Lauren Kasparson ’15 is majoring in neuroscience at Colgate and is completing a Summer Field School Fellowship at the Kelberman Center, an organization in Utica that is dedicated to the advancement of individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Lauren is working as a part of Kelberman’s Awesome Summer Days camp, a five-week summer program designed to increase inter-camper socialization through a variety of fun activities. Lauren is helping to create and implement an assessment tool that will measure qualitative and quantitative progress and help document social skill improvements in individual campers. By the end of the summer the social skill measures Lauren is collecting will allow Kelberman to see which specific tools are most effective for campers. It will also allow their staff and counselors to provide information to parents and families about their child’s social skill development and how it has changed at their time at camp.

Lauren Kasparson ’15 with a camper at the Awesome Summer Days Camp.

Read more

SHARE

Monica Murphy ’16 is working with two organizations that preserve and promote a local trail as an historic and public recreation site. The Chenango Canal Association, located in Bouckville, works to preserve the canal, surrounding waters and lands and maintains five miles of trail along the canal towpath and three miles of trail extension in the Village of Hamilton.  Similarly, the Chenango Greenway Conservancy, located in Norwich, maintains a series of public recreational trails along the Chenango River, the former Ontario & Western Railroad, and the historic corridor of the Chenango Canal, and focuses on establishing a Riverwalk Trail in Norwich.

Monica Murphy ’16 at the Chenango Canal in Bouckville.

Read more

SHARE

Brendan Walsh ’15 is a Colgate history major who is working for two different organizations this summer as a Field School Fellow. He is putting his major to use for the Town of Hamilton by conducting archival research and organizing the town’s documents to determine what should be retained and what should be destroyed. He is using the town archive to create a complete timeline of the history of Hamilton, which will be on display in the town office window at the end of the summer.  Along with the timeline, the display he creates will feature archival pieces found during his work and will highlight their importance in the history of the town.

Brendan Walsh ’15 works with Sue Reymers in the Town of Hamilton office.

Read more

SHARE

Sarah Wooton ’15 and Emily Hawkins ’15 are working with the Young Scholars Liberty Partnership Program this summer as Field School Fellows. The Partnership is a collaborative project between Utica College and the Utica City School District that aims to motivate elementary and high school students to stay in school, earn their New York State Advanced Regents diploma, and pursue post-secondary education.

Emily Hawkins ’15 and Sarah Wooton ’15 are building capacity with the Young Scholars Program at Utica College this summer.

Read more

SHARE

Justine Gambale ’15 is majoring in sociology at Colgate, and has taken courses in research methods to develop skills that she is putting into practice this summer as a Field School Fellow. She is working with the Multicultural Association of Medical/Legal Interpreters of New York (MAMI Interpreters) to help them integrate their services into the larger community and to build a sense of community among the interpreters that are providing services in the Upstate region.

Justine Gambale ’15 and Cornelia Brown from MAMI Interpreters in Utica, New York

Read more

SHARE

Alex Maulden ’16 is working with the Fiver Children’s Foundation this summer to perform a sustainability audit of Camp Fiver, located about five miles from Colgate’s campus in Poolville, New York. She is looking at data from the camp’s operations—energy and water usage, solar energy, composting, recycling, purchasing practices, even cleaning supplies—to recommend more sustainable and environmentally friendly practices that may save the organization money. Her recommendations will detail the cost of proposed changes and factors that the foundation will need to consider when implementing these changes.

Alex Maulden researching sustainable energy at Camp Fiver this summer.

Read more

SHARE

Alex Marrone ’16 is majoring in molecular biology at Colgate and intends to go to medical school after graduation. Her education isn’t limited to what she is learning in the classroom, however, and in her two years at Colgate she has taken the opportunity to get involved in a variety of things, from doing taxes through the VITA program, to playing in the Wind Ensemble, to volunteering at an animal shelter. This summer, she wanted to learn even more about the surrounding community and about the organizations that are doing work in the community, so she applied to the Upstate Institute Summer Field School.

Alex Marrone ’16 is working with the Partnership for Community Development in Hamilton this summer.

Read more

SHARE

Kennedy Pope ’15 is working with the Oneida County Historical Society to further their mission to “collect, preserve and make accessible the past heritage of Oneida County and the upper Mohawk River Valley.”  Through the Summer Field School, Kennedy is organizing and researching objects in their collection related to marketing and is developing a website that will provide a retrospective look at Genesee Street and the businesses that have operated on the street in the past.

Kennedy Pope ’15 is working with documents related to the history of business in Utica with the Oneida County Historical Society

Read more

SHARE

Emily Luba ’16 is new to the Field School this summer, and is working with two organizations that are new as well. Emily is a double major in Peace and Conflict Studies and Geography from Vancouver, and is working with community development start-ups Waterville First and the Horned Dorset Colony.

Emily Luba ’16 provides photos for the Horned Dorset Colony in Leonardsville

Read more

SHARE