Alumni News
January 22, 2014
Going to Sochi
Katie Eberling (BS '11, Early Childhood Education), former Western Michigan University volleyball player, has been named an alternate for the 2014 U.S. Olympic Bobsled Team. She will travel to Sochi, Russia with one other female alternate to substitute for a competing athlete during training, and possibly compete in the event...
January 16, 2014
Determination and Will
State of Residence: Maryland Country of Origin: South Sudan Thon Moses Chol (BA '06, Organizational Communication; MSW '08, Policy Planning & Administration) is a Lost Boy refugee from South Sudan who was resettled to the United States in 2000. Today, he is a refugee advocate and spokesperson and works as...
January 12, 2014
Inside the Golden Globes
Terry Crews, who plays Sergeant Terry Jeffords on the Fox television show Brooklyn Nine-Nine, was with his fellow cast members at the Golden Globe Awards on Sunday night to accept the award for Best Television Comedy Series. The series, currently in its first season, centers around a fictional New York...
January 08, 2014
Proper is Possible
Justin David Brink (BS ’01, Secondary Business Education) was watching the 1989 motion picture Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure when he got an idea. Near the end of the film, one of the characters advises a crowd of people to "be excellent to each other"—and that was when Brink decided...
December 19, 2013
One of Only Five
Shelley Aurand (BS '13, Nursing) received her commission as an army nurse on December 13 and graduated from the Bronson School of Nursing the following day. Unlike other commissioned graduates, however, Aurand will not go directly into active duty. Instead, she will continue her education to become a psychiatric and...
December 15, 2013
American Dream Come True
Lucia M. Rios (BA ’02, Journalism) has always dreamed of writing a book, and she is now one step closer to that goal — as the winner of the National Disability Institute’s third annual My American Dream Video Contest. Rios, a community access specialist at Holland’s Disability Network Lakeshore and...