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Communications and Marketing Office student intern Anna Richardson ’26 talks here about an unusual assignment in her Politics in Latin America class with Professor Heather Sullivan.

Her Hamilton-funded research project took her to Belize. Savannah Kelly ’21 looked at the effects of the Guatemala-Belize border dispute on Belize’s indigenous communities.

Micaela Rostov ’19 has been awarded a Fulbright Binational Internship to Mexico, making her part of an effort to create mutual understanding between the private sectors in Mexico and the United States.

As the world’s economies become increasingly globalized and free, developing markets have much to gain -- and lose. Latin America is of particular interest to scholars like Adriana Kugler, professor and vice-provost for faculty at the McCourt School of Public Policy Georgetown University, who served as chief economist in the U.S. Department of Labor from 2011 to 2013, and is a member of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).

Eugene Domack, the J.W. Johnson Family Professor of Environmental Studies, will present “Impact of the Fifth Largest Earthquake in History on a Developed Latin American Country: the February 2010 Concepción ‘Teremoto’” on Thursday, April 8, at 7 p.m., in the Science Center’s Kennedy Auditorium. Domack recently returned from Chile where he did volunteer work in the aftermath of the 8.8 magnitude earthquake that struck off the coast of Maule, Chile, on Feb. 27.