After Three Months in Kenya, UW Student Finds
New Career Interests and a Home Away From Home
Bridget Roby, from St. Paul, Minnesota, is a UW–Madison senior, graduating with degrees in international studies and journalism, as well as a certificate in African tudies. She studied abroad during the spring of her junior year (2009) in Nairobi and Mombasa, Kenya through the Minnesota Studies in International Development program (MSID) which is co-sponsored by UW–Madison. Roby says the experience changed her life and she can’t wait to get back. She will be enlisting in the Peace Corps next year.
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Studying Science in a French Context: Q&A with Alice Toy
Alice Toy is a senior from Waukesha, WI majoring in biology and French. Last year she studied in Lyon, France through the TransAtlantic Science Student Exchange Program (TASSEP). TASSEP is a consortium of universities from the European Union and the United States that has designed an academic year exchange program specifically for undergraduate science majors.