CrossLoop “Everyone Helps” Scholarship Recipient: Sonia von Haslingen
Noted on January 19, 2009 | By Natanya in
Sonia von Haslingen received the CrossLoop "Everyone Helps" scholarship for winter term 2009. Get to know her and then tune in for updates from her internship in Mexico.
My name is Sonia von Haslingen and I am 23 years old. My passion for medicine and foreign cultures started when I was very young, while watching the news coverage of the aftermath of the Ethiopian famine. It was then that I decided I wanted to become a travelling doctor. In college, I decided to continue the Spanish studies I had started in high school while also taking…
Margaret (Maggie) Davis, University of Oregon, Casa de los Angeles in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, Winter 2009 I was raised in Eugene, Oregon and received all of my education from kindergarten to college within a a one-mile radius. I have an appreciation for my community and have worked in public schools and with volunteer organizations as a tutor, coach, interpreter…
Each year, the U.S. Embassy sponsors several museum internships in Peru. The announcement for summer 2009 internships has just been posted. Application deadline February 28. Project options for summer 2009 are in the following areas: Marketing, Textile Conservation, Education/Interpretation, Fundraising/Development, Conservation and Restoration, Metal Conservation, Museography, and Registration and Cataloguing.