TWC welcomed Section Chief of the FBI's Financial Crimes Section, Timothy A. Gallagher. Programs who heard from the seasoned FBI employee included: Law and Criminal Justice, Legal Externship and Business and Global Trade.

Students learned that the Financial Crimes Section is comprised of 5 units including:

Summer interns from the Science, Technology and Society (STS) program presented their research findings via abstract posters at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) headquarters located in Silver Spring, MD. The interns displayed their abstracts by concisely describing the objectives, methods, results and conclusions that the Abstract Committee evaluated on both the quality of the intern’s work throughout the semester as well as the verbal presentation. Each student was required to detail:

Summer 2012 interns at TWC were given the opportunity to attend an unusual event on the Middle East, hearing from four very different voices than those regularly heard at Washington forums.

Once a semester, TWC interns have the opportunity to hear from some of the leading members in the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors during TWC's Roundtable on Philanthropy and Social Responsibility. The panelists, who attended the July 23rd event, came from a variety of backgrounds but still shared one major thing in common: the desire to help nonprofit realms like corporate citizenship and philanthropy evolve to their full potential.

Tara Sonenshine, Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, spoke to the International Affairs Program on Monday, July 16th in the Dean Acheson Auditorium at the Department of State. She discussed the importance of making people to people connections between the United States and other countries when holding a position in the field of diplomacy, as well as the role of social media in the Arab Spring revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa.

Becky Lee, a D.C. lawyer and the founder of a domestic violence nonprofit called Becky's Fund, spoke to the Law and Criminal Justice (LCJ) program about the fight against domestic violence. Ms. Lee became interested in domestic violence after sitting in a college lecture taught by a criminal attorney who specialized in the acquittal of battered women imprisoned for killing their abusers in self defense.

Jessica Glazer, Associate Director of Career Programs & Education at John Hopkins Carey Business School, spoke to the Summer 2012 Professional Postgraduate Development Program (PPDP) on the topic of Positive Psychology and how the field can help both your career search and professional development. Positive Psychology is a very recent field discovered in 1998.

Dr. Chad Moutray, chief economist for the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), spoke to the Business and Global Trade Program at TWC's Residential Academic Facility. He provided an update on the economic status of the manufacturing industry and the high demand for skilled employees. He encouraged interested TWC students to look into high-skilled trade jobs, as well as careers in the fields of science, technology and math.

The highly anticipated Media and Communications Panel, "Careers in Communications," took place at the Residential Academic Facility. Each semester, the Media and Communications Program Advisors, Jaclyn Sheridan and Jacki Banks, recruit several speakers from a series of communications backgrounds to speak to TWC interns who are intersted in pursuing a career in communications, PR or marketing.

Summer 2012 Panelists

Summer interns had one of the most highly anticipated programming events of the semester starting at The National Housing Center Atrium.