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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 Marketing Management, 2018). Here’s a brief timeline: February 2017: She was accepted into an online course offered by the…
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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…
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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 cheerleaders. They captured their seventh consecutive national championship on Jan. 13 after competing in the 2018 Universal…
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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…
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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 business. It was May 21, 2017. Wilmington University’s spring graduation ceremonies at the Chase Center on the Riverfront had just…
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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…
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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…
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Brittany Lewis: Building a Legacy that Honors African-Americans’ Past, Present and Future

March 28, 2018
WilmU alumna Brittany Lewis is an activist and educator who is making her voice heard. Whether it’s in boardrooms, college campuses or on social media, she captivates audiences and makes them think. Brittany Lewis Miss Black America On August 22, 2017, she used that voice to speak against domestic violence, a plea so passionate that she won over judges of the Miss Black America pageant and took…
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