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Nursing Leadership Student Steps Up During Pandemic

April 28, 2021
Susannah Manupule, an MSN Leadership Education student, already is a leader in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps. A captain stationed at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, she is the assistant clinical nurse officer in charge (ACNOIC) of the Mother/Baby Unit. Besides her studies at Wilmington University, Capt. Manupule has an exceptionally busy work schedule because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Gatekeeper for Sports Diversity and Inclusion

April 28, 2021
Dr. Jason James, an assistant professor in the College of Business, has been named Wilmington University’s Athletics Diversity and Inclusion designee. In the role, which was approved by Divisions I, II, and III at the NCAA Convention in January 2020, he will serve as a…
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Remembering Kathy Guglielmo

April 28, 2021
Ask anyone who knew Kathy Guglielmo what she was like, and they’ll tell you she was one of the nicest people they’d ever known. Selfless in both her personal and professional pursuits, Guglielmo was always last on her own list. She died of kidney cancer on Nov. 9, 2020…
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The Magic of Telehealth

April 28, 2021
When the COVID-19 pandemic displaced students involved in clinical studies, the Nurse Practitioner Faculty team pivoted to develop a comprehensive set of guidelines for students to use telehealth as a modality for care delivery and assessment. Dr. Melody Randle, MSN NP program chair, teamed with Dr. Lori Irelan, regional chair, Dr. Stacey Graves, and Dr. Lynn Thomas-Bauer to create an…
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Partners Inside and Outside the Classroom

April 28, 2021
Like many alums, Jon Eagle derived great inspiration from his professors. One of them, Craig Lytle, actually became his business partner. “I first met Craig in a class entitled Organizational Behavior roughly four years ago,” says Eagle. “After a great class together…
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Making the Connection: Jeffrey Benson Jr.

April 28, 2021
For this Distinguished Alumni Award winner, community is life. On any given day, Jeffrey Benson Jr. plays several roles, including father, husband, businessman, student, and community leader. But what keeps his phone ringing, he says, is being a “connector of…
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From the Ground Up: Patricia Porcello

April 28, 2021
Patricia Porcello hopes that what she’s learning in a master’s degree program will allow her to help others as much as it’s been helping her to navigate the challenges of trauma and recovery in her own life. “Everything I went through, I can utilize,” says Porcello, who began the coursework for a master’s in Applied Family Science in January, just a month after completing her Bachelor…
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Vinny Tasca: A Goalkeeper Achieves His Goal

April 28, 2021
Vinny Tasca’s path to becoming an All-American soccer goal-keeper is the classic story — common not just to sports but many other endeavors: the emergency fill-in who, more or less by accident, finds his niche with the team, company, business, organization, etc. For…
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Chelsea Botsch: Her Plea for Justice

April 28, 2021
Chelsea Botsch, an All-America softball pitcher and 2015 graduate of Wilmington University, went on to earn a degree from the West Virginia University College of Law in 2019. While at WVU, Botsch worked with the Innocence Project, an initiative to free those in U.S. prisons…
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The Power of Research

April 28, 2021
Wilmington University faculty researchers are making real-world contributions to the real world. Are you using a laptop, tablet, or cellphone to read this? What about that steady wi-fi connection and the heat and light in your house, making you comfortable as you read? These, and many more good things, have come to us through research. Here’s a truth: Research helps people; research helps…
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