F&M Stories

At Franklin & Marshall College, we connect our students with extraordinary opportunities so they can accomplish great things in their four years on campus. Here are just a few of their stories.

08/24/2022

Actuarial Internships Predict Health, Business Risk

The Franklin & Marshall student experience doesn't stop when the academic year ends. From internships in Lancaster to travel around the world and research across the country, our students...Franklin & Marshall College offers students a hands-on education...

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08/19/2022

F&M Senior Explores 'Core Spirit' of Today's Engineering Studies

The Franklin & Marshall student experience doesn't stop when the academic year ends. From internships in Lancaster to travel around the world and research across the country, our students...Math major explores engineering for humanity as a student...

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08/17/2022

A Summer in Senegal

In summer 2020, Franklin & Marshall senior Rokhaya Ba was issued a passport for the very first time. The New Yorker had dreams of visiting her parent's home country, Senegal, to help address...F&M senior public health major Rokhaya Ba interned in...

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08/09/2022

F&M Professor Reflects on Pandemic's Personal Cost

In three years, the pandemic has left a wake of loss felt far beyond the campus borders of Franklin & Marshall College. Alumni Professor of Creative Writing and Belles Lettres Nicholas...A Q&A with F&M professor Nicholas Montemarano about his recent...

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08/04/2022

Applying His Public Health Studies to Warehouse Internship

The Franklin & Marshall student experience doesn't stop when the academic year ends. From internships in Lancaster to travel around the world and research across the country, our students...Franklin & Marshall College offers students a hands-on education...

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08/03/2022

Students Uncover Lancaster's Secret Side

With its bucolic landscape and Amish roots, many visitors to Lancaster assume the region's past is nothing less than virtuous. But a group of Franklin & Marshall College students is uncovering...A group of students is uncovering a more salacious...

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07/29/2022

By Land and By Sea: Interns Advocate for Chesapeake Bay

On a hot July morning, Andrew Canjura found himself at the helm of a canoe on the Chesapeake Bay. See a day in the life of F&M students interning at the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, an independent conservation organization dedicated to saving the Bay.

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07/27/2022

Students Aiming for the Stars

An F&M student busily helped their professor with final calculations to one of JWST's first projects that went up this week.

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07/22/2022

F&M Junior Wants to Be Where the Wild Things Are

Not many people are spending their summer tube-feeding an infant opossum or vaccinating a raccoon, but for biology major Mary Adams, it’s exactly the experience she was seeking.

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07/19/2022

Students Help Program Robots for Dangerous Mission in Ukraine

The “Jackal” rolls quietly across Hartman Green, its four-wheeled boxy shape with wires, lights and twin dome-shaped GPS antennas catch the attention of a passerby: “What is it?”

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07/14/2022

F&M Athletes Represent USA at Maccabiah Games

Three Franklin & Marshall student-athletes have been selected to compete on the global stage at this month's Maccabiah Games, held July 12 through 26 in Israel. Rising junior Jaclyn Feit will...Three Franklin & Marshall student-athletes have been...

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07/11/2022

Prominent Fashion Designer Internship is Perfect Fit for F&M Senior

As a child, Siwen Shen would craft collages made of models and clothes she found in fashion magazines. Now, she’s studying the anthropology of fashion while interning with world-famous designer Diane von Furstenburg.

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