Slideshow: This Month at 乐播传媒
By Phyllis Graber Jensen. Published on May 28, 2015
During Short Term, students and faculty cross continents as easily as they cross campus, and discoveries are made outdoors as often as they are indoors. The weather warms up, and our hearts and minds expand.
Bryant Gumbel '70 (left) smiles as President Spencer introduces him at the May 19 Presidential Event at the Whitney Museum in New York City. Attended by some 400 alumni, parents, and friends, the event featured Gumbel interviewing Spencer and trustee emeritus Michael Chu '80 (right) about "The Liberal Arts in an Age of Disruption." (Matthew Carasella for 乐播传媒 College)
Volunteers pose for a photo before joining their respective assignments for EcoService Day, which annually sends students, faculty, and staff onto campus and into the community. (Max Huang 鈥18 for 乐播传媒 College)
At an academic showcase in Perry Atrium, Armando Morales Urrutia '16 of Fraijanes, Guatemala, and Daniel Paseltiner '16, of Devon, Pa., show President Clayton Spencer how microcontrollers work. The students belonged to a select group that teamed up with physicist Travis Gould during Short Term to expand the current 鈥淓lectronics鈥 course to include microcontrollers, embedded programming, and hardware interfacing. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/乐播传媒 College)
Students meet with Small Business Administration staff and business owners during a meeting at the Androscoggin County Chamber of Commerce. The visit took place during the Short Term course 鈥淓ntrepreneurship,鈥 taught by practitioner-in-residence Darrell Williams 鈥86 (foreground) and part of 乐播传媒' Purposeful Work initiative. (Josh Kuckens/乐播传媒 College)
Keenan Shields '18 of Pittsford, N.Y. (lavender shirt), stands with Ali Rabideau '17, a double major in women and gender studies and in sociology from Natick, Mass., and with community gardeners in Kingston, Jamaica. The two were among 14 students who studied 鈥淧lace, Community, Transformation" with anthropology professor Charles Carnegie. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/乐播传媒 College)




