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Graduating Redbirds: Music education major, a first-generation college graduate, is ready to inspire her students
Valeska Carrillo takes special pride in being the first in her family to earn a college degree. Raised in Aurora by parents who came to the U.S. from Mexico, she always dreamed of going to college.
Covering the eclipse: TV-10 reporter earns student Emmy for solar eclipse story
Maggee Bleyer, a senior journalism major, captured the April 8 eclipse in a roughly 2-minute package for TV-10. While the event she covered was extraordinary, it was Bleyer’s work behind the camera that truly stood out.
New child life specialist carves a career path where there was none before
When Maddie Shutwell ’21, M.S. ’24, finished her studies, she had a good idea of what she wanted to do for work and where she wanted to do it. The only glitch in her plan was the fact that Memorial Hospital in Carthage, her hometown, had never had a child life specialist on staff. That all changed back in May, when Shutwell pitched the idea and then helped create the job.News
