Muhlenberg College

The Class of 2028 student is using skills from both her accounting and media and communication majors to help with bookkeeping and social media for a local pool company near her hometown in Maryland.

The media and communication and film studies double major is building toward a future in the music industry.

Each Muhlenberg Resident Advisor (RA) is a strong leader with sound critical thinking and interpersonal skills, taking on a highly-responsible position. To be selected for the competitive role, RAs must take part in a selection, recruitment and training processes, demonstrate of sense of care for others, maintain a 2.5 grade point average, and model good conduct.

After a summer searching the job market, environmental science and sustainability studies double major Anna Shigo '24 began her role as the open space coordinator for Carbon County, Pennsylvania. Now she's working to preserve the environment she grew up in, just north of Muhlenberg.

Esther Schlossberg '20, a project coordinator in a Yale lab focused on opioid-use disorder and infectious diseases, landed that job after shadowing there as a student. Now, she's hosting current students through the Career Center's Externship Program.

For a month during winter break last year, Rotondo '24 had the opportunity to work as a rare disease research assistant with Rebecca Wingert, a class of 1999 Muhlenberg graduate and the Gallagher Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Notre Dame.

Senior Alex Wagner worked full-time last summer as a Community Organizer for Massachusetts Attorney General candidate Andrea Campbell. He used that experience to found an organization designed to encourage students to both register to vote and to help elect Josh Shapiro as the new governor of Pennsylvania. On November 2, Wagner, co-director Alexandra Schamberger '26 and others in the Muhlenberg College Democrats student organization hosted First Lady Biden and U.S. Representatives Wild and Dean for an event on campus.

Cohen worked as an intern for Senator Steve Santarsiero on his Pennsylvania state senate re-election campaign this summer.

Sulzner had the opportunity to job shadow three medical specialists over the summer. including an inpatient neurologist, outpatient neurologist, and a physician assistant.

The nonprofit milk bank provides pasteurized donor human milk to fragile babies throughout the Northeastern U.S.

Jackson took a six-week accelerated EMS course over the summer, where she learned patient care skills and obtained her certification as an EMT.

Arianna Tilley '22 immersed herself in the arts in Ithaca, New York this summer.

Kovit is one of six student journalists from campuses across the nation who will use their storytelling skills to write about Hillel happenings.

Larissa Dowling '22, who has worked for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline for a year, is now training others to chat online with people experiencing mental health struggles.

Muhlenberg track and field jumper Lindsay Press writes about her summer physical therapy shadowing experience.

Justin Axelrod '20 spent four days all over Jersey City, New Jersey, during his externship with real-estate developer Paul Silverman '78.

Sydney Holliday '23 drew on her improv background for an externship with theatre educator Robert Wagner '07.

Rhiannon Harwi '20 completed an externship at the Allentown campus of human resources company ADP with Deb Clay-Alston '98 P'14.

Caroline Hogg '20 landed a summer role with the Madison Square Garden Company after learning about the position through a trip with Muhlenberg's Career Center.

After twice working as a summer analyst, Wells Fargo offered Gabrielle Neuman '20 a full-time role for after graduation.

Muhlenberg's Digital Learning Assistants (DLAs) partner with faculty and students to advance technological use on campus.

The Institute earned an A in the 2018 national rating published by Nate Silver's polling analysis website FiveThirtyEight.