<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/2026-08-21/magazine/winter-2006/whale-internship.html" dsn="news"><pubDate/><title>A Whale of an Internship</title><excerpt>Two biology students interning at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History got an unexpected opportunity when a baby orca washed up on a Ventura beach. Matt Marinkovich ’07 and John Vicory ’06 assisted some of the world’s top veterinary pathologists in a day-long dissection to find out how the killer whale died.</excerpt><author/><image>
            
            <img src="http://blogs.westmont.edu/magazine/files/2006/11/Interns.jpg" alt="Matt Marinkovich and John Vicroy"/>
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