ADVENTURES AT FRANKLIN

Welcome to a new installation in this series! My Spring 2021 Academia Travel gave me the opportunity of a lifetime to get to know this sustainable yet tourist town, Zermatt, inside and out. This is definitely my favorite article to write so far, as now Zermatt has a special spot in my heart.  While spending a week there with my classmates I was able to experience snowshoeing, sledding (though I.. lasted a minute), hiking to village towns such as Zmutt, and even more hiking after that. We got to visit the Julen farm and a local dairy factory as well that contributes largely to the hotel and food industr y in Zermatt! I’ll have to tell you more, as a summary does not do the city justice! A Brief History of Zermatt I was able to visit the Matterhorn Museum, which contained the entire historical development of Zermatt, including a real-size house that was made back in the 1800s, antique hiking equipment from past climbers, and the rope that broke in the tragedy of the First Ascent of M...

  FUS continues its promise of giving students an Academic Travel experience with the Spring 2021 session, where students are still able to learn and explore in different parts of Switzerland! I was able to summarize a handful of the travels through the responses from a few of my peers. Here are their stories in their own words. Interviewee #1: Arpi Khachatryan is planning on getting a double major in History and CLCS and minoring in Film Studies and Applied Mathematics.  What is your Academic Travel Course, and where did you go? CLCS230T: Science fiction and film. (She went to St. Moritz, Switzerland!) Describe your course in 1 sentence. Exploration of sci-fi literature, films, and theory through the lenses of cultural studies. What was your favorite moment/activity over travel? All of it! Cause we were making films ourselves. What was the best food you ate? I'm not sure about the name but it was some sort of a salad with cool sauce. (very fair) Interviewee #2: Spencer Landry...

Welcome to or welcome back to Adventures at Franklin ! Another Academic Travel period has come and gone, which means an  Adventures at Franklin tradition returns: Academic Travel Stories (Fall 2020 edition). Due to the second wave, many travels had to stay in Switzerland. Nonetheless, students were able to travel in some capacity! In this post, I interviewed several people from several Academic Travels to share their stories and adventures from their travels.  Interviewee #1: Lily Pifferini-Carter from Bend, Oregon. I'm an Environmental Science Major with an SJS minor graduating in Spring 2021.  What is your Academic Travel Course, and where did you go? My academic travel this semester was Alpine Ecosystems with Professor Hale and we went to Chamonix, France   Describe your course in 1 sentence. In this course we learn about, and often see with our own eyes, the ecosystem changes that are occurring in the European Alps and seek to understand what this magnificent la...