Author: Brooke Williard | Major: Accounting | Semester: Summer 2024 Spelunking through caves full of Mayan artifacts, climbing a waterfall during an eight-hour hike, and petting both a shark and a stingray: all things I never imagined doing while studying abroad. The...
Belize
Best Friends, Burritos, Belikins, Belize!
Author: Anna Mays | Major: Food Sciences | Semester: Summer 2024 In high school I took an AP Human Geography class. The class explored the development of societies globally. I was especially fascinated with learning about how impactful education is in advancing a...
A Belizean Blog: My Summer Interning Abroad in Dangriga, Belize
Author: Kaitlyn Guest | Major: Supply Chain Management | Semester: Summer 2023 Hello, I’m Kaitlyn Guest, a junior Supply Chain Management major with an Economics minor. I spent two months of my summer in Dangriga, Belize, alongside nine other U of A students. Our...
A Summer in Belize: Where Interning meets Adventure
Author: Connor O'Neill | Majors: Economics, Finance | Semester: Summer 2023 Hello everyone! My name is Connor O’Neill, and I am about to start my senior year as an economics and finance major. I spent the summer in Belize participating in an internship with a...
An Unbelizeable Summer
Author: Brady Voss | Majors: Finance, Marketing | Semester: Summer 2023 Hey everyone! My name is Brady Voss, and I am a current senior, double majoring in finance and marketing with a minor in economics. This summer, I had the opportunity to start my research while...
Economics Research in Belize
Author: Sergio Lopez | Major: Economics | Semester: Summer 2022 Hello, my name is Sergio Lopez, I am a Walton student of Economics, I traveled to Dangriga Belize for 2 months in order to do a research project, the mentioned project will also help me complete my honors...
Small Business Development, Digital Presence, and Tourism in Belize
Author: Abby Teague | Major: Management | Semester: Summer 2022 My name is Abby Teague, and my major is Small Business Management with a minor in Marketing. I had the amazing opportunity of commencing research this summer in Belize. Within Belize, I had an internship...
Internship + Study Abroad = Best Summer of Your Life
Author: Drew Patterson | Majors: Management and Marketing | Semester: Summer 2022 This Summer I had the opportunity to spend eight weeks interning for Peacework and the Belize Tourism Industry Association. The team I was on worked as small business consultants for the...
Seeing the (Rain)Forest through the Trees
Author: Ana Pendergast | Major: International Business Economics | Semester: Summer 2022 This summer I had the amazing privilege to study in Dangriga, Belize through an 8-week service-learning internship and thesis program facilitated by Peacework and the University...
Eight Weeks On the Inside of Belize Tourism
Author: Thomas Consolino | Major: International Business | Semester: Summer 2022 Hello y’all! My name is Thomas Consolino, and I am a senior at the University of Arkansas studying International Business. This past summer I took part in an eight-week program called...