Nine students who chose Connecticut College

Pete Baum ’07, who is pre-med, a major in behavioral neuroscience, and a possible Hispanic studies or Latin American studies minor, studied through the School for International Training (SIT). He spent his fall term in Ecuador, exploring the rainforest, teaching children English, math and how to body surf, and becoming fluent in Spanish.


As a child, Reynaldo Lugo ’06 spent hours watching “Captain Planet,”the hit television show that pitted five environmentally conscious “Planeteers” against the evils of corporate pollution. Years later, his interest in the environment remains unchanged, but now he is a more realistic activist.


When Ami Temarantz ’09 was just 15, her father passed away suddenly from pulmonary fibrosis, a little-known disease that fatally scars the lung. It was a tragedy that the native of Wilkes-Barre, Pa. refused to take sitting down. “I decided to turn my outrage into action,” Ami says.


Dushane Ramsay ’06 is possibly the most active person at Connecticut College. The American Studies major is always running around campus, whether delivering the student-published Daily Conntact down on south campus, planning and DJing an event in Cro, dancing at a party in Unity, or conducting the Coast Guard Drill Team at dinner in Harris. He can, and does, do it all, but the question remains: How?


For Emily Hake ’07, living in a Russian Buryat village with a Buddhist spiritual leader while studying abroad last fall was one thing. Helping to slaughter a sheep for dinner was quite another.


Newly published author Benjamin “Philly” Sanfilippo-Cohn ’06 spent the summer of 2005 in a research lab in his hometown, just outside of Philadelphia. The Ultimate Frisbee team captain is a prime example of a successful CELS (Career Enhancing Life Skills) junior year internship, one that found him studying sleep apnea in mice.


Nicole Adams ’06 truly understands the meaning of a liberal arts education. An economics and Latin American studies double major, she is currently writing an honors thesis that combines both of these interests: exploring how land rights affect the economic well-being of rural Peruvian women, and the subsequent educational achievement of their children.


Last summer, when Andrew Higgins ’07 was preparing to spend two months in Puebla, Mexico working on a project with CC anthropology professor Harold Juli, he knew that he would enjoy his time there. But he never expected to fall in love.

Meghan Hewitt ’06, a neuroscience major, recently discovered her real passion: bringing science education to children in her community. Since this realization, she has spent a great part of her spring semester developing and putting into action a new Science Educators Group at Connecticut College.