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Summer Internship Spotlights 2014:
Cora McGehee - LSU AgCenter Plant Diagnostic Lab
Cora McGehee, a senior in the School of Plant and Environmental Soil Sciences from Baton Rouge, is working at the LSU AgCenter's Plant Diagnostic Lab this summer. She is helping identify plant problems and says this summer she is seeing the disease phytophothora showing up in many plants. While she is learning a lot and enjoys the work, she is looking forward to a career working with thriving plants!
Theresa Crupi - Natural Resource Group with New York Parks Department
Theresa Crupi is a 2014 graduate in Natural Resource Ecology and Management. She is from Queens, New York and returned home to work as a saltmarsh restoration intern with the Natural Resource Group, a division within the New York City Parks Department. Theresa works with the wetlands team, and her responsibilities include mapping and collecting information to evaluate potential restoration opportunities throughout New York City; vegetation monitoring at several parks; assisting with post-Sandy marine debris removal field preparation, and assorted tasks using GIS. "I consider myself extremely fortunate to be working with Parks." Theresa said. "I was worried that I would arrive back home to Queens with a fervor for wetlands and have no outlet by means of work. Working with Parks thus far has been a wonderful introduction to wetlands of the mid-Atlantic, as I hope to continue work on city-wide restoration projects in the future. It warms my heart knowing that I can to bring all that I have learned from my alma mater to the city that raised me."
Below she is pictured measuring storm debris (left) and performing an ecological assessment (right).
Bonnie Campbell - Cynthia Rose
Bonnie Campbell, a senior in Textiles, Apparel Design and Merchandising from Fort Lauderdale, Fl., is working at Cynthia Rose in New York this summer. There she is performing various hand sewing tasks; organizing and keeping inventory on fabrics and furs; editing photographs, and learning tips, tricks and Spanish from the seamstress, Rosa. She recently started attending design meetings for future collections and giving her creative input. Cynthia Rose is a collection of luxury ready-to-wear clothing and precious jewelry offering "elegance with an edge."
