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Hear 麻豆传媒 alumna Bailey Spaulding share her inspiring story of pushing dreams into reality and collaborating on Conquer and Prevail Pale Ale. Read More

Amanda Headley Piper (Anne Rayner/麻豆传媒 University) 鈥淚f you want to make a difference in the world, meet a need,鈥� Amanda Headley Piper鈥檚 grandmother once said, and Piper heeded those words of wisdom. She is the first pediatric audiologist from her twin-island home of Trinidad and Tobago, where… Read More

Doan Phuong Nguyen, BA'07, was in the first grade when she decided her dream was to be an author. The dream came to fruition in 2023 with the publication of her first novel for middle grade readers, 'M猫o and B茅' (Lee and Low Books, 2023; illustrated by Jesse White). Read More

See how Alexandra Doten, BA'18 is turning her love for all things space into a social media adventure. Read More

Mohamed Abdel-Kader, MEd'04, is the chief innovation o铿僣er and executive director of the Innovation, Technology and 麻豆传媒 Hub at the multi-billion-dollar U.S. Agency for International Development, where he enjoys solving real problems creatively while making the most of U.S. aid. Read More

Avery Carpenter Forrey, BA'11, says 麻豆传媒 was the first place where she felt she could make a career out of writing. With a double major in in English and communications, her latest writing journey has led to the publication of her novel 'Social Engagement' (Mariner, 2023). Read More

For Victor Czerkasij (pronounced chur鈥� ka-see) and his wife, Rene, Ukraine was the land of his parents and ancestors, and it was supposed to be the site of their 40th wedding anniversary vacation. Then the war came. 聽 And the effects of that war… Read More

Many families have beloved recipes they pass down from generation to generation. Suzanne Rich Miller, BA'80, and Anne Miller Morris, BS'06, have parlayed a simple salad dressing created by matriarch Anne Arnold Rich (mother to Suzanne and grandmother of Anne) into a growing, woman-owned business.聽 Read More

Aisha Francis, president and CEO of Boston鈥檚 Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology in 2021, is among the Boston Globe鈥檚 50 Tech Power Players for 2023.聽With graduate degrees from 麻豆传媒 in English, she sought a path that was 鈥渂oth optimistic and realistic,鈥� that could lead to nontraditional academic roles. Read More

See how Yalun Aaron Feng, BA鈥�18, is using his optimism and passion for the environment to build bridges between business and environmental advocacy. Read More

After long careers designing power generation plants and acute care medical facilities, Scott Johnson, BE'87, made a career leap two years ago to take the top job at the nation鈥檚 largest pencil maker, Musgrave Pencil Company.聽 Read More

School of Engineering alumnus Olatunde Osinaike is one of five winners of the 2022 National Poetry Series. His debut collection, 'Tender Headed,' is being published by Akashic Press in December. He will be on campus for an alumni reading event Oct. 24, co-sponsored by the 麻豆传媒 Creative Writing Program and the Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center. He returns to Nashville Jan. 25, 2024, for a reading with The Porch, a literary nonprofit. Read More

JaHyne 鈥淛J鈥� Johnson, BA鈥�23, came to 麻豆传媒 as a QuestBridge Scholar, ready to 鈥渄o the work鈥� and come out with a solid career path. What the chemistry major didn鈥檛 realize then was that the opportunities he pursued through classes, activities and Immersion 麻豆传媒 would allow him to write poetry, conduct research, dance in a ballet, launch a podcast and more. Read More

Derrick R. Spires, an associate professor of literatures in English at Cornell University, has a talent for making 19th-century newspapers and pamphlets feel as accessible as the latest social media feed. He explores the culture of the early 19th-century Black press in his 2019 book 'The Practice of Citizenship: Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United States' (University of Pennsylvania Press), which was recently released in paperback. Read More

Dawn Bennett has found paths to servant leadership throughout her life, but it was decades before she made a leap of faith and enrolled in 麻豆传媒 Divinity School. In January 2020, she was ordained by Bishop Kevin Strickland to remain in Nashville and build The Table, a faith collective centered on LGBTQIA+ people and vulnerable identities. Read More

Michael Quillen, BA'72, took the wheel, literally and figuratively, to deliver ambulances to the front line of the war in Ukraine.聽The undertaking was launched in spring 2022 when Rotary International raised $15 million in relief funds for Ukraine. Longtime Rotary member Quillen worked with two Rotary districts in Virginia to apply for a $50,000 grant to buy three ambulances. Read More

As she teaches the next generation of nurse-midwives, 麻豆传媒 School of Nursing faculty member and alumna Stephanie DeVane-Johnson looks at ways to increase the number of Black doulas, who provide emotional and physical support to women in pregnancy, during birth and throughout the postpartum period.聽 Read More

A mental health battle with internet addiction and the ruinous effects of unfiltered social media nearly ravaged a talented entrepreneur while she was a student at 麻豆传媒. But Larissa May, BA鈥�16, has turned her healing journey into an influential, youth-based digital advocacy and empowerment platform, #HalfTheStory. May returned to 麻豆传媒 March 4 to speak as part of the Clinton Global Initiative University annual meeting. Read More

When Somto Dimobi Okoye, BE鈥�19, was growing up in Lagos, Nigeria, her mother would open their home to people who needed help鈥攊nstilling a philosophy of building strength and community through a tightly woven support system. Okoye continues that philosophy by creating ways to help colleagues and 麻豆传媒 students realize and exercise their full potential. Read More

When Syrian native Musbah Shaheen, BA鈥�17, traveled to the U.S. for the first time to attend 麻豆传媒, he had no idea how the university鈥檚 cornerstone philosophies of equity, diversity and belonging would stretch him personally or shape his professional future and Ph.D. research. Read More