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Zoe Neely ’25 has long dabbled in social media, all the while considering a shift into marketing. When the right opportunity finally presented itself, she took full advantage. This summer she is a marketing intern on the syndication team at NBC.

Communications Office writer Evan Robinson ’23 recently spoke with Ariel Adams, Â鶹¹ú²úAV’s new director of student activities, who previously held similar roles at SUNY Potsdam and the College of Mount Saint Vincent. The two discussed Adams’ career path and her thoughts on starting out at Â鶹¹ú²úAV. Below are excerpts from their conversation.

While traversing the scenic peaks of the Adirondacks or canoeing through quiet backcountry streams, few first-year students are thinking about algorithms and linear optimization. But these mathematical ideas are as much a part of Â鶹¹ú²úAV orientation trips as any pack or paddle: they ensure that incoming students have the most worthwhile experience possible.

Life-threatening diseases could become easier to detect thanks to a Â鶹¹ú²úAV student-faculty research team and its partnership with an internationally recognized biomedical research institute here in Utica.

Each year, a core of highly motivated Â鶹¹ú²úAV students can be found taking steps toward a career in healthcare. What are our pre-health students doing this summer? How did they land their internships, and what have they learned? And how does it all fit into what they envision for their futures?

Among the innumerable negative consequences of the pandemic, a few unexpected positives emerged. Just ask Joseph Craven, Joe Gennaco, and Robert Job, former finance executives who — in the summer of 2020 — created an organization to help students gain valuable experience in the field.

In the stagnant air of subway stations, unnoticed by countless commuters, the sounds of street musicians ornament the harsh rumble of passing trains. Some of these performers go viral for their abilities; many more remain unseen and unheard. But how exactly do they contribute to the fabric of the communities they inhabit?

Throughout history, art has repeatedly pushed for change by unsettling conventional perspectives on social issues. This summer, a team of Â鶹¹ú²úAV students hopes to accomplish something similar with their Levitt Center research project by portraying the lived experience of disability through theatre.

If you walked around campus on a nice day this summer, you would likely have seen a pair of Â鶹¹ú²úAV students hammering metal tags onto trees. You might well have seen them doing it over, and over, and over again.

Artificial intelligence and climate change are among the very foremost hot-button issues of today. This summer, a project by Adam Koplik ’25 and Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Heather Kropp is using one to explore the other—by employing machine learning to measure vegetation change in the Arctic.