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World Series dream reached by Bloomsburg University graduate
Professional athletes, broadcasters and writers all want to make it to the championship of the sport they're involved with for a living. Tim Kelly '18 achieved that goal this year.
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A link in the chain: Alum coaches students on their climb into manufacturing
As a December '82 grad, Rich Wisniewski was a member of the last class of Bloomsburg State College. That may have been why he was lost in the shuffle of alumni outreach for the first few decades after...
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Improving Lives, Strengthening Partnerships
For a time, Jess Gombar '11 didn’t think she would consider Bloom as her college of choice. "My mom had gone to Bloom, so during my first campus visit, she kept telling me where 'her friends did this'...
Helping Huskies Make the Tech Transition
Rachel Troychock' 03/'04 M has always been involved as an alum, initially as a social member of the Carver Hall chapter of the Alumni Association and later as an alumni volunteer. "I had left the area...
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Coaching students through life's transitions
To Ebony Taylor ‘12/'13M, Bloom felt like home the first time she was on campus, especially after she bumped into a former school classmate from the boarding school she had attended. It all just felt...
Making the most of opportunity: Alumnus begins law school at Harvard
Nearly 20 years ago, Chanty Gbaye was offered a second chance at a better life. “My family fled the civil war in Liberia and won a diversity VISA to come to the United States on Dec. 16, 2003, seven...
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Tapping the Pack's Potential
Jessie Lee ’20 didn’t have the smoothest of transitions from college student to confident professional. She struggled to find her niche in the business college and found it challenging to move out of...
Alumni pair leverage homegrown grit to tackle law school
Competing with an underdog, small school mindset is nothing new for Nick McGuire and Siena Cerra, who each successfully did so as NCAA Division II student-athletes at Bloomsburg University. That...
Alumna takes accelerated plan to medical school
This month, Oriana Balascio fresh off earning her master’s degree in biology begins the next leg of her journey to becoming an osteopathic physician — a path kickstarted from an Honors class presentation in her freshman year at Bloomsburg University.
Outgoing alumni president connected with students
When Felicia Ellzy’ 10/’11M applied to Bloomsburg University, she had no idea how her fellow Huskies would shape her future. As her term as president of the Bloomsburg University Alumni Association...