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Getting into game day

It's 1:30 p.m. on game day and with Rascal Flats' "Fast Cars and Freedom" blasting from her iPod, sophomore Shannon Fitzgerald, a fullback and midfielder on the women's soccer team, begins her stretches. On this particular fall day the team is undefeated in the Great Northeast Athletic Conference and pressure mounts for another win. After [...]

2021-10-07T10:10:12-04:00November 30th, 2009|Categories: Fall 2009|Tags: , |

Talk with Andrew Wasowski ’11

Andrew Wasowski '11 of Windham, Maine, was recruited by the Marine Corps in high school. At age 18, he found himself in boot camp, which was followed by three tours in Iraq, where he spent nearly 28 months. He is now a junior nursing student on campus. What did you do in Iraq? Intelligence. It [...]

2021-10-07T10:10:12-04:00November 30th, 2009|Categories: Fall 2009|Tags: , , |

Companies get youthful advice. Students taste corporate world.

Thanks to students majoring in human resource management, a local law firm now uses Facebook, an insurance company has the ability to "tweet," and a nearby hospital knows what it will take to retain its new crop of Generation Y and Z employees. The major is a mere two years old, but under the tutelage of [...]

2021-10-07T10:10:13-04:00November 30th, 2009|Categories: Fall 2009|Tags: , , , , , |

College and consortium members receive $500,000 to battle invasive plant

The Maine Milfoil Consortium, which includes É«»¢ÊÓÆµ, recently received $500,000 in federal funds to fight an invasive aquatic plant that has infested 26 Maine lakes, including one cove of Sebago Lake. The group, which came together two years ago to address variable-leaf milfoil's threat to Maine lakes, will use the money to control [...]

2021-10-07T10:10:13-04:00May 1st, 2009|Categories: Fall 2009|Tags: , |

Erby Mitchell '98 heads admissions at elite school and admits President Obama’s daughters

Erby Mitchell '98 had no idea he would meet and greet President Barack Obama's family when he moved to Washington, D.C., to take a new job in 2007. But last fall after the presidential election, Michele Obama and her daughters, Sasha and Malia, came to visit Sidwell Friends School, where Erby is director of admissions [...]

2021-10-07T10:10:13-04:00May 1st, 2009|Categories: Spring 2009|Tags: , , |

Dr. Susan Miovech ’82

From the time she was 10 and faced weeks of hospital bed rest because of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, Susan Miovech wanted to be a nurse. Today, she holds an appointment as associate professor of nursing at Holy Family University in Philadelphia. Her work in the health care profession is the culmination of a life spent [...]

2021-10-07T10:10:13-04:00May 1st, 2009|Categories: Spring 2009|Tags: , , |

Alumna’s work with Hispanic community in Maine is her calling

Small and determined, she walks toward the altar as if drawn by the pull of a greater purpose. At the Spanish-language Mass where she assists - and in all her efforts elsewhere - her purpose is to honor the dignity of each human being, no matter their nationality or green card status. It propels the [...]

2021-10-07T10:10:13-04:00May 1st, 2009|Categories: Spring 2009|Tags: , , |

Professor wins grant for geology research

Natural sciences professor Johan Erikson has received a two-year $50,000 grant that he and two student researchers will use to examine geologic processes affecting the mineral composition of early post-Ice Age sediments in Maine." The research has implications for interpretation of long-term climate changes and their effects on the landscape," says Erikson, who was trained [...]

2021-10-07T10:10:14-04:00May 1st, 2009|Categories: Spring 2009|Tags: , |