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Scholarship Saved, Dream Realized

March 28, 2018
For the past 20-plus years, Tiff McCullough Jr., ninth grade principal at Dover (Delaware) High School, has been living his dream — being a teacher. Tiff McCullough played basketball on scholarship in the early 1990’s. While his two degrees from Wilmington University were essential in achieving that dream, he got some help along the way from University President Dr. LaVerne Harmon. In…
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Alumna Forms Nonprofit to Fight Cancer

March 26, 2018
Jackki Kennedy, a 1987 Wilmington College alumna, is a fighter. Want proof? She has survived five bouts of cancer.  From left: As’ia Darring, Sharon Banks, Chantille Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, Taleah Kennedy, Byron Alston, Jolene Penn Unfortunately, her sister…
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Service to the City: Marty Hageman

March 26, 2018
This alumnus credits WilmU for much of his success as both a police officer and leader of Downtown Visions.  Marty Hageman remembers when Downtown Visions, the management company for Wilmington’s Downtown Business Improvement District, turned on its first surveillance camera 17 years ago. “Within 30 seconds of being activated, it caught a crime being committed,” he says. Which could not…
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Keeping the Cup: Men’s Teams Dominate CACC

March 26, 2018
It has been handed out since the 1976–77 season, but no institution has dominated it like Wilmington University. No other men’s athletic department has won more than three Restaino Cups in a row. It’s the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference Men’s Alfred R.
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University’s AD Moves to New Post

March 26, 2018
When Dr. Linda Van Drie-Andrzjewski started working for the Wilmington University in Student Affairs in 2001, the director of athletics title didn’t exist. Caldwell University AD and Director’s Council Chair Mark Corino with Dr. Van Drie-Andrzjewski Ten years later, when…
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A Lesson in Compassion

March 26, 2018
It all started in a grocery store, where Dr. Sheila Sharbaugh ran into a nursing colleague from Delaware Technical Community College. “She asked if I’d ever thought about teaching,” she says, adding that DelTech was hiring — in a week.   Dr. Sheila M. Sharbaugh, Assistant Vice President, Academic Affairs A successful ER nurse for more than two decades, Dr. Sharbaugh had to think quickly.
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Nurse, Student, Role Model

March 26, 2018
U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Gwyn Parris-Atwell knows all too well the cost of freedom. U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Gwyn Parris-Atwell in Iraq. The military nurse deployed to Iraq on New Year’s Day in 2010 and also in 2013, on Mother’s Day. Now, as a student in WilmU’s Doctor…
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The NextFab Partnership

March 26, 2018
Wilmington University students now have access to laser-cutters, 3D printers and electronics and software-training labs, thanks to the College of Technology’s partnership with NextFab, a collaborative makerspace network that opened a location in Wilmington’s Creative…
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Need a Beer?

March 25, 2018
Throughout time, cities were built and destroyed, kingdoms rose and fell, but one thing is certain: They had plenty of beer along the way. Some scholars say beer has been around for 7,000 years, a concoction that arrived soon after barley was sown into the ground. WilmU adjunct Matt Barth, who teaches College of Arts & Sciences’ The Craft of Beer (CUL 303), knows that while it’s been…
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