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.
08/19/2022
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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.
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.
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?”
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...
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.
07/06/2022
Six Students' Quests for Summer Fieldwork and Experience
What does a Franklin & Marshall College student do during the summer? Many take the 15 weeks before the start of their next academic year to dive into the fields and industries they're studying in the classroom.