{"id":25151,"date":"2025-06-16T15:28:03","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T19:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/?p=25151"},"modified":"2025-06-16T15:49:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T19:49:47","slug":"transylvania-faculty-lead-may-term-adventures-like-they-had-as-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/2025\/06\/transylvania-faculty-lead-may-term-adventures-like-they-had-as-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Transylvania faculty lead May term adventures like they had as students"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"730\" height=\"486\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2025\/06\/transylvania_study-abroad-730x486.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2025\/06\/transylvania_study-abroad-730x486.jpeg 730w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2025\/06\/transylvania_study-abroad-350x233.jpeg 350w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2025\/06\/transylvania_study-abroad-768x511.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2025\/06\/transylvania_study-abroad-810x539.jpeg 810w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2025\/06\/transylvania_study-abroad-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2025\/06\/transylvania_study-abroad.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Back in spring 2003, Ellen Furlong climbed active volcanoes, waded through surf to a bird sanctuary and studied tropical spiders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last month, she got to share the Transylvania May term study abroad experience with current Pioneers \u2014 not in Hawaii this time, but also cool: They studied monkeys in Gibraltar, among other adventures. Furlong and lecturer of accounting Melissa Coombs Mattox &#8217;07, who visited France as an undergraduate and then recently returned with a class of her own, reflected on May term travel from their dual perspective of student and teacher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"730\" height=\"457\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2025\/06\/transylvania_furlong_lava-730x457.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2025\/06\/transylvania_furlong_lava-730x457.jpeg 730w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2025\/06\/transylvania_furlong_lava-350x219.jpeg 350w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2025\/06\/transylvania_furlong_lava-768x481.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2025\/06\/transylvania_furlong_lava-810x507.jpeg 810w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2025\/06\/transylvania_furlong_lava-300x188.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2025\/06\/transylvania_furlong_lava.jpeg 992w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Furlong fondly remembers being a student during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/academics\/study-abroad\/opportunities\/may-term\/\">May term<\/a> \u2014 when Pioneers focus on a single class, often involving travel. Besides Tropical Ecology with professor James Wagner, she took a variety of other courses, including Theory of Numbers with David Choate and Southern Literature with Martha Billips. Each one &#8220;radiated the excitement and passion of professors finally getting to geek out about their favorite topics,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I knew that I had big shoes to fill.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year, she joined sociology professor Olivia Fleming for the May term class Monkeying Around: Non-Human Animals and Society, which traveled to London and Gibraltar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Some intellectual experiences must be lived to be fully understood,&#8221; Furlong continued. &#8220;I learned that first as a student standing on that volcano with the flowing lava near me, and now I try to provide those opportunities to my students. But these days with less lava and more monkeys.&#8221; She called these &#8220;moments when learning escapes the page and becomes reality.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"730\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2025\/06\/transylvania_study-abroad_3-730x484.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2025\/06\/transylvania_study-abroad_3-730x484.jpeg 730w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2025\/06\/transylvania_study-abroad_3-350x232.jpeg 350w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2025\/06\/transylvania_study-abroad_3-768x509.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2025\/06\/transylvania_study-abroad_3-810x537.jpeg 810w, 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