Embracing opportunities that lead to innovation and exploration has been integral to the Muhlenberg experience for decades, as evidenced by these alumni and the transformative moments they enjoyed as students.
Muhlenberg students always have learned by doing. Research opportunities across disciplines allow our undergraduates to create knowledge, collaborate closely with faculty and learn techniques that prepare them for success in graduate and professional school. More than half of students choose to study abroad, immersing themselves in another culture and discovering the possibilities that lie outside their comfort zones. Professional experiences — internships, on-campus employment, performances, conferences, exhibits — pave the way for meaningful careers.
Starting this fall, students will be required to participate in hands-on, experiential learning as part of Muhlenberg’s new curriculum. But, as evidenced in the stories that follow, embracing opportunities that lead to innovation and exploration has been integral to the Muhlenberg experience for decades. The five alumni profiled here are just a small sampling of those who’ve had transformative experiences at Muhlenberg that directly connect to the success they’ve enjoyed after graduating.
“We’ve been doing this for as long as I’ve been at Muhlenberg,” says President Kathleen Harring, “and it is this tradition that provides the deep foundation and perspective to know how to make these experiences work really well.”
Kristen Yngve ’00
FROM helping to build the very first Muhlenberg.edu as a student worker TO 27 years of collaborating with clients on branding and design via her own creative agency
FROM a short-term study abroad course about economic development in Bangladesh TO Working as CEO of AB Bank Rwanda, which is focused on supporting small farmers
FROM a course on the transatlantic slave trade that inspired a summer research project TO a Ph.D. dissertation on intimate connections between enslaved people in Colombia and Spain
FROM Conducting research throughout his time at Muhlenberg TO Election to the National Academy of Sciences for his research using zebrafish as a human disease model
First- and second-grade students at Allentown’s Muhlenberg Elementary School participate in 45-minute classes during the school day taught by Muhlenberg College students interested in dance education.
