Spring break for Abington students—travel, research, civic engagement
The days of rowdy spring breaks in sunny locations have all but disappeared as today's college students spend their college break volunteering, researching, and traveling in the States and abroad -
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Ten students traveled to Washington D.C. for the preparation and distribution of food to the homeless population in the city
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A class of students flew to England to study the Neolithic Circles. The students used Sarum College in Salisbury as their home base as they explored the Stonehenge and Avebury monuments, the Iron Hill fort at Old Sarum, and the town of Glastonbury. See video. -
Seventeen Abington students went to the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia, to measure radio emissions from the Milky Way. They also used 40-foot diameter radio telescope in a radio quiet zone on the observatory campus.
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A separate class of criminal justice students (see picture, upper right) visited England to study sports and crime on an international level. They attended a number of sporting events to get a behind-the-scenes look at security. See video. -
Ten students travelled to Germany to join 10 German students from University of Applied Sciences to work collaboratively on a seminar, "Simulation of a Hospital Management System" (right, with blue bear)
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Twenty students from an Introduction to Relativity course visited Dr. Ronald Mallett (black coat, right), professor of physics at the University of Connecticut. Mallett is developing a working time machine and is the author of "Time Traveler".
