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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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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…
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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. Restaino Cup. The Cup is awarded annually to the institution that performs at the highest level in all CACC-sponsored men’s…
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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…
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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 of Nursing Practice (DNP) program, she is applying the same tenacity and commitment. Parris-Atwell is responsible for…
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