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5 questions with… world traveler, new study abroad adviser Autumn Beechler
Autumn Beechler has never lived in one spot for more than four years. As a child, her family frequently moved—mostly around the state of Michigan and later to Ohio—for her father’s job. After settling in Ohio, Beechler attended Medina High School and enrolled at Bowling Green State University to stu...
5 questions with…Weatherhead School’s new assistant dean Roderick Ingram
Roderick Ingram is no stranger to hard work and perseverance. A native Clevelander, Ingram grew up on the western edge of the Hough neighborhood, in a public housing complex at the corner of East 55th Street and Hough Avenue. He attended the now-closed East High School, where he accelerated throug...
5 questions with…rising senior, international traveler Michael Scarpaci
Rising senior Michael Scarpaci spent his first semester abroad as an infant. He celebrated his first birthday in the middle of the Indian Ocean, as he traveled by ship from India to Kenya on the Semester at Sea program. His father, then a faculty member at Virginia Tech, taught business courses to u...
5 questions with…33-year Student Affairs employee Mayo Bulloch
Much has changed around campus since Mayo Bulloch arrived at ӰƵ nearly 33 years ago—from the buildings to the people, not to mention the programs available on campus. Bulloch has played an influential role in shaping programming for students at ӰƵ. As ...
5 questions with…new VP of Student Affairs Louis Stark
A far cry from the big city lifestyle of his hometown of Long Island, N.Y., Louis Stark attended college at Davis & Elkins College—a small-liberal arts school with an enrollment of less than 800 students in the mountains of Elkins, W.Va. It was there that Stark became involved in student activities...
5 questions with…senior pre-med student and globetrotter Karen Kruzer
Rising senior Karen Kruzer is trying something different this summer: staying in Cleveland. The pre-med, medical anthropology major is interning at MetroHealth Medical Center on a research study related to kidney failure in premature babies. Staying in the city might not seem abnormal for most. But...
5 questions with…rising senior soccer star Leah Levey
On Saturday, Leah Levey will board a flight to Israel, embarking on her fifth trip to the country. But this time around, she’s got a new goal in mind—a soccer goal, to be exact. The rising senior is one of 20 women selected for the USA Women’s Soccer Team for the 19th Maccabiah Games. The Maccabiah...
5 questions with…adjunct professor of law and rock star, Mark Avsec
Cleveland native Mark Avsec’s big break in the music industry came in 1975, when he was asked to play keyboard on a new song by the Steubenville band Wild Cherry. That famous song, “Play That Funky Music (White Boy)” served as the jumping off point for Avsec’s long, successful career in the arena o...
Five questions with… archaeology and art history buff Jenifer Neils
Jenifer Neils knew she wanted to be an archaeologist in the third grade after she read about field archaeology pioneer Heinrich Schliemann—a man whose work advocated the idea that Homer’s Iliad reflected actual historical events. She hasn’t looked back since. After graduating from Bryn Mawr, Neils w...
5 questions with…pathology, anatomy and biomaterials expert Nicholas Ziats
Nicholas P. Ziats, associate professor of pathology, biomedical engineering and anatomy, joined ӰƵ more than 30 years ago as a laboratory technician. But after only a few months, he knew he was going to work in that field for the rest of his life. He went on to earn his...