Harvard's Office of Career Services

International Funding: Weissman International Internship Program

2004 Weissman International Interns

Alexandra Atiya, 2006, (History) will work as a research intern with Prison Reform Trust in London, England.

Miya Bernson, 2006, (Biology) will conduct neuroscience research in the laboratory of Dr. Rosario Moratalla, at the Instituto Cajal in Madrid, Spain.

Yaa Bruce, 2005, (Biomedical Engineering) will be researching the self-assembly of biomaterials in Professor Heng-De Li's laboratory at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.

Kern Chen, 2005, (Economics) will work as an intern analyst at Maxima Capital Management, a venture capital firm in the technology sector in Taipei, Taiwan.

Teddy Chestnut, 2006, (Government) will conduct academic research with the Research Area team of the Justice Studies Center of the Americas in Santiago, Chile.

Kiran Deol, 2005, (English) will assist Dreamcatcher's Foundation with their work providing creative and imaginative healing processes for underprivileged children in Mumbai, India.

Peter Dodd, 2006, (International Relations and Religion) will work as an intern for Ambassador Edmundo Vargas at the Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America, in Mexico City, Mexico.

Danielle Fishman, 2005, (Slavic Languages and Literatures) will provide administrative support and design projects for the Center for Interethnic Cooperation, in Moscow, Russia.

Kirsten Frieda, 2006, (Chemistry and Physics) will conduct nanochemistry research with Dr. Wilhelm Huck at the University of Cambridge in England.

Tsitsi Gora, 2005, (Visual and Environmental Studies) will work as an intern in the Aboriginal Department at Sotheby's in Sydney and Melbourne, Australia.

Katherine Jarvis-Shean, 2005, (History) will intern at La Faggiola, an organic farm in Oliveto, Italy. She will assist them with the practical and business aspects of their farm.

Norifumi Kamo, 2005, (History and Science) will work with the Child Health and Social Ecology Project (CHASE) in Moshi, Tanzania. He will collect and analyze data on demographics and health.

Tamara Klajn, 2005, (History and Science/MBB) will assist the Treatment Action Campaign with their efforts to increase the public's access to, and awareness/use of HIV treatments in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Andréa Mayrose, 2006, (Social Studies) will assist pediatrician Holly Nelson with medical duties at Protestant Hospital in Ngaoundéré, Cameroon.

Lucy Moore, 2006, (History and Literature) will organize and run a summer educational program for Roma children with Fondacija Global-Kontakt in Bihac, Bosnia and Hercegovina.

Eric Nguyen, 2006, (Government) will work in the political and economic sections of the U.S. Embassy in Paris, France.

Kathryn Nielson, 2005, (Philosophy) will travel to Johannesburg, South Africa to work with Lawyers for Human Rights, assisting with programs related to their Gender Project.

Nenna Nwazota, 2006, (Psychology) will work as a tropical medicine intern under Dr. F.I. Ebozue at UNN Teaching Hospital at the University of Nigeria, in Nsukka, Nigeria.

Shola Olorunnipa, 2005, (Biology) will work with researchers at the APIN (AIDS Prevention Initiative Nigeria) lab in Jos, Nigeria, and intern with the clinical staff at a nearby AIDS clinic.

Annelisa Pedersen, 2006, (English and Music) will work as an arts administration intern at Bregenzer Festspiele, an operal festival in Bregenz, Austria.

Christopher Platts, 2006, (History of Art and Architecture) will research Italian paintings in the Berenson Collection at Villa I Tatti, in Florence, Italy.

Bridget Queenan, 2006, (Biochemistry) will conduct research on the basic mechanism of programmed cell death as it pertains to cancer. She will be working with Dr. Santos Susin at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, France.

Andrew Rabens, 2005, (Government) will work at the Bureau of European Affairs at the U.S. State Department in London, England.

Stephen Robbins, 2005, (Engineering Sciences) will conduct research on vertebral trabecular bone in mice. He will work with Professor Ralph Muller at ETH and the University of Zurich in Switzerland.

Ben Robinson, 2006, (Social Studies) will teach English at the Tibetan Children's Villages in Dharamsala, India. He will also help facilitate the International Youth Workshop on Human Rights in Asia.

Kyle Scherer, 2005, (American Public Policy and American Indian Politics) will work for four judges at the Land Claims Court of South Africa in Randburg.

Lewis Alex Slack, 2006, (History) will work with Solis, helping to develop a curriculum to educate American college students about how the media affects U.S.-Middle Eastern relations. His work will take him to Beirut, Lebanon and Doha, Qatar.

Katherine Stanchik, 2006, (Economics and Russian Studies) will work with several departments on regulatory issues and security market law at the Federal Commission for the Securities Market for the Russian Federation in Moscow, Russia.

Katharine Valente, 2006, (Social Studies) will intern with International City Management Association (ICMA) in Gujarat, India. She will be assisting ICMA in documenting experiences in association building and best practices in urban management.

Jacob Welch, 2006, (Economics) will assist Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) with two microfinance research projects in Lima, Peru.

Thomas Widland, 2006, (History) will conduct financial economics research in risk management at Kaupthing Bunadarbanki in Reykjavik, Iceland.