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Albion College Students Pack 10,000 Meals in Kids Against Hunger Event

Student Volunteer Bureau's Kids Against Hunger event, Albion College, March 21, 2015

Student Volunteer Bureau's Kids Against Hunger event, Albion College, March 21, 2015
Lined up among rows of tables in the Kellogg Center's Gerstacker Commons, hairnets securely fastened, more than 80 students packed 10,000 meals last Saturday for the Albion College Student Volunteer Bureau's Kids Against Hunger effort. The meals, each of which packs a day's worth of nutrition, will be distributed locally and sent to Sierra Leone to help meet increased food-supply needs in the wake of the Ebola epidemic.

NCAA Features Fornetti, '06, and Her Research

Jaime Fornetti, '06, and her post-doctoral work in breast cancer research was featured in NCAA's After the Game in February 2015.

Jaime Fornetti, '06, and her post-doctoral work in breast cancer research was featured in NCAA's After the Game in February 2015.
Four months into her post-doc at the Oklahoma Medical Research Facility, Jaime Fornetti is searching for a route to target breast cancer bone metastasis. At 31, she has already worked in some of the most influential labs among some of the greatest leaders in this realm of research. That path included her success at Albion, as a biology major and a member of the women's basketball and track teams. "She reallly embodied the true meaning of student-athlete," women's basketball coach Doreen Carden told NCAA.org's After the Game, which shares Fornetti's story.

Read more, watch video on NCAA.org

New Pre-Health Maymester Gives Students Valuable Experience

Tara Mahon, '16; Lauren Stull, '17; and Nick Viazanko, '17 (left to right)

Tara Mahon, '16, Lauren Stull, '17 and Nick Viazanko, '17 (left to right)
Eight Albion College students with medical-school and physician-assistant aspirations picked up important clinical hours of hands-on work last month—hours needed for graduate school admission—in a new collaboration between the Institute for Healthcare Professions and Kellogg Community College.

'Post-Reform' Medicine Discussed by Alumnus

Alumnus Chris Behling, '94, examines "Practicing Medicine in the Post Reform Era" in a public presentation Tuesday, March 5, at 7 p.m. in the College's Norris Center Towsley Hall.

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