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Design Students Get Real-World Experience

July 18, 2018
Designing the cover of the Delaware Business Times 2018 Book of Lists gave three Wilmington University Media Design students an intimate look at the world of publishing, from pitching ideas to a client to final publication. The project began in February, when DBT contacted WilmU Public Relations Director Laurie Bick-Jensen, who then connected with Susan L. Gregg, associate professor and Design…
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Why Trauma-Informed Approaches Matter

July 17, 2018
What’s causing some lifespans to be shortened by up to 20 years?  An insidious virus? A drug-resistant strain of bacteria? Would you be surprised to learn that the cause is toxic stress? Marilyn Siebold, Dr. Debra Berke and Kim Newell discuss how best to “train”…
ALUMNI NEWSMAGAZINE

Geneva Fonda: Embracing the Journey

July 17, 2018
“Grateful and blessed,” Geneva Fonda has achieved multiple milestones while extolling the virtues of WilmU — “my school.”   The last year-and-a-half has been a blur of activity and achievement for alumna Geneva Fonda (B.S. in Finance, 2008; Master’s in…
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Working Upstream!

July 17, 2018
The College of Social and Behavioral Sciences announces a new Doctor of Social Science in Prevention Science. A parable known as “The River Story” or “The Upstream Story” has often been used as a common way to describe the prevention of social or health issues before they occur. Here’s one version:  Writer, educator and clinical epidemiologist Dr. W. Sumner Davis wrote: “Imagine a…
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LIFE@WILMUMAGAZINE

Journey to Joy

July 17, 2018
Dr. Regina Allen-Sharpe says she’s in the “dream development” business. “Everyone comes to college with a dream,” she says. “I like to think I play some small part in making that dream come to fruition.” Named assistant vice president of Student Affairs in…
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Seventh Wonder

July 17, 2018
Cheerleaders continue streak as UCA Small Coed Division II national champs. Wilmington University Cheerleading celebrates their 7th straight UCA National Cheerleading Championship. (Photo by Frank Stallworth) The streak is alive and well for Wilmington University’s…
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First to the Bench

July 17, 2018
Student Veda Wooley will be attending the Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law this fall as the first Wilmington University alum to be admitted. At 4, Wooley knew she wanted to be a lawyer. While her peers were preparing for kindergarten, she got a backrow seat viewing college courses while her parents taught at WilmU and Widener University School of Law.  She remembers sitting in on a…
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ALUMNI NEWSMAGAZINE

The ‘Pawn Pusher’

July 17, 2018
Walter Nathan Durant was just a text message away as the Thomas Edison Charter School team placed second in the 2018 National Junior High Chess Championship. Alumnus Walter Nathan Durant uses chess to teach students about life. The team was vying for a third national…
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Rollin’ On The River

March 29, 2018
Yvette Buckner-Rouse started a new business five minutes after graduating. Now she’s calling the shots at Wilmington’s burgeoning Riverfront. It took Yvette Buckner-Rouse all of five minutes to walk from the stage at commencement to the opening day of her new…
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Goats: Who Would Have Thought?

March 28, 2018
Green Grazer Goats business owner and WilmU student Kalyn Butts won more than $22,000 in cash and prizes in a local Shark Tank-style competition. WilmU student Kalyn Butts and partner Kevin Connor manage goats for their award-winningbusiness, Green Grazer Goats. Green Grazer Goats is an eco-friendly farming operation that with goats that uses goats to clear weeds and brush instead of heavy…
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