Here and There in Summer 2006: Fox Students
Over the summer, Fox students, staff and faculty traveled across the United States and around the world to complete prestigious internships and exchange ideas with colleagues. See stories below.
When in Rome … study globalization
At the end of the spring semester, most students were planning their trips to the shore, but Kara Rosenberg, an international business and marketing double major at The Fox School of Business and Management, was not among them.
Rosenberg was devising a plan to start a research project on immigration in Italy.
For six weeks this summer, Rosenberg has been observing and studying the domestic and immigrant perspective in northern Italy, Rome and Sicily.
“The idea came to me while sitting in Lisa Calvano’s “Business Ethics” class last spring, and she mentioned she was doing research abroad,” said Rosenberg, a rising senior.
After writing a proposal for her project, Rosenberg was granted $2,000 by the Undergraduate Research Incentive Fund in the Vice Provost’s Office to conduct the research.
“It is very interesting to see how immigrants integrate and how a nation becomes more capable of facilitating globalization,” Rosenberg said. “Several factors facilitate globalization and the multinationalization of business, but I believe many of them are inherently cultural.”
From street merchants to university professors, Rosenberg has been conducting interviews with a variety of experts on her topic. She has spoken with both legal and illegal immigrants, as well as faculty members from the University of Rome, La Sapienza, with which Temple recently established an academic and cultural exchange.
Once her research is complete, Rosenberg will form her final paper.
“I will probably focus on the importance of intercultural sensitivity in international management situations, particularly with multinational corporations,” Rosenberg said. “I could never do this project with out the guidance of Lisa Calvano [teaching assistant], and Bob Giacalone [professor of human resources], and the support of Kim Cahill [associate director of the IGMS and CIBER] and Arvind Phatak [executive director of the IGMS and CIBER],” she added.
Doing good work Down Under
Few tales of vacation adventures could rival those of Darya Gorlova. Braving the untamed jungles of New Zealand for four weeks, this sophomore marketing major volunteered as a wildlife and habitat conservationist.
Gorlova’s interest in the intrepid expedition was first piqued when a representative for International Student Volunteers spoke in one of her classes last semester. ISV offers several travel programs combining volunteer work, recreation and education.
“I’m an outdoors person, and I’ve always wanted to go to New Zealand,” Gorlova said. “The idea of going there to help conserve their unique wildlife sounded exhilarating.”
For the first two weeks, along with 41 other volunteers, Gorlova helped plant more than 1,000 trees in a community for the elderly and around an elementary school.
Gorlova also volunteered to teach elementary school students and residents in a home for the mentally disabled about the environment and about planting trees.
She spent the second two weeks of her trip exploring New Zealand and enjoying thrilling activities such as skydiving, white water rafting and hiking the Franz Joseph Glacier. Gorlova also spent a night in a Marae, the community center for the local Maori people.
“What made the trip so rewarding was ISV’s combination of volunteer work, cultural experience, and tourism and adventure,” Gorlova said.
