Since World Learning was founded in 1932, generations of Experimenters, study abroad students, and exchange students have been carrying their cameras and camcorder (and iPhones) to document their experiences abroad. Many times the snapshots captured go unexamined until the students return home to emotionally unpack these experiences abroad. In the fall 2011 semester, Orli Fridman, academic director of [...]
The Experiment has some sweet programs, but the gelato program in Italy may be the sweetest of them all. Students on La Dolce Vita: Gelato, Food and Culture not only sample gelato from Italy’s best gelaterias, they also learn how to make their own gelato from expert chefs. Parents need not worry about their sons and daughters getting a full course [...]
Though it was love at first sight, it took 49 years for Ellen Sulkin and Stephen Kardon to tie the knot. The two first met in 1960 while Experimenters in France. At the time, Sulkin was engaged to another man back home, but this obstacle did not stop Kardon from stealing a kiss one night [...]
For most amateur photographers, loved ones are a common subject. For Experiment alumnus Mark McCormick, it took 16 years and a chance encounter half a world away to discover that the anonymous subject in one of his photographs taken on the Experiment was the love of his life. McCormick traveled with the Experiment to Germany [...]
Sometimes, hope for the future grows out of a tragic event in the past. Such was the death of Alice Rowan Swanson, killed in 2008 while riding her bicycle in Washington, DC. It led to the 2009 establishment of the Alice Rowan Swanson Fellowship. “The first thing I thought of was to establish an SIT [...]
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