This summer over 50 TWC students reached out to immigrants in the metropolitan Washington area tutoring young Ethiopians and Latinos, helping Latin American domestic violence victims obtain visas and volunteering at a Hispanic festival. They were all participants of the Immigrant Rights Civic Engagement project. The education component included presentations by speakers from the Asian, Latino and African immigrant communities as well as an expert on immigration policy. | View Full Article
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: | View Full Article
TWC welcomed another class of alumni to their family of over 50,000 worldwide during summer 2012 commencement, which took place at the Blinken Auditorium. Celebrating TWC's 50,000 Alumni | View Full Article
Summer 2012 interns were given the exclusive opportunity to attend a White House panel, hosted by the White House Office of Public Engagement, that discussed policy and other initiatives regarding President Obama's Presidential Policy Directive (PPD) on sub-Saharan Africa. | View Full Article
Current students and TWC alums of the PA State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) attended a dinner reception at TWC headquarters on Wednesday, July 25th. Speakers included: 1. Mike Smith, president of TWC 2. John Cavanaugh, chancellor of PA State System of Higher Education 3. Barbara Bowker, vice president of marketing, Pennsylvania State Employees Credit Union (PSECU) | View Full Article
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. | View Full Article
The last meeting of the Animal Welfare Civic Engagement Project featured Shakela Brown, community educator at the Washington Humane Society, and her German Shepherd, Ryder. | View Full Article
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