Proving Grounds
Whether it’s in the lab, on the soccer field, backstage at the theater, or atop a launch pad, internships at Rollins are hands on and up close.
What It’s Like ... to Present Research at a Professional Conference (without Leaving Campus)
Go behind the scenes of Rollins’ first-ever Latin American Studies Symposium, where college students and faculty from around the country share original research and lively discourse.
What It’s Like ... to Debate a Movement That’s Changing the World
Once again, the Rollins Great Debate team takes home the trophy—and after a week of listening and learning, a whole lot more.
Liberal Arts in Action
Many of our industrious students cut their winter breaks short to participate in Intersession, a weeklong course dedicated to an intriguing topic not typically covered during the regular semester.
Clinical Trials
For a decade, an intensive shadowing program at Florida Hospital has helped prepare Rollins undergrads for careers in medicine.
Better Together
Sequencing the DNA of sea stars. Exploring authenticity in religion. Examining neurons of worms to better understand them in people. These are just a few of the more than two dozen research projects that Rollins students and professors partnered on this past summer.
Study Abroad
Water Works
Science and service converge in a Rollins field study that has helped bring clean water to the Dominican Republic for more than two decades.
Course Spotlight: The Global Economy
Students explore the economic relationship between the developed world and developing countries by partnering with a local direct-trade coffee shop.
Classes
Course Spotlight: Biosphere
Students in this core environmental studies course are learning that if you want to save the world, you have to get your hands dirty.
Course Spotlight: Film as Art
Behind the scenes of the Rollins class designed to instill a wider appreciation of films by allowing students to engage with more than 50 features, shorts, and documentaries during the Florida Film Festival.
Recovering a Hidden History
Students’ award-winning website preserves stories from an African-American newspaper published more than a century ago in Winter Park.
Undergraduate Research
DeLucia Earns Goldwater Scholarship
Alyssa DeLucia ’18 has earned a Goldwater Scholarship, a prestigious award reserved for undergraduate students who intend to pursue careers in the natural sciences, mathematics, and engineering.
Classes
4 Reasons Why a Rollins Intersession Course is a Must-Try Winter Experience
If you only take courses during fall and spring semesters, you’re missing out.
What’s the Big Idea?
Winter Park Magazine’s Randy Noles explores the Master of Liberal Studies program at Rollins College’s Hamilton Holt School.
Classes
Course Spotlight: AfroFantastic: Black Imagination and Agency in the American Experience
A new course for first-year students culminates with an exhibition at Rollins’ Cornell Fine Arts Museum.
Real Clients, Real Rewards
Five students recently earned statewide recognition for helping local clients develop strategic communication plans.
Classes
Course Spotlight: Real World Economics
Students at Rollins are getting a head start on career success while helping local high schoolers do the same.
Service Learning
Restoration With a View
From February 27 – March 5, a group of Rollins students went on an alternative spring break Immersion to Moab, Utah, for a service learning experience of a lifetime.
Upwardly Global
Provide clean water to people in the Caribbean. Teach English in Shanghai. Challenge your worldview in Namibia. That’s just a small sampling of the faculty-led field studies on tap for summer 2019.
Cool Class: Systems & Design Thinking for Social Change
A new social entrepreneurship course takes aim at finding lasting solutions to enduring social problems.
Rocket Man
Three straight internships at NASA have given Michael Gutensohn ’18 real-world experience that’s out of this world.
What It’s Like ... to Have a Famous Writer Read Your Story
Winter With the Writers gives students the chance to learn from today’s most venerable authors, and this year’s crop left a lasting impression.
Urban Explorers
Two globe-trotting Rollins grads are setting out to document how cultures in Southeast Asia approach development in their cities.
Cool Class: Job Market Boot Camp
Graduating seniors don their best business attire and get intensive training on how to excel in the global workforce.
Up & Away
This past year’s winter field studies were scattered across the world but all linked by a common objective: embracing and learning from difference to become a global leader in our ever-evolving world.
Cool Class: Physics for Future Presidents
First-year students jump at the chance to become scientifically literate, learning how things work so they can understand why they’re important.
Cool Class: Globalization
First-year students eager to dive into college get a crash course in how the world works and how they can be a part of changing the narrative.