Southern
ALUMNI MAGAZINE
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Major Grant Provides Expansive 24 Career Opportunities for Nurses About 3,000 more registered nurses will be needed annually in Connecticut, echoing trends in much of the country. Southern is helping to address the shortfall, aided by a grant from the Yale New Haven Health System.
28 A Golden Opportunity
For more than 50 years, the Southern Educational Opportunity Program (SEOP) has helped promising students reach their potential and graduate from college.
DE PARTM E N TS
(Left to right) Nursing Clinical Director Pamela Forte; Nursing School Chair Maria Krol; nursing students Eirenie Athanasoulis, ’23, and Angela Broadway, ’23; and President Joe Bertolino
2 ■ From the President 3 ■ Campus News 10 ■ True Blue 26 ■ Hidden Campus 30 ■ Supporting Southern A $3 million pledge forwards student research by endowing the Werth Nanotechnology Industry Academic Fellowship — while also inspiring others to give.
34 ■ Owl Update
It’s all about family for Brittany Galla, ’08, the digital content director at Parade.com. In a personal essay, she looks back at the university where hers began.
36 Fine Lines
The fields of science, conservation, art, and education combine in the works of two celebrated natural science illustrators.
JEANETTE COMPTON, ’03, M.S. ’16
DORIE PETROCHKO, M.S. ’78
37 ■ Social Southern 38 ■ Spaces & Places in New Haven The symphony comes to Southern.
40 ■ Alumni News 44 ■ Alumni Notes 48 ■ Seen on Campus
