in Water Quality and the
Propagation of Pollution-Senstive Taxa of the Naugatuck River Due to
the Upgraded Waterbury Treatment Plant." Academic Supervisor: Professor
Doug Thompson, Geophysics
Emily Templin
Major: Environmental Studies Minors: Government and Biology
Internship: Environmental
research and policy intern at Oregon Environmental Council
Senior Integrative
Project: "Mobilizing Support for School Environmental Health
Issues: A Study of Connecticut Movements in New London, Lyme-Old Lyme
and Litchfield." Academic Supervisors: Professors Robert Askins,
Biology; Jane Dawson, Government; John Nugent
Rachael Towers
Major: Religious Studies
Internship: Historical
and ethnobotanical research at the Mashantucket-Pequot Museum and Research
Center, Mashantucket, CT
Senior Integrative
Project: "Spiritual Aspects of Native New England
Ethnobotany: Beliefs and Practices of New England Tribes and Lessons
for Western Society." Academic Supervisor: Professor Manuel Lizarralde,
Botany/Anthropology
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