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<strong>Western</strong> <strong>Connecticut</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong>
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Our campus<br />
• A.S. Liberal Arts<br />
• Accounting: Financial, Managerial<br />
• American Studies<br />
• Anthropology (Social Sciences)<br />
• Astronomy (Earth & Planetary Sciences)<br />
• Biochemistry (Chemistry)<br />
• Biology: Professional, Bioscience<br />
• Biotechnology (Chemistry)<br />
• Business Undeclared<br />
• Chemistry<br />
• Communication: Studies, Relational<br />
• Computer Science<br />
• Contract Major<br />
• Earth & Planetary Sciences<br />
• Ecology (Biology)<br />
• Economics (Social Sciences)<br />
• Elementary Education: American Studies,<br />
Anthropology/Sociology, Biology,<br />
Communication, English, English (teaching of<br />
writing), History, Mathematics, Political Science,<br />
Psychology, Social Sciences, Spanish<br />
• English (Literature)<br />
• Finance: Investments & Markets, Management<br />
• Graphic Design (Art)<br />
• Health Education<br />
• Health Promotion Studies: Community Health,<br />
Wellness Management<br />
• History<br />
• Illustration (Art)<br />
• Jazz Studies (Music)<br />
• Justice & Law Administration<br />
• Management: Human Resources, Supervisory,<br />
Small Business & Entrepreneurial<br />
• Management Information Systems<br />
• Marketing: General, Interactive<br />
• Mathematics: General, Computer Science<br />
• Media Arts: Studies, Production<br />
• Medical Technology<br />
• Meteorology<br />
• Music<br />
• Music Education<br />
• Music Performance: Classical Voice,<br />
Classical Instrumental<br />
• Nursing<br />
• Nursing: RN to BS<br />
• Photography (Art)<br />
• Political Science<br />
• Pre-Health Professions<br />
• Pre-Law<br />
• Psychology<br />
• Secondary Education: Biology, Chemistry,<br />
Earth Science, English, English (teaching of writing),<br />
History, Mathematics, Social Sciences, Spanish<br />
• Social Sciences: Political, Interdisciplinary<br />
• Social Work<br />
• Sociology<br />
• Spanish<br />
• Studio Art (Art)<br />
• Theatre Arts: Design/Technology, Drama,<br />
Management, Performance, Musical Theatre<br />
• Undeclared/Undecided (Exploratory Studies)<br />
• Writing: Business, Creative, General,<br />
Journalism/Freelance, Public Relations<br />
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10 | Academics 21 | Faculty 25 | Student Life 31 | After WestConn
shaping your future<br />
making memories
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finding your voice<br />
Choosing a college is like knocking on<br />
doors to the future and wondering what<br />
you’ll find. Will this door open on a scene<br />
totally unexpected, or one where you fit<br />
right in? Will that door lead to exciting<br />
challenges with interesting people who’ll<br />
make the adventure worth the ride?<br />
Welcome to WestConn, a university<br />
that’s all these things and more.<br />
The immediate future we offer here is full<br />
of information and experiences; it evolves<br />
day by day. It’s a time of goals emerging<br />
that you never knew you had, revealed<br />
by skilled instructors whose mission is<br />
to make every light go on in your brain.<br />
Ultimately, it’s a platform fully assembled<br />
for success.<br />
WestConn’s history goes back more<br />
than 100 years to its start in Danbury<br />
as a hometown teacher-training school<br />
that simply refused to stop growing.<br />
Now we’re a comprehensive institution<br />
of higher learning with two very different<br />
campuses, both located in Danbury<br />
and serving the same students. And<br />
our “never stop growing” mantra still<br />
applies –– as much to our future as it<br />
will to yours if you choose this university<br />
as your own.<br />
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Exploring area wetlands in order to<br />
survey existing amphibian populations and<br />
diversity, a WestConn student carefully lifts<br />
an egg mass to identify its species and<br />
observe its health.<br />
These outreach classes and other opportunities<br />
to participate in research studies<br />
and projects provide on-site experiences<br />
WestConn science students will draw on in<br />
their future careers. For non-science majors,<br />
participation means developing a deeper<br />
awareness of our natural environment and<br />
the impact we have on it –– both individually<br />
and as a society.<br />
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The Arts<br />
& Sciences<br />
speak volumes here<br />
meteorology at WestConn<br />
“I love weather and wanted to study it. My goal is to work at<br />
NASA, but I never realized how few schools offer degrees in<br />
meteorology. Then I visited WestConn. The Weather Center<br />
was perfect!”<br />
- Junior Cassandra Calderella<br />
The only <strong>Connecticut</strong> public university to<br />
offer a degree program in meteorology,<br />
WestConn students studying weather<br />
broadcasting have interned with local<br />
television stations.<br />
From the physical sciences to languages<br />
and literature, from psychology and math to<br />
computer science, media arts and anthropology,<br />
the arts and sciences are alive at WestConn and<br />
engaging students in examining the substance<br />
and challenges of the world they will encounter.<br />
As a student here, you might be part of a<br />
computer science class building and programming<br />
LEGO robots (right). Or your videography<br />
class might welcome a director such as Twilight’s<br />
Catherine Hardwicke (below) to speak about<br />
making fabulous books into great movies. Want<br />
to help bring peace to our troubled world? Our<br />
political science students participated in an<br />
international conference via Skype (bottom<br />
right), with students from several countries weighing<br />
in on nuclear weapons proliferation.<br />
The only <strong>Connecticut</strong> public university to<br />
offer a degree program in meteorology,<br />
WestConn students studying weather<br />
broadcasting have interned with local<br />
television stations.<br />
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Photo by Sophia Duarte<br />
In Spain, world languages student Sophia<br />
shot photos of subjects ranging from<br />
bulls in la Plaza del Toro to fellow<br />
WCSU students as flirtatious senoritas<br />
blushing behind lovely Spanish fans.
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Ancell School<br />
of Business:<br />
inspiring success<br />
“In my business program at WestConn, the focus is on leadership.<br />
The skills I’m learning in people-oriented courses like management<br />
negotiations and organizational behavior will be so beneficial to me<br />
in my career.”<br />
- Senior Amanda Lorenzo<br />
Dean of the ASB Dr. Allen Morton (center) and ASB<br />
students are interviewed on WXCI campus radio about<br />
their collaborative marketing project with SIAS<br />
<strong>University</strong> students in China.<br />
Classrooms at WestConn are equipped with<br />
up-to-date instructional technology. In addition,<br />
our Student Technology Training Center<br />
provides hands-on training in using the software<br />
and services available on campus.<br />
WestConn’s Ancell School of Business (ASB)<br />
prepares students for the careers they want in<br />
management, accounting, finance, management<br />
information systems (MIS), marketing and more.<br />
ASB programs inform students’ business acumen<br />
and develop the skills required for success in corporate,<br />
entrepreneurial, financial, philanthropic or<br />
other areas of business. In addition, our graduates<br />
frequently go on to pursue advanced degrees such<br />
as the ASB’s Master of Business Administration.<br />
The ASB Division of Justice and Law Administration<br />
(JLA) prepares students who anticipate<br />
careers in the broad and challenging field of law.<br />
Graduates have gone on to study at some of the<br />
top law schools in the country. ASB graduates<br />
have become judges, paralegals, criminal justice<br />
administrators, law enforcement officers and more.<br />
Our programs are taught by career attorneys,<br />
constitutional law authorities and others whose<br />
experience and credentials in this critical arena are<br />
highly respected.<br />
Jason Santiago<br />
Jason Santiago ’10 once felt a sense of<br />
disconnection from accepted paths to<br />
success. Now a graduate of ASB’s JLA,<br />
Santiago has already accomplished goals he<br />
once believed were far beyond his reach.<br />
The Educational Achievement & Access<br />
Program (EAP) helped Santiago overcome a<br />
reading disability and master self-discipline and<br />
good study skills (he made dean’s list!). Now<br />
it’s Santiago who is helping at-risk youth take<br />
control of their futures. He worked at EAP<br />
as an undergraduate and is currently head<br />
coordinator of EAP at WestConn.<br />
“Eventually I’ll use my JLA degree in criminal<br />
justice to become a law enforcement officer,”<br />
Santiago says. “I’ve learned so much here<br />
about how to overcome obstacles and how<br />
to deal with people. I tell the kids I work with<br />
that the true GPS is the one in your heart.<br />
Follow it and you’ll find your way.”<br />
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Professional<br />
Studies:<br />
standards of dedication<br />
Student teacher Jared Cowden<br />
’09, who graduated with a B.S.<br />
in Secondary Education-Biology,<br />
brought nature into the classroom<br />
during his student-teaching<br />
at Danbury High School.<br />
“WestConn’s location and low tuition appealed to me first, but it’s the<br />
individual attention you get here from professors that really counts.<br />
Also, the internship program I’m in as a special ed teacher has been<br />
especially important to me.”<br />
- Junior Albert (Ryan) Rivero<br />
Health promotion and exercise science students<br />
regularly sponsor a wide variety of health-related<br />
community activities in the Danbury area.<br />
It’s been said that teaching is a vocation, a calling.<br />
The same is said for nursing and social work as<br />
well as health promotion and exercise sciences.<br />
Training for these Professional Studies<br />
programs is rigorous. Student teachers, for<br />
instance, log many long hours of classroom time<br />
before sitting for assessment exams and certification.<br />
Nurses spend months in hospital settings<br />
in order to advance to the level of responsibility<br />
and expertise demanded by the job.<br />
Here at WestConn, this training pays off. Our<br />
students consistently achieve one of the<br />
highest pass rates in the state on the nursing<br />
board exam and our social work graduates are<br />
often eligible for advanced standing in graduate<br />
schools that offer a master’s in social work.<br />
If your interest lies in education, health and the<br />
human services professions, then WestConn is<br />
the place to train for the career of your dreams!<br />
To ensure they’re among the very best<br />
in their field, student nurses at WestConn<br />
complete an educational journey that<br />
seeks to put them to the test in more<br />
ways than one.<br />
Taught by an outstanding faculty of<br />
nurse educators who bring a wealth<br />
of experience to the classroom, the<br />
academic bar is set high. It has to be<br />
when lives are at stake.<br />
Our goal is to provide a superb education<br />
that will allow beginning nurses to meet<br />
the ever-changing health care challenges<br />
of a demanding profession. After graduation,<br />
our nurses are among the most<br />
respected and sought-after in the state.<br />
Most secure employment immediately at<br />
one of many hospitals or medical centers<br />
from which they can choose.<br />
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Hang with new friends and old as<br />
WestConn swings into spring to the<br />
beat of our annual Jazz Fest! Primo<br />
musicians wail on stage and conduct<br />
exciting and fun workshops. With<br />
one of the few B.M. in Jazz Studies<br />
programs in the region, we love to hear<br />
our young jazzers honing their techniques<br />
with the best at the Fest each year!<br />
And with WestConn’s close-to-NYC<br />
location, we get to bring some truly<br />
great musicians to perform and jam with<br />
students during Jazz Fest. Recent artists<br />
of note: Grammy-Award winners Maria<br />
Schneider and Chick Corea!<br />
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Our Visual &<br />
Performing Arts<br />
are taking bows<br />
“After serving in Iraq and Afghanistan as an airborne<br />
infantryman, no one was more surprised than me to discover<br />
art as a profession. My classes at WCSU helped me focus in on<br />
my creativity and develop it for the career I want.”<br />
- Senior Bryan Bielefeldt, U.S. Army Veteran<br />
Our theatre students create memorable characters on<br />
stage each year. Here, they offer a spring performance<br />
of the play, “A Flea in Her Ear.”<br />
When it comes to taking learning out of the classroom,<br />
WestConn instructors identify landscapes and destinations<br />
that will inspire their students.<br />
Maybe you “find” yourself in music, or in creating<br />
vivid images as a graphic designer. Maybe you<br />
hope to someday flood Broadway’s stages with<br />
color as a lighting engineer, or to illustrate books<br />
with unforgettable characters who delight young<br />
imaginations.<br />
Bring us all the talent and energy you’re ready to<br />
give your art. Our faculty of artists, directors, per<br />
formers and designers help students discover the<br />
creative genie within and develop the confidence<br />
required to ace auditions or blow the competition<br />
away with their portfolios.<br />
Our conservatory-level music department,<br />
known for its top instructors and programs,<br />
has teamed up with our theatre arts program<br />
to develop a B.A. in Musical Theatre degree —<br />
the first of its kind in the CSU system. And our art<br />
department –– with its students exhibiting on<br />
campus and at venues in places like<br />
New York City –– shines!<br />
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Photo by Aline O’Connor<br />
Aline snapped this photo of our thespians<br />
on the Royal High Mile, during their<br />
biennial performance at Scotland’s<br />
Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Adrienne Ostrove<br />
WestConn Research Day offers an<br />
opportunity for students to share their research<br />
or other accomplishments, such as paintings<br />
or music, in a conference set in the atrium of<br />
our Science Building on the Midtown campus.<br />
As a participant, Adrienne Ostrove ’10 (right),<br />
whose dual majors were psychology and Spanish,<br />
partnered with Sarah L. Decker ’10 on their project,<br />
“Effects of Context on Judgmentalism.” The faculty<br />
mentor on the project was Associate Professor of<br />
Psychology Dr. Robin C. Flanagan.<br />
Putting your message or talent out there requires<br />
confidence. Here at WestConn, students ready<br />
to let the world see their work have champions<br />
in the faculty members who mentor them. Says<br />
Ostrove, “Pretty much every professor I’ve ever<br />
had (and some that I haven’t!) has been a mentor<br />
to me, which is one of the great things about<br />
WestConn.”<br />
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Options<br />
& opportunities<br />
“Studying in Spain was one of the most enjoyable parts of<br />
my college career at WestConn. Meeting new people, traveling<br />
to different cities and learning about other cultures and perspectives<br />
is something everyone should experience if they can.”<br />
- Senior Sophia Duarte<br />
Once you’re admitted here, you’ll be assigned an<br />
academic adviser who’ll help you steer a clear path<br />
through course options and requirements.<br />
Riddle: What’s black, white, gold and blue with a splash<br />
of crimson for contrast? Our Honors Program students<br />
celebrating in full regalia!<br />
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Photo by Edmund Breitling ’08,’10<br />
Get engaged, informed and energized as you participate<br />
in an exciting university community initiative<br />
or take advantage of some of the interesting outof-classroom<br />
programs offered here at WestConn!<br />
Love travel? WestConn’s International Student<br />
Exchange Program (ISEP) lets you see the world<br />
–– earning credits along the way!<br />
You might want to volunteer in our Peer-To-Peer<br />
Online Mentoring service, or join our chapter of<br />
Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots to help make<br />
meaningful environmental change a reality.<br />
Focused on the value of high academic standards<br />
and civic achievement? Great! Our Honors<br />
Program or Hancock Student Leadership<br />
Program might be just the opportunity for you!<br />
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Edmund catches his student coworkers<br />
by surprise, interrupting their hard work<br />
in the Admissions Office. WestConn<br />
offers lots of opportunities for students<br />
to work on campus.
Our faculty take flight<br />
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“JC has been a shot in the<br />
arm for our media arts<br />
program,” says Department<br />
Chair and Professor of<br />
Communication Dr. Bill<br />
Petkanas. “He has a tremendous<br />
amount of talent<br />
and –– most importantly<br />
–– the ability to inspire.<br />
Frankly, the quality of work<br />
his students are producing<br />
is really amazing.”<br />
An independent video writer, producer,<br />
and director of commercial, corporate<br />
and educational media for more than<br />
20 years, Professor of Communication<br />
Dr. JC Barone (right) and his students<br />
wrap up shooting on a quadricentennial<br />
documentary about the Newburgh-<br />
Beacon Bay area. The video was a<br />
grant-funded project documenting the<br />
history of the region.<br />
Barone is the recipient of four prestigious<br />
Telly Awards, as well as the Communicator<br />
Award of Distinction and the Videographer<br />
Award of Distinction.<br />
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Assistant Professor of<br />
Meteorology Dr. Albert<br />
Owino is director of<br />
the university’s Weather<br />
Center. In collaboration<br />
with the Climate Studies<br />
Group of the <strong>University</strong><br />
of the West Indies,<br />
Jamaica, Owino heads up<br />
WestConn’s new Hurricane<br />
Research Program.<br />
Prepare to be blown away!<br />
Fulbright Scholar, Honors<br />
Program director, water rights<br />
expert, nuclear non-proliferation<br />
talks participant, political commentator:<br />
The many hats worn<br />
by Associate Professor of Political<br />
Science Dr. Chris Kukk never<br />
seem to slow him down. Kukk<br />
is a former International Security<br />
Fellow at Harvard <strong>University</strong>’s<br />
Belfer Center for Science and<br />
International Affairs and a 2007-08<br />
Fulbright Scholar at the <strong>University</strong><br />
of Tartu in Estonia. Previously, he<br />
was a counter-intelligence agent<br />
for the U.S. Army and a research<br />
associate for Cambridge Energy<br />
Research Associates.<br />
“My entire teaching career has<br />
been focused upon exploring and<br />
analyzing the effects of political<br />
economic development upon the<br />
environment,” Kukk says.<br />
Nationally renowned criminologist, attorney, legal analyst and commentator<br />
Dr. Casey Jordan (right), professor of justice and law administration, was a<br />
frequent guest on the Catherine Crier Live show when it aired on Court TV.<br />
Want to learn more about the great outdoors? Join ranks with Associate Professor of Biology and<br />
Environmental Sciences Dr. Theodora Pinou, who is conducting water testing of Danbury’s Lake<br />
Kenosia, examining ways in which the lake’s properties change with rainfall.<br />
Literary scholar Dr. Don Gagnon,<br />
assistant professor of English,<br />
considers the social and cultural<br />
implications of texts both in the<br />
classroom and on the page. His<br />
most recent publication explored<br />
issues of racial equality addressed<br />
in Eugene O’Neill’s literary classic<br />
“The Iceman Cometh.”<br />
At the forefront of the burgeoning information security field is Professor of<br />
Management Information Systems Dr. Marie Wright at WestConn’s Center<br />
for Financial Forensics and Information Security.<br />
During the week, Associate<br />
Professor of Theatre Arts<br />
Elizabeth Popiel teaches<br />
students to design sets for<br />
WestConn’s theatre arts<br />
productions. On weekends,<br />
this Emmy Award-winning<br />
set designer and art director<br />
practices her craft on the set<br />
of “Good Morning America,<br />
Weekend Edition.”<br />
Interested in nursing? Meet “SimMan,” the state-of-the-art medical<br />
simulator designed to teach critical thinking and decision-making skills<br />
to health care providers. “Students love it because it incorporates<br />
technology and it’s interactive,” says Associate Professor of Nursing<br />
Dr. Karen Daley.<br />
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Jumping for the<br />
joy of giving back<br />
Have trampoline, will touch the sky — for a<br />
good cause!<br />
It isn’t just the Tau Kappa Epsilon (TKE) fraternity<br />
brothers who find meaningful ways to raise dollars<br />
and awareness on our campus. This jump-a-thon<br />
for Alzheimer’s (left) honors President Ronald<br />
Reagan, a TKE member and victim of the disease.<br />
But many other students at WestConn contribute<br />
their efforts and endless energies to charitable<br />
events as well. Take for instance the Morning Glory<br />
Breakfast Program at the Dorothy Day House in<br />
Danbury. Our athletes (above left) volunteer there,<br />
serving many homeless individuals who find food<br />
and comfort at this long-established place<br />
of welcome.<br />
You may know the Jimmy Fund. Our students<br />
certainly do! Here (above center) a group of them<br />
challenge a lake full of winter ice to raise money for<br />
the fund. No worries, though — Danbury’s heroic<br />
firemen stand ready to rescue anyone too chilly<br />
to climb back out of the water!<br />
Another favorite destination for the dollars our<br />
students raise is Ann’s Place, the Home of<br />
I Can. This is where people living with cancer, and<br />
their loved ones, receive support and comfort. Our<br />
women’s lacrosse team members (above right),<br />
along with members of our men’s team, had a<br />
great time raising funds for Ann’s Place during last<br />
year’s Festival of Lights.<br />
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Recently renovated Fairfield Hall<br />
on the Midtown campus was<br />
WestConn’s first residence hall.<br />
Once a “female only” building,<br />
Fairfield is now coeducational. All<br />
residence-hall rooms have basic<br />
cable, local telephone and voicemail<br />
access, and students may<br />
access the Internet free through<br />
the campus ResNet program.<br />
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WestConn<br />
rocks!<br />
Sure, you love to study. And going to class for all<br />
that knowledge you’re going to need to thrive in<br />
our exciting 21st century — that’s the first thing<br />
on your mind most of the time, right?<br />
Sounds reasonable. But there is another side<br />
to WestConn we’re pretty sure you’ll love once<br />
you get to know us better. Like taking part in our<br />
for-fun Colonial Wars (right), where our various<br />
residence halls square off to show which one is<br />
really the best place to reside. Or being part of<br />
WXCI—FM campus radio (below), spinning the<br />
talk and tunes that go out to the Danbury area<br />
and beyond.<br />
Maybe you’ll love gliding over the ice at Winter<br />
Carnival (below left). Or getting into a rope pull<br />
(below right) sponsored by the Student Government<br />
Association and HPX to deliver a strong<br />
message about exercise to the campus at large.<br />
Whatever your idea of healthy fun is, you’ll find<br />
plenty of opportunity to express it at WestConn!<br />
The only <strong>Connecticut</strong> public university to<br />
offer a degree program in meteorology,<br />
WestConn students studying weather<br />
broadcasting have interned with local<br />
television stations.<br />
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• Accounting Society<br />
• Alpha Delta Pi Sorority<br />
• Bauhaus Art Club<br />
• Black Student Alliance<br />
• Chemistry Club<br />
• Clio (History Journal)<br />
• Colonial Yearbook<br />
• Delta Gamma Phi<br />
Sorority<br />
• The Echo<br />
• Education Club<br />
• English Society<br />
• Graduate Student Union<br />
• History Society<br />
• Jazz Club<br />
• Justice and Law Club<br />
• Keyboard Club<br />
Adam caught the Drop-Kick Murphys in<br />
action at Westfest, a yearly spring event<br />
happening just when everyone needs to<br />
take a break from studying for finals.<br />
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• Management Club<br />
• Marketing Club<br />
• Meteorology Club<br />
• Multiple Realities Club<br />
• Program Activities<br />
Council (PAC)<br />
• Psychology Club<br />
• Roger Sherman<br />
Debate Society<br />
• Sigma Chi Fraternity<br />
• Student Government<br />
Association (SGA)<br />
• Social Work Club<br />
• WIG (WestConn<br />
Improv Group)<br />
• WXCI—FM Campus Radio<br />
• Zeta Beta Tau Fraternity<br />
For a complete list of student organizations,<br />
visit wcsu.edu/studentlife.
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Melissa Teel<br />
Melissa Teel has been virtually unstoppable on<br />
the basketball court, helping our Colonial women<br />
to a 23-6 record, a Little East Conference<br />
title, and a berth in the Division III NCAA<br />
Tournament. Teel is nevertheless as much a<br />
lover of literature as she is master of the layup.<br />
Her scholastic achievement, athletic talent and<br />
upbeat personality would have appealed to any<br />
university, but she chose WestConn –– and<br />
we’re delighted she did!<br />
Finding time to dedicate to both her class<br />
workload and her team is a delicate balancing<br />
act, but one that Teel, a senior, seems to have<br />
perfected. “It’s hard at first, but it gets easier,”<br />
she says. “It’s all about time management.”<br />
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Athletics:<br />
bring it<br />
“Here at WestConn, the books do a great job<br />
of taking my mind elsewhere, but there are so<br />
many distractions at college. For me, the ball<br />
does the best job at keeping me focused and<br />
on track.”<br />
- Junior Brenden Bish<br />
Wide Receiver, Colonials Football<br />
Sports mean different things to different people.<br />
Many students at WestConn focus on exercise as<br />
a large component of their physical health. If that’s<br />
you, welcome to the great gyms, workout rooms,<br />
pool, tennis courts, etc., waiting here for you.<br />
Our men’s and women’s teams belong to the<br />
National Collegiate Athletic Association Division III<br />
and our football program is part of the New Jersey<br />
Athletic Conference. The 13 other intercollegiate<br />
programs participate in the Little East Conference.<br />
Whether you are a lacrosse lover or tops in tennis,<br />
basketball, volleyball, or soccer, be a player or a<br />
fan at WestConn and have a ball!<br />
Intramural and club sports thrive at WestConn, too.<br />
Serious and not-so-serious athletes and fans alike<br />
enjoy our beautiful O’Neill Center, Westside Athletic<br />
Complex and Bill Williams Gymnasium, where they<br />
can exercise their vocal enthusiasm to the fullest<br />
— or get in the game and play to win.<br />
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Baseball<br />
Men’s Basketball<br />
Women’s Basketball<br />
Field Hockey<br />
Football<br />
Men’s Lacrosse<br />
Women’s Lacrosse<br />
Men’s Soccer<br />
Women’s Soccer<br />
Softball<br />
Women’s Swimming<br />
and Diving<br />
Men’s Tennis<br />
Women’s Tennis<br />
Women’s Volleyball<br />
For more information about athletics,<br />
visit wcsu.edu/sports.<br />
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Now what?<br />
It’s a question most students ask<br />
themselves even before graduation.<br />
Your WestConn degree will prepare<br />
you for success in your discipline. The<br />
university provides the services of our<br />
Career Development Center and<br />
events such as our Career Fair to offer<br />
clear information on the opportunities<br />
you’ll find as a new graduate.<br />
Are you focused on teaching but<br />
wondering where the need for teachers<br />
is greatest? Hoping to find a position<br />
at one of the many world-class corporations<br />
in our area that regularly hire WCSU<br />
graduates? Ready to work for a global<br />
philanthropic organization or an exciting<br />
government agency? Our graduates<br />
have succeeded on all those tracks ––<br />
and so many more!<br />
One important option you may want<br />
to explore is graduate school. There<br />
are many advanced-degree programs<br />
at WestConn. Whether it’s an M.B.A.,<br />
an M.F.A. in Visual Arts or in Creative<br />
and Professional Writing, an Ed.D. in<br />
Instructional Leadership, or any other<br />
advanced degree from WestConn, earning<br />
that credential is key to achieving a<br />
higher level of success in virtually any<br />
career.<br />
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Meredith Liberto<br />
Meredith Liberto ’09 was a consistent dean’s<br />
list student, an Honor Program member and<br />
president of our award-winning Chemistry Club.<br />
She spent summers as an intern at the nearby<br />
U.S. headquarters of Boehringer Ingelheim<br />
Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and now works for the<br />
company full time as a research scientist.<br />
Her advice to new students reflects a credo<br />
she’s adopted from her Boehringer Ingelheim<br />
mentor, Dr. Joseph Woska. “‘Go big or go<br />
home,’” she quotes him. “Meaning take risks,<br />
push yourself, pursue your passions, and strive<br />
to do your personal best. Always remember to<br />
believe in yourself and surround yourself with<br />
good company.”<br />
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A WestConn job fair is<br />
the perfect place to get<br />
advice and feedback on<br />
your resume, or to find out<br />
who’s hiring.<br />
On to success!<br />
“WestConn gave me the education and experience<br />
I needed to pursue nursing. My professors helped<br />
me become more focused, more knowledgeable<br />
and more mature.”<br />
- Najah Mahfoud ’09<br />
(Above) WestConn M.F.A. in Visual Art graduate<br />
Jamison Odone ’10 was inspired by Maurice<br />
Sendak, with whom he became friends in Ridgefield,<br />
Conn. Here, Odone signs his recently published<br />
version of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, which<br />
he populated with captivating stick-figure characters.<br />
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(Left) In Jamaica these days,<br />
Fulbright Scholar Ashley Hyde<br />
’09 is conducting research on<br />
alternative methods of integration<br />
for deportees. After her study<br />
is completed, Hyde will earn a<br />
Master of Science in public health<br />
or international relations from the<br />
<strong>University</strong> of West Indies.<br />
(Below) The CPA firm of Fiorita,<br />
Kornhaas and Company has<br />
long offered internships and<br />
career opportunities to WestConn<br />
undergraduates and graduates.<br />
The only <strong>Connecticut</strong> public<br />
university to offer a degree program<br />
in meteorology, WestConn<br />
continues the legacy of weather<br />
Our alumni shine!<br />
The Honorable<br />
Mark Boughton ’95<br />
M.S., Elementary Education<br />
Mayor, City of Danbury<br />
Scott Brunjes ’85<br />
B.A., Communication<br />
CEO<br />
Mediassociates, Inc.<br />
Alexis (Brancato) Chacchia ’95<br />
B.A., History<br />
V.P. Operations<br />
Premier Financial Services<br />
Bryn Gillette ’09<br />
M.F.A., Art<br />
Humanitarian<br />
Art Teacher<br />
Trinity-Pawling School<br />
Robin S. Goodrich ’07<br />
M.S., Nursing<br />
Assistant Professor of Nursing<br />
WCSU<br />
Geoffrey Herald ’82<br />
B.S., Social Science<br />
Chief<br />
Danbury Fire Dept.<br />
Sharmese Hodge ’01<br />
B.S., Justice & Law Admin.<br />
Deputy Assistant <strong>State</strong>’s<br />
Attorney, Conn.<br />
Asif Khan ’94<br />
B.S., Business Administration<br />
Executive Director<br />
Fixed Income, Morgan Stanley<br />
Stephanie Madonna ’05<br />
B.A., Theatre Arts<br />
TV Locations Assistant for<br />
“White Collar”<br />
Joe Mingachos ’90<br />
B.A., Communications &<br />
Human Relations<br />
Head Coach<br />
WCSU Women’s Soccer<br />
Sarah Murray ’08<br />
B.S., Nursing<br />
Nurse, Waterbury Hospital<br />
WCSU Grad Student<br />
Nurse Practitioner Program<br />
David Nurnberger ’72<br />
B.S., Education-History<br />
Senior V.P., Human Relations<br />
Boehringer Ingelheim<br />
Pharmaceuticals<br />
Stephen Price ’09<br />
B.M., Classical Music (Performance)<br />
Fulbright Scholar, Organ Studies<br />
Conservatoire National<br />
de Région, France<br />
Teresa Rangle ’06<br />
B.S., Elementary Education<br />
Teacher<br />
Danbury Magnet School<br />
Lisa Siedlarz ’09<br />
M.F.A., Creative<br />
& Professional Writing<br />
Administrator, SCSU<br />
award-winning poet<br />
Jonathan Soares ’06<br />
B.S., Marketing<br />
Founder & CEO<br />
Q Products
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