Lauren Graham is a junior majoring in AMPD and Journalism with a specialization in public relations. I am minoring in Marketing. I am involved in PRSSA and the American Marketing Association. I work at a bridal shop in Toledo, Ohio, where I have worked off and on since high school. I live off campus with 3 girls, one who plays tennis for BGSU, one who golfs for BGSU and another girl who I work with. I am originally from Sylvania, Ohio. I am in the process of starting my online internship for StyleHop.com, a fashion blogging website. I am also in the process of starting a bridal blog for the bridal shop I currently work for.
International Studies Program: What was your major and minor at BGSU? What year did you graduate? Brittany M. Jacoby: My major was International Studies and my minor was Political Science. I graduated in 2009. ISP: Did you have any internships as a student at BGSU? If so, where at and what was that experience like? BMJ: I […]
Honorable Mention: Benta Davis I will never forget that smell. The feeling of being surrounded in a hallway only a child would feel comfortable in. Organized, they wouldn’t dare, it would take away from the experience of it all. Then again, what would this experience be with out it? This is not my first time feeling […]
Honorable Mention: Lauren Rex “When in Genoa…on the way to Rome” While studying abroad in Spain for eight months, I decided to stay for Christmas break and travel. My friend Benta and I knew we both wanted to stay over the break, but we weren’t sure where to go. About a week before we were […]
Third Place: Christina Ingle I never dreamed that one day I would be able to come home from college during breaks to great a spunky, intelligent Guatemalan boy whom I would refer to as my brother. For the average American family, my story is extremely atypical, but heartwarming nonetheless. At the ripe age of 12, […]
Second Place: Dorothy Mayne (RPCV Madagascar 2008-2011) June 2010 Beating Algeria Madagascar is full of World Cup excitement, and it’s not been lost on me. My students at the high school in Ambanja are full of end-of-the-school-year excitement, which is, again, not lost on me. On Wednesday, all of the students at the high school […]
First Place: Leah Anne Lantzy One time I invited my friends over to my host family’s house in Costa Rica. We all suffered from an incessant hankering for brownies. This chocolate delight grew increasingly sweet, thick and oozy in our imaginations and conversations. My host Mom had previously O.k.ed our kitchen as the site of […]
BGSU can now count among its faculty a traditional Igbo chieftain — twice over. For his scholarly contributions to the promotion and preservation of Igbo history, culture and heritage as well as service to Nigeria and humanity, Dr. Apollos Nwauwa was recently awarded two Igbo chieftaincies, the Odenigboof Ekwe and the Ohamadike of Umuchieze. Nwauwa is chair of […]
BOWLING GREEN, O.—Since 2001, a sure sign of spring on campus has been the flowering of the cherry trees on Alumni Mall, between Harshman and Kreischer quadrangles at the corner of Alumni Drive and Mercer Road. The University community has been enjoying the delicate blossoms’ annual display thanks to the generosity of alumni and friends […]
International Studies Program: What was your major and minor at BGSU? What year did you graduate? Brittany M. Jacoby: My major was International Studies and my minor was Political Science. I graduated in 2009. ISP: Did you have any internships as a student at BGSU? If so, where at and what was that experience like? BMJ: […]