Beyond campus

ADVENTURES ABROAD Think STEM majors and study abroad can’t coexist? Not here! Each year Mudd sends students all over the globe, from Australia to Ankara, Martinique to mainland China, and everywhere in between. Our study abroad office will work with you to locate a program with strong academics and your choice of living environment. Best of all, your financial aid travels with you, so your family’s contribution to your college education remains exactly the same. Additional abroad opportunities are available through Global Clinic. Here’s

the formula: take HMC’s cutting-edge Clinic program, toss in a partner- ship with students from a foreign university (from Iceland, Singapore and the like), hop on a plane to the partner school and collaborate. Recent projects found Mudders decontaminating arsenic-polluted groundwater and harnessing wasted automobile energy. You’ll approach problems from a multinational perspective, resulting in more innovative solutions as well as great summer vacations. Mudders also travel abroad for many other school-sponsored projects,

whether it’s exploring the home territory of Dickens and Hardy in Profes- sors Groves’ and Eckert’s literature class, presenting mathematical biology research about cataract surgery at a conference in Kenya, or designing a solar water purifier using only basic tools.

BREAKING OUT OF THE BUBBLE A STEM background enables you to contribute to the community in some very special ways. In addition to the myriad volunteer opportunities that exist at The Claremont Colleges, there are a few programs unique to Mudd that allow you to use your passion for math and science. Through a newly founded Homework Hotline, you can provide help to local students with math homework. Science Bus takes you into neighboring elementary schools with hands-on (and fun!) science lessons, and culminates in a campus-wide Science Day for 4th, 5th and 6th graders. The FIRST Mentors Club gives you a chance to guide high school

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students as they design and build a robot. Even the chemistry depart- ment’s lead contamination lab partners with elementary school students who assist with sample collection and watch Mudders do the lab experi- mentation and analysis.