Changing Lives
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Lijah Thompson
Since being featured in the "Change A Life" campaign, Lijah says he's been trying to be a good role model and the best student he can be. In the meantime, he's focusing on the RMU Men's Basketball team's 2012 season.
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David Brauer
Besides managing the daily business of Beecher's Coffee & Premium Tea, Dave is now pursuing a Ph.D. in Sustainable Development from Durham University in England.
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Kristen Graziano
Kristen's experience helped her decide on a capstone project topic for her doctoral work at RMU, where she’s working toward her Doctor of Nursing Practice (D.N.P.) degree in the Family Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner track.
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David Lee Folk
Lee has started back to school at RMU this past fall, where he's pursuing his Doctorate of Nursing Practice to become a family nurse practitioner.
The Stories
They’re humbling. They’re inspiring. They’re powerful. They’re real. There’s something about a good story that sinks in, hangs on and won’t let go. Because a life has changed. Here are several that found their way to us. And now to you.
When you have a bad apple, it rots the whole bunch. Same with coffee.
DAVE BRAUER
Human Resources Management
Her work with the homeless changes lives of a whole busload of students.
KRISTEN GRAZIANO
Nurse Practitioner, Graduate School of Nursing, Honor
Lijah teaches Mooncrest kids homework
LIJAH THOMPSON
Nurse Practitioner, Graduate School of Nursing, Honors
No one really knows what it’s like here until you’ve experienced it.
KATHLEEN CAGGIANO
Hospitality and Tourism Management
Why does this nursing grad hear a trumpet in Nicaragua?
DAVID LEE FOLK
School of Nursing, Honors
How did I go from a broken back in basic to back to school?
AMANDA SAUNDERS
Health Care Administrator
I met a guy who had nothing and said he had everything.
JENNIFER PHILLIPS
Hospitality and Tourism Management
Bring out the best in someone, and it brings out your own.
LAUREN GROCHOCKI
Actuarial Science, Honors
Fixing up a 93-year-old woman’s house puts your own house in order.
KATE HOSTETLER
Applied Psychology
Sure, a person can change your life. But a teddy bear?
MEGAN IVINS
Elementary Education
What do you do with sixty pairs of pajamas?
AMANDA MUSSER
Business Management
The Voice of RMU
PAUL SPRADLEY
MS, Instructional Leadership / BS, Media Production
My dad was so proud to see me graduate; now I’m back for my MBA
KARA CHAN
Business Administration (MBA)
Come to think of it, broadway is not that far from campus.
RYAN COLLINS
Media Arts (TV/Video) / Communications (Theater), Honors
Never thought I’d be filming the Steelers on game day.
NAZARI DOROSH
Media Arts
I’ve never had so many people helping to make my dream come true.
AMBER NOORLAG
Elementary Education
RMU was my passport to Italy, Gambia, and now the Peace Corps in Azerbaijan.
JULIE NELSON
Hospitality and Tourism Management, Minor in International Studies
From Bangladesh to Pittsburgh to fulfill my quest.
FARHANA HAMID
Family Nurse Practitioner
Teaching a little kid his colors took me to the end of the rainbow.
JOHN MOSES
Marketing, Theater Minor
One of my best classes was, well, in a kayak.
SHANNAN ROGAN
Hospitality and Tourism and Business Management
Maybe I’ve helped some of these kids to dream big, too.
BRIANA T. SMITH
Professional Communications/Information Systems, 2012
Now, even my little brother looks up to me.
CIERA WILSON
Business Management