By Mariana Velasco Huntsman students Samidha Sane ́22, Nikhil Gupta ́22 and Ayina Anyachebelu ́22, along with Eugenia Lee (University of Chicago) and Logan Herman (Carnegie Mellon), participated in the MIT Covid-19 Hackathon to produce a project that would solve challenges related to the pandemic in Africa, and won as…Read More
By Matteo Brunel I didn’t go into my semester abroad in Milan, Italy at Bocconi University with any particular expectations. I was just excited to strengthen my Italian speaking skills and spend time with my family. I arrived in Italy mid-January to spend a week in Castiglione della Pescaia, Tuscany…Read More
By Mariana Velasco Cole is a rising senior targeting German born and raised in Colorado. What is something that not a lot of people at Penn know about you? A lot of people at Penn don´t know that I am a super outdoorsy guy, I was an Eagle Scout and…Read More
By Kelly Shen Q: Just for some background: what was your Huntsman class year, your hometown, and target language? A: My name is Raina Nortick. I grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, and I graduated from Huntsman in 2003. My target language was French, and I studied abroad in Lyon. Q:…Read More
By Sanjay Kalaga Q: Just for some background: what was your Huntsman class year, your hometown, and target language? A: I was made in Hong Kong, born and raised in California. As part of the Huntsman Class of 2004, my target language was Mandarin, and I studied abroad at Tsinghua…Read More
By Mariana Velasco There is definitely something special about Penn and Huntsman – I am very glad to be a student here. Who is Joshita? I am from the suburbs of Philly, from this town called Exton in Pennsylvania. My target language is Mandarin, and I am a junior at…Read More
By Mariana Velasco If you had told me that I would spend my entire freshman summer in France, Portugal, and Morocco as a student journalist for the Pulitzer Center, I would not have believed you. Penn and Huntsman have opened a number of doors for me, and I feel so fortunate…Read More
By Emily Despinoy A combination of unique circumstances led Vinay to become a French target in Huntsman: his family moved back to the US after 5 years in France right before he was born, and not being able to understand when his parents and sister talked in French motivated him…Read More
By Couloir X. Hanson The search for identity has characterized my life, as well as my time in Huntsman. Being Korean, I’ve long been preoccupied with the question of reuniting North and South Korea. Constantly moving around while growing up allowed me to pick and choose different cultural traits. After…Read More
For me, living at ‘home’ required a student visa. Jonathan Lahdo August 29, 2018 An answer to “where are you from?” should come easily enough; and for most people, it does. After all, even if you were born, say, to immigrant parents, you can almost always think of home as Genericville,…Read More
A Comparative Analysis Cole Hancock Abstract This paper seeks to explore the different plausible and implemented applications of blockchain technology in the beef industry in two representative markets: The United States and Kenya. Previous papers discuss implementation of blockchain to the beef industry, without a focus on the variations between…Read More
By Couloir X. Hanson Two long-lost Slavic kindred spirits reunited by their passion for the Huntsman Program. “We’ve had oddly similar life trajectories from attending local public schools to American boarding schools to targeting German in the Huntsman Program. Sometimes it feels like we’re taking turns living the same life.”…Read More
I loved Comparative Politics in high school and wanted to go into business to some degree, but just didn’t know how, I think that Huntsman has given me the opportunity to explore and figure out where I want to go – I realized that it was truly the best combination.…Read More
Samidha Sane February 29, 2020 Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca Morocco. Getty Images. CASABLANCA—Ibtissam remembers the laughter, the music, the henna-stained hands of the women lined up to welcome a newlywed couple in her neighbor’s home in Safi, a city in Western Morocco: “It felt like a party.” The negafa, a…Read More
By Kelly Shen and Joshua Yang Edition by Shaila Lothe and Amjad Hamza Border Crossing Welcoming Venezuelan Immigrants into Colombia. Source: Wikimedia Commons. In the past two decades, under both President Hugo Chávez and President Nicolás Maduro of the United Socialist Party, Venezuela has experienced mounting political and economic trouble…Read More
By Mariana Velasco That is what is really cool about Huntsman – everyone is involved in different things. I think that we all pursue so many different things because we are very international and love to travel, so we have that ability to stray and try new things, but always…Read More
Transformations in the Israeli Economy By Ben Winer History of Comparative Capitalist Systems Introduction The rise of the Jewish nation state from the ashes of the Holocaust is an impressive historical feat that has captured the attention of the world. Within this stunning story lies a subplot no less transformative…Read More
There are some intricacies that you can only really see if you completely immerse yourself in local cultures – however that may be. The Huntsman Program is really good at encouraging that full immersion; not a lot of programs require you to study abroad for a semester to graduate or…Read More 
"Being in Huntsman has really pushed me to see how the world works from a much more macro level perspective. The world is not only about business nor is it only about government, so I am glad that I got to explore both." Interview By: Mariana Velasco The Basics: Aiden…Read More 
Matteo Brunel University of Pennsylvania ‘22 LITERATURE REVIEW “Belief in personal control is highly adaptive, for its presence or absence can have a significant impact on the regulation of cognition, emotion, and even physical health” — L. A. Leotti (2012) on “The Inherent Reward of Choice” According to Financial Times…Read More
