As COVID-19's effects were rippling globally last spring, student internships were among the dominoes that started to thud — significantly shortened or in some cases entirely canceled.
As the Undergraduate Chair of the Materials Science and Engineering Department at the University of Pennsylvania, my calendar was filled with Zoom meetings with students who wanted to see if I could help. As a former McKinsey partner, I have many corporate connections and they wanted to know if I could introduce them to my network as they scrambled for new opportunities.
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