Honors Student receives prestigious FBI internship and employment

Senior Receives Prestigious Assignments and Award

Fall 2009

Amiran Gelashvili, a senior international business major and President of Park's chapter of People to People International, was selected as a teacher leader for the People to People Ambassadors Programs held as part of a Business Summit at Columbia University, New York City, in June. He was also selected as a teacher leader for a July Leadership Summit at UCLA. Finally, Amiran recently received a letter informing him that he will receive the University Chapter Leadership Award from the People to People International Headquarters at the Board of Trustees Meeting in Las Vegas this September.

Students Earn Prominent Internships/Apprenticeships

Summer 2009

Sophomore Aiden Galarza, and senior Loren Ray Laughlin, both biology majors, and junior Chrystal Coltharp, theater design received prestigious summer internship appointments. Galarza will intern with the Biomedical Research Apprenticeship Program at Washington University in St. Louis. She has been assigned to work with the program's director of research related to Parkinson's disease and similar disorders in both animal models and humans, and will likely be working with monkeys during the internship. Laughlin will work as an environmental protection aide in the Environmental Protection Agency's Region 7 office in Kansas City, Kan, continuing an internship with the EPA she started last summer. She will assist in water monitoring and biological sampling at reference streams in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska, and will also contact landowners for permission to monitor their land and prepare written reports on background information for each monitoring site. Coltharp has accepted an apprenticeship with the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival.

Park Theatre Student Recognized by Kennedy Center

Chrystal Coltharp, a sophomore theatre design major, was recently honored by The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival. Coltharp received a special commendation for her work as the stage manager on the Park University production of "subUrbia." The KCACTF respondent who attended the September 2008 production nominated Coltharp. She recently finished an internship on the production of "The Clean House" at Kansas City's Unicorn Theatre and she has accepted an apprenticeship with the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival for summer 2009.

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