Harvard's Office of Career Services

International Funding: Weissman International Internship Program

2007 Weissman International Interns

Isha Agarwal, 2009, (Chemical and Physical Biology and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies) will work to improve the pre-natal health opportunities and post-delivery care for women and infants in Kigali, Rwanda.

Ekaterina Botchkina, 2009, (Philosophy) will help acquire and curate contemporary art at the Opera Gallery in Paris, France.

Rafael Buerba, 2008, (Biological Anthropology) will fully immerse himself in the world of surgery by shadowing surgeons and by functioning as an operating room assistant at Quirúrgica C.A. in Barcelona, Spain.

Anna Chen,
2009, (Chemical and Physical Biology) will study plant cell division planar polarity and dynamics at the University of Cambridge in Professor Ray Goldstein's lab in Cambridge, England.

Jason Chen, 2009, (Biophysics) will research immune responses to high-intensity focused ultrasound cancer treatment at Chongqing Medical University in Chongqing, China.

Allen Cheng, 2009, (Chemistry) will assess scalability of the rapid diagnostics clinic project in rural areas nationwide. He will also help set up a rapid diagnostics clinic for HIV/AIDS and strep A using novel technologies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Jane Cheng, 2009, (History of Art and Architecture) will learn about book history and conservation as an assistant to the curator of manuscripts and incunabula at the Herzog August Bibiothek in Wolfenbüttel, Germany.

Cynthia Chi, 2008, (Biophysics) will conduct research in biophysical aspects of cell migration and cancer biology at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Nam Woo Cho, 2008, (Biology) will engage in clinical internship and service along with Mongolian student residents at the Yonsei Friendship Hospital in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

Killian Clarke, 2009 (Social Studies and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations) will be writing, editing, and researching for The Daily Star Cairo, an English language daily newspaper in Cairo, Egypt.

Henry Cowles, 2008, (Environmental Science and Public Policy) will research the relation between science and religion in letters at the Darwin Correspondence Project in Cambridge, England.

Penny Fang, 2008, (Biology- Mind, Brain, and Behavior track) will work with community health workers to develop a malaria treatment and prevention program in Kalalu, Uganda.

Jessica Hightower, 2009, (Molecular and Cellular Biology) will be working in a shelter for abandoned youth who live along the Bangalore City Railway tracks, teaching English and helping the youth find jobs to get them off the street, as well as helping open a women's shelter in Bangalore, India.

Bradley Hinshelwood, 2009, (Government) will do reporting and research assignments for Down to Earth magazine at the Centre for Science and Environment in New Delhi, India.

Laura James, 2009, (History and Literature) will work with the marketing and fundraising Director of Special Olympics Great Britain in London, England.

Jean Junior, 2009, (Sociology) will help develop treatment guidelines for patients co-infected with HIV and tuberculosis in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.

Marianne Kaletzky, 2008, (English and American Literature and Language) will work in researching, producing, and promoting documentary films about European and American politics at Elsa Rassbach Filmproduction in Berlin, Germany.

Paul Katz, 2009, (History and Literature) will work with ProyectArte to strengthen public art education programs for elementary and high school students in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Julia Lam, 2009, (Social Anthropology and English and American Literature and Language) will intern at the Irish Center for Human Rights at the National University of Ireland, in Galway, Ireland.

Kristina Liu, 2008, (Neurobiology) will study treatment methods and new pharmaceuticals for obesity and diabetes with world-renowned researcher-clinician Dr. Joseph Proietto in Melbourne, Australia.

Stephanie Mok, 2009, (Biology) will evaluate the Chinese health system through policy analysis and strategic planning of US-China global medical ventures at Harvard Medical International's Beijing Regional Office in Beijing, China.

Vikas Mouli, 2009, (Economics) will conduct microfinance research on client financial status and efficacious publicity methods in La Plata, Argentina.

Vani Nambudiri, 2009, (Sanskrit and Indian Studies and Economics) will work on microfinance and public health initiatives within the context of development with the Evangelical Social Action Forum in Kerala, India.

Nguyen Nguyen, 2009 (Human Evolutionary Biology) will assist on two projects on the epigenetic factors in human sexual differentiation at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, France.

Courtney O'Brien, 2009 (Applied Mathematics) will work closely with the Business Action to Support the Information Society (BASIS) team at the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris, France.

Stephanie O'Rourke, 2008, (History of Art and Architecture and English and American Literature and Language) will perform archival research and will participate in archeological digs for the Regional Historical Museum Blagoevgrad in Sofia and Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria.

Francisco Perese, 2009, (Environmental Science and Public Policy and Economics) will study the viability and document the implementation of a franchising initiative for microfinance banks while working for Intellecap, a strategy consulting firm in Hyderabad, India.

Phillip Petrou, 2009, (Chemistry) will conduct a functional analysis of an essential protease involved in host cell invasion by the malaria parasite at the Université de Genève in Geneva, Switzerland.

Robert Ross, 2009, (Social Studies) will be meeting with children in Internally Displaced Persons camps and tracking their progress as they are put into boarding schools around the country through the NGO Latin Balle Pee/The Child Is Innocent in Kampala, Uganda.

Andrew Schalkwyk, 2008, (History) will help conduct research regarding affirmative action and youth participation in Indian elections at the Lokniti Programme for Comparative Democracy in Dehli, India.

Rebecca Smith, 2009 (Human Evolutionary Biology) will work with the medical clinic of the Unidad Academica Campesina de Carmen Pampa to help provide care for Carmen Pampa and the thirteen remote villages surrounding it in the rural Nor Yungas territory, Bolivia.

Jacqueline Stenson, 2008, (Engineering Sciences) will be a crew leader for building projects at Habitat for Humanity in Durban. She will also be designing site plans and helping with the on-site management of an orphanage building project with Cunina Zulu Trust (from Belgium ) and the Rotary Club of Eshowe, South Africa.

Arjun Suri, 2008, (Social Studies) will help devise policy strategies to combat the human resource crisis in health and education at the University of San Martin de Porres in Lima, Peru.

Aidan Tait, 2008, (Romance Languages and Literatures) will teach English and help direct a soccer-based employability curriculum for A Vencer, a Partners of America program serving adolescents in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Cindy Ung, 2009 (Biochemical Sciences) will research on vaccine development and host pathogen interactions of Mycobacterium tuberculosis at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, France.

April Wang, 2009 (History and Literature – America) will teach a creative writing workshop, assist in publishing the Southword Literary Journal, and organize literary events at the Munster Literature Center in Cork, Ireland.

Christina Ke Xu, 2009 (Computer Science) will work with a prison reform organization to set up a radio network and record label in the major prisons in Kingston, Jamaica.

Yangyang Yu, 2009 (Chemical and Physical Biology) will investigate the subcellular localization of tumor suppressor protein APC and generate stable cell lines for its expression at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research in Melbourne, Australia.