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August 23, 2013
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...
August 09, 2013
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...
August 01, 2013
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...
July 26, 2013
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 ...
July 19, 2013
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...
July 12, 2013
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...
July 05, 2013
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...
June 28, 2013
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...
June 14, 2013
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...
May 30, 2013
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...