CURRENT ADVENTURES

Snigdha Toodi, Copenhagen.
Snigdha, a President's Scholar, is a junior biology major, minoring in chemistry and math, in Dedman College. In Fall 2009, she is participating in the Medical Practice and Policy Program at the Danish Institute for Study Abroad through SMU-in-Copenhagen.

Jordan Johansen, Germany.
Jordan is a junior with a triple major in music in SMU's Meadows School of the Arts and anthropology and history in Dedman College, with minors in human rights and European studies. In Summer 2009, she is participating in SMU-in-Germany and the Global Leadership Program in Prague and Berlin, which trains students to become community, business and political leaders through university courses, cultural activities and community service.

Lydia Kapp, Taos.
Lydia is a sophomore with a double major in Spanish in Dedman College and theater studies in Meadows School of the Arts. She is spending the June 2009 term in SMU-in-Taos, where she will be taking plant biology and acting scene study. Then she plans to visit the city of Bukavu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where her sister works with the nonprofit Food for the Hungry.

Rebecca Quinn, France and Spain.
Rebecca is junior with a triple major in art history in Meadows School of the Arts and Spanish and French in Dedman College. In Summer 2009, she will begin her travels in the sunny South of France on the Cote d’Azur before continuing to Barcelona. There, she will pursue a Richter research project, studying the relationship between nationalized Catholicism, the Franco regime and parish church architecture in the Catalunya region of northeastern Spain. After Barcelona, Rebecca will continue to the Burgundy region of France, where she will volunteer as a guest worker on an organic vegetable farm before settling down for Fall 2009 in Madrid.

PAST ADVENTURES

Pragya Lohani, Nepal, 2009 alum.
Returned to Nepal this summer (2007) to work with "Peace Ambassadors," a peace project funded by the Kathryn Wasserman Davis Fund.

Karen Gutierrez, Spain, 2008 alum.
A math and geology major from Albequerque, New Mexico, she is spending spring 2007 in Madrid at the SMU-in-Spain program.

Michael Evans, Houston, 2009 alum.
Assisting with medical research at the Stehlin Foundation for Cancer Research in Houston, Texas. Summer (2006)

Alan Lin, London, 2008 alum.
Majoring in economics and foreign language, Alan is spending the 2006-07 school year studying at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Blake Houghton, 2006 alum.
Traveling the world during summer 2006 from the Great Barrier Reef of Australia to bobsledding in the Baltics.

Maria Lambert, 2006 alum.
Southeast Asia, New Zealand, Argentina. Traveling the world. (2006)