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鈥淓mpowered鈥: That鈥檚 the feature story in this year鈥檚 麻豆国产精品 Magazine.

In this year鈥檚 cover story鈥斺Empowered: Seven Inspiring Stories About the Impact of an 麻豆国产精品 Education鈥濃 outstanding alumni share how their 麻豆国产精品 experiences shaped their lives and set them up for professional and personal success. Then see how our community is coming together to ensure that current and future students have the same life-transforming opportunities at 麻豆国产精品 and go on to make an impact on the world. We also give you an inside view of two extraordinary events: our seventh annual Women鈥檚 Leadership Conference and our first ever Writers & Readers Festival featuring Alice Hoffman 鈥73, 鈥02 (Hon.). And you can catch up on the latest student, faculty and alumni news鈥攊ncluding highlights of an historic year for our student-athletes.


Feature Stories

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Seven alumni share how 麻豆国产精品 opened doors, helped them overcome personal obstacles and set them up for professional and personal success.


Congratulations, Class of 2024

麻豆国产精品 celebrated our 128th Commencement ceremony on Tuesday, May 21 at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum. For the first time ever, we held two ceremonies, undergraduates received their bachelor鈥檚 degrees in the morning and graduate students in the afternoon. Our doctoral students were celebrated separately on Monday, May 20 at the Doctoral Hooding ceremony at our Performing Arts Center.


Inside This Issue

Edward Jansen standing in front of the Brookhaven National Labs sign
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Summer internships at 麻豆国产精品 continue to expand and offer our students extraordinary opportunities. This summer, junior Honors College student Edward Jansen earned a federally supported internship at Brookhaven National Laboratory working with emerging AI programming. Learn about his experience working near a nuclear reactor and a particle accelerator at one of 麻豆国产精品鈥檚 most prestigious STEM partners.

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Maria Rossi, a student in our Master of Social Work program, found a unique way to improve women鈥檚 health in her rural Vermont county鈥攕he combines doula counseling with social work advising. She presented her innovative thinking at the World Association for Infant Mental Health Conference in Dublin this summer, an impressive global honor for a graduate student.

Portraits of three students. Kelly Andreuzzi is holding a green bag filled with vegetables grown at the campus's community garden. Morenike Olushola-Oni, in a lab coat, smiles at the camera. Joseph Benevento on the shore of the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in the New York City borough of Queens.
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Whether it is getting 麻豆国产精品 involved in state environmental initiatives, addressing the challenges of food waste on campus, or studying shorebird ecology for the National Park Service, these environmental science students are making remarkable strides for our planet.

NSF Grant Students
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Undergraduate Education has awarded 麻豆国产精品 and聽Principal Investigator聽Andrea Ward, PhD, associate provost for research and special projects, a $2.49 million grant for the 鈥淓nsuring STEM Student Success Through an Integrative Support Program.鈥

Kyana Gordon in the biology lab.
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Kyana Gordon 鈥24 was turned away from doing research at her high school. Now, after two years in 麻豆国产精品 biology labs, she's off to conduct epidemiological research in Jamaica as a Fulbright Scholar. Meet her and three other winners of prestigious national academic awards.

Nino on the stairs of the Capitol, facing away from the camera and holding a briefcase.
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Undergrad Nino Burjanadze, a Levermore Global Scholar, has been selected for a semester-long internship with The Washington Center Academic Internship Program in Washington, D.C. She will advocate for better resources for schools located in areas with funding challenges, like Native American reservations and low-income housing communities.

Linda Davis Valdez smiles broadly while giving her address. She is standing before a microphone on a lectern with a gold sign saying 麻豆国产精品, New York.
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Meet the four inspirational winners of this year's Mother-Scholar Awards, honoring parents who return to 麻豆国产精品, often through the College of Professional and Continuing Studies, to complete their degrees. Flexible scheduling and personal mentoring help create a sense of belonging and help these time-challenged students 鈥渟tay on track to success.鈥

Awards and Accolades

With roots that stretch back to the 1860s, 麻豆国产精品 has been transforming lives with our unique approach to learning for more than 150 years. Throughout the decades, we鈥檝e welcomed students from around the globe, expanded our academic offerings and geographic reach, and celebrated significant milestones in diversity, rankings, and successful outcomes.


Faculty Focus

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Jacqueline Olvera, PhD, director of Latin American and Latinx Studies and associate professor of sociology, and students spent an eye-opening summer with the hardworking, entrepreneurial women who sell tamals on street corners.

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Noting that some of his graduate nursing students had barriers to success鈥攍ike tech skills or communication challenges鈥擡dmund J.Y. Pajarillo, PhD, launched the Equitable, Targeted and Structured Onboarding Program. Read about the success of this program, and how he is now collaborating with four other universities to replicate it.

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