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Student Activities

Recent Internships

Academic/Research -

  • Adam Kent `08 (Madison, Wi) worked with Professor Karine Moe who, with support of a Keck grant studied the effect of school finance reform on residential sorting and student achievement.
  • Xi Luo `09 (Wuhan, China) worked with Professor Raymond Robertson to develop a theoretic modelof the effects of tariff changes on displacement and wages and applied the model to Mexico.
  • Jayant Gokhale `09 (Pune, India) worked with Professor Liang Ding researching of the efficiency of foreign exchange market.
  • Giang Ho '04 (Hanoi, Vietnam) held an internship with the Journal of Economic Perspectives as a Research Assistant.
  • Veselin Atanasov '05 (Bulgaria), Erika Molina '05 (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and Gaurav Ahluwalia '04 (New Delhi, India) held internships with Tim Taylor, managing editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives, developing an economics textbook.
  • Ruchira Jha '03 (New Delhi, India) held an internship with the Journal of Economic Perspectives.
  • Veselin Atanasov '05 (Bulgaria) is conducting research funded by the Keck Foundation under Professor Vasant Sukhatme. His research is on the topic of growth prospects of Central and Eastern European economies in transition.
  • Sher Ali Tareen '05 (Pakistan) won a Lilly Summer Research Award in 2003. His research was conducted with Professor Vasant Sukhatme and was entitled "The Status of Women and Demographic Behavior in South Asia: India and Pakistan."
  • Gaurav Ahluwalia '04 (New Delhi, India), working with Professor Raymond Robertson, won a Lilly Summer Research Award in 2002. His paper was entitled "The Changing Nature of Work: Examining the Effects of the Assembly Industry from Mexico to Macalester."

Business -

  • Azamat Sagatov '05 (Kazakhstan) was a Software Engineer in Web Development for Siebel Systems Inc.
  • Ben Van Thorre '04 was a Neurological Consultant with Medtronic Inc.
  • Peter Hamburge '03 (St. Paul, MN) was a Consultant with Medtronic Inc.
  • Clark Boyesen '03 (Eugene, OR) held a Business Internship with Tek Products.
  • Nick Kraemer '03 (Delano, MN) was an NWA Cargo Intern with Northwest Airlines.
  • Joshua Fogt '03 (Minneapolis, MN) was a Crop Nutrition Intern with Cargill, Inc.
  • Michael Helfgott '00 (Washington D.C.) held an internship with the law firm of McDermott, Will & Emory/Carnelutti in Milan, Italy. Michael will soon attend John Marshall Law School in Chicago.

Financial -

  • Jayany Gokhale `09 (Pune, India) interned at Citigroup in Minneapolis.
  • Hiroyuki Miyake `09 (Tokyo, Jaan) interned at Merrill Lynch in Minneapolis.
  • Viet Hoang `08 interned at Sowood in Boston.
  • Andrew Mykleton `08 (Islo, Norway) interned at Compete Inc.
  • Victor Abakarov '05 (Jerusalem, Israel and Kerch, Ukraine) held internships with both Merrill Lynch St. Paul and Morgan Stanley as a Finance Advisor.
  • Will Moeller '05 (New Ulm, Minnesota) was a credit analyst at Wells Fargo Bank.
  • Martins Blums '05 held internships with both Mitchell Real Estate, Inc. and Salomon Smith Barney as an Administrative Assistant and Finance Analyst, respectively.
  • Marius Hansen '05 was a Financial Consultant Intern with Salomon Smith Barney / Citigroup.
  • Neerav Mathur '05 held a Finance Internship with Morgan Stanley.
  • Nathaniel Abbott '05 was a Financial Analyst Intern with Merrill Lynch St. Paul.
  • Munem Alidina '05 was a Finance Intern with Morgan Stanley.
  • Ivan Merev '04 (Plovdiv, Bulgaria) was a Financial Advisor Intern with both Merrill Lynch St. Paul and Morgan Stanley.
  • Irina Asmolova '04 (Moscow, Russia) worked with Compete Inc. as a Junior Analyst and with Morgan Stanley as a Financial Advisor Intern.
  • Asif Islam '04 (Nairobi, Kenya) was a Data and Financial Documentation Intern with Community Reinvestment Fund.
  • Camila Gonzalez '04 (Bogota, Colombia) was a Finance Intern with Morgan Stanley.
  • Edward Donkor '04 (Accra, Ghana) held a Finance internship with Morgan Stanley.
  • Tomas Peshkatari '04 (Tirana, Albania) held positions at Jeffery Slocum & Associates and Minnesota Independent School Forum as an Investment Consultant / Research Assistant and Web Designer, respectively.
  • Tanzeen Syed '04 (Bangladesh) worked as an Investment, Policy & Strategy, and Global Asset Allocation Group Intern for ELCA Board of Pensions.
  • Kostadin Krastev '04 (Sofia, Bulgaria) was a Financial Advisor Intern with Merrill Lynch Private Client.
  • Heather McDonough '04 (Lake Elmo, MN) held a Finance Internship with Open Your Heart.
  • Erland Herfindahl '03 (Benson, MN) held an internship with Merrill Lynch St. Paul.
  • Alexandra Leaney '03 held a position with Prudential Securities as a Portfolio Research Intern.
  • Kagabo Ngiruwonsanga '03 (Rwanda) was an Actuarial Pricing Intern with MetLife Auto & Home.
  • Dessislav Vassilev '03 (Bulgaria) was a Trader Support Intern with Split Rock.

Government -

  • Erika Molina '05 (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and Andrew Korsberg '05 () held internships with the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development's Dislocated Worker Program.
  • Andrew Goodman-Bacon '05 (Ann Arbor, Michigan) and Rohini D'Silva '05 (Bombay, India) were program planning aides with the Youth Division of Ramsey County Workforce Solutions.
  • David Chiu '03 (New York City, NY) was a Joint Domestic Abuse Intern with the Ramsey County Prosecutor's Office.

Non-Profit/Political -

  • Linh To '07 (Vietnam) was a commercial program intern at the Eastside Neighborhood Development Company.
  • Andrew Goodman-Bacon '05 (Ann Arbor, Michigan) held a legislative internship with Representative Phyllis Kahn at the Minnesota House of Representatives and was a research intern with the National Youth Employment Coalition in Washington, D.C.
  • Anna Sumchenko '05 (Ukraine) was a Green School Audit Project Assistant for the Sierra Club.
  • Nonhlanhla Hlongwane '04 was a Constituency Organizer for African Immigrant Communities for DFL Senator Paul Wellstone.
  • Tariq Islam '03 (Nairobi, Kenya) was a Web Software Developer for Minnesota Public Radio.
  • Elli Stephanede '04 (Athens, Greece) held a legislative internship with US Congresswoman Betty McCollum.
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