Class of 2024's First Destinations report finds 95% of graduates were either employed
or continuing their education just nine months after leaving Washington College.
26 students are embarking on career building summer internships at prestigious posts
across the nation through the Starr Center’s Explore America Program.
Sammy Segeda ’23 will be teaching English in Laos for the 2025-26 school year through the program. Three students and one other alumna also had impressive success in nationally competitive fellowships.
The new poetry collection from Alyse Bensel ’10, Spoil, explores remarkably personal wounds that remind us that life is lived, suffered, and celebrated on the individual level.
Ethnomusicology and Arts Management and Entrepreneurship Minors
EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING
Hodson Collaborative Research Grant
Open Studio Intern
CAMPUS ACTIVITIES
Cater Society, Vice President
Theatre Productions
“I’m incredibly thankful and lucky to have had this opportunity working with Dr. Schweitzer. It’s really interesting being able to work more as colleagues in this project while also being student and mentor. I’m able to freely share and develop my own thoughts, and my ideas are taken very seriously.”
“I've loved every part of this experience, but especially having the opportunity to talk to and learn from so many experts in the field. I also loved camping in Wyoming and getting to see how our samples were collected firsthand.”
“It is a nice major for people who really want to have a tangible effect, people who like to create things, and people who like everything. You do a bit of everything. Data science is very much a major that doesn’t exist without other departments. It is in service of whatever client you’re working for. It is interesting with every different job seeing a different side of an industry or a different side of academics.”
Internship with the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Tribal and International Affairs
Libby and Douglas Cater Society of Junior Fellows
EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
Musicians Union
InterVarsity Christian Fellowship
“From my anthropology classes, I’ve learned how human experience differs from culture to culture, and even within each culture. From environmental classes, I’ve learned more about what we can do to protect the environment and the people. From my museum education courses and experiences, I’ve learned how important it is to craft the educational experience based on the audience, environment, and intention, to make the greatest impact. The combination of all three has given me the foundation to do this work.”
“The career center is so helpful. I've been involved with the career center and my career advisor since my freshman year. She has been so helpful. She helped me look for different externships and internships and opportunities. And she helped me find an externship that I did the summer after my sophomore year at Mercy Medical Hospital in Baltimore. I got to work with a bunch of different nurses in the hospital, learn from nurses and physicians about working together and different specialties, and work with patients and see what it's like working in a hospital.”
Washington College experts break down important issues of the day.
The Illusion of Control
Valerie Imbruce, the Lammot Du Pont Director of the Washington College Center for
Environment and Society, discusses calls for funding cuts and restrictions on the
foods that recipients can purchase through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
(SNAP), which provides a vital safety net, offering regular and reliable food support
to low-income individuals and families.
Each center is linked to a broad intellectual community and provides programming,
events, internships, and coursework that complement the College's diverse academic
programs.
Opportunities: CES Fellows, Chesapeake Semester, field research, conservation internships
“Everything we do here at CES is aimed at preparing our undergraduates, the next generation
of leaders, to tackle the most pressing environmental issues.”
Location: Rose O'Neill Literary House, 407 Washington Ave.
Opportunities: Cherry Tree literary journal, student publications, readings and workshops with working
writers
“The Lit House offers over 100 internships annually, hosts visits by award-winning
writers, publishes work of exceptional merit, and provides a space for students to
feel at home and to grow as writers, editors, and publishers.”
Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience
Location: Custom House, 101 S. Water St.
Opportunities: Explore America Summer Internships, Quill & Compass
“We offer students dynamic opportunities for hands-on learning and off-campus experiences
to explore the American experience in all its diversity and complexity, opportunities
unequaled at other small liberal arts schools.”
