Baldwin Wallace University: Nick Galaida of Brunswick has been named a Brain Fellow by Baldwin Wallace University’s David and Frances Brain Center for Community Engagement. Galaida, a graduate of Padua Franciscan High School majoring in psychology and sociology, shared the honor with 10 other students.
Brain Fellows are student leaders addressing today’s most complex and challenging social issues while working to educate and empower the community to take action. During the yearlong program, Brain Fellows explore the nuances related to social change and leadership during weekly meetings, community events and discussions with community leaders.
Brain Fellows also determine a social change topic of focus, developing a “Vision Stand” as a culminating project during the fall semester. During the spring semester, they create a social change project that focuses on a social change issue and collaborates with an organization or group throughout the process. The project includes a plan for sustainability and a group presentation at the Ovation Festival, BW’s annual celebration of student achievement.
The Brain Fellowship is one of many programs organized by the David and Frances Brain Center for Community Engagement. Community groups interested in partnering with BW can contact the Center at 440-826-2403 or BrainCenter@bw.edu.
Gailada was also awarded an internship, along with Nick Nanosky of Medina, a Baldwin Wallace University Center for Innovation & Growth Practice internship. Nanosky is a graduate of Medina Senior High School majoring in pre-physical therapy.
Eight high-achieving students selected from a broad array of backgrounds received the internships. The interns spent the summer working remotely and will continue their work on campus through the academic year as part of a project team completing professional consulting engagements for CIG partners and clients, which include First Energy, OEC, Parker Hannifin Corporation and Swagelok.
CIG Growth Practice interns are trained to conduct secondary market research and primary market research using Voice of the Customer methodology. Additionally, interns work with project teams to create and deliver professional presentations for clients, outlining research findings, recommendations and strategic options. They also complete intensive presentation coaching, as well as participate in team-building and networking opportunities.
Morgan Briley of Brunswick is one of three first-year student-athletes to continue their women’s golf career at Baldwin Wallace University.
Head Coach Andrew Edgar, who is in his second season, returns six letter winners and three Academic All-Ohio Athletic Conference players from last year’s team that played in six fall tournaments and one spring tournament before the season was cut short due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Briley is a graduate of Brunswick High School.
Ana Laguardia of Medina, a graduate of Medina High School, is one of eight first-year student-athletes to continue their softball career at Baldwin Wallace University.
Head Coach Tom Spencer, who enters his 17th season, returns 11 letter winners, five All-Ohio Athletic Conference players and four Academic All-OAC selections from last year’s squad that had its season cut short due to COVID-19 pandemic just eight games into the year.
Nicholas Reilman of Medina and a graduate of/Walsh Jesuit High School, is one of the 14 inaugural members of the Baldwin Wallace University men’s volleyball team.
Head Coach Kyle Mars, who was named the program’s first head coach on September 23, 2019, has assembled an inaugural class that represents seven different states and features 13 freshman and one junior. The class immediately becomes one of the most geographically diverse in the Yellow Jackets athletics program, with athletes from Arizona, California and Hawaii.
Carter Almady of Brunswick and a graduate of Brunswick High School, is one of eight first-year student-athletes to continue their men’s cross-country career at Baldwin Wallace University.
Coordinator of Cross Country and Track and Field and Men’s Cross-Country Head Coach Joe Eby, who is in his sixth season as head coach and second as coordinator, returns nine letter winners, two-All-Ohio runners, one All-Ohio Athletic Conference performer and one Academic All-OAC selection from last year’s squad that finished seventh at the OAC Championships.
The University of Alabama: Austin Wayne of Medina has received Bachelor of Science degree. UA awarded some 1,345 degrees during summer commencement July 31 - Aug. 2.
Ohio Wesleyan University: Josh Cabacungan of Medina is among more than 130 first and second-year students to be admitted into Schubert Honors Program at Ohio Wesleyan University this fall.
To be invited to join the selective program, incoming students are required to have a minimum 3.6 high school GPA when admitted to the university. Second-year students must have achieved at least a 3.5 GPA while at Ohio Wesleyan. Ohio Wesleyan’s four-year Honors Program culminates in an honors independent research or creative project under the mentorship of a faculty member in each student’s area of academic interest.
Hamilton College: Michael Lawlor, of Medina, recently matriculated as a first-year student at Hamilton College. Lawlor, a graduate of Western Reserve Academy, was selected from a pool of 7,443 applicants to the college, and joins a class of 470.
Slippery Rock University: The Slippery Rock Department of Dance will host its annual Faculty and Guest Artist concert at 7:30 p.m., Oct. 8 via a livestream on the University’s YouTube channel.
Erin Brod, a sophomore dance major from Medina, will participate in the concert, a collaboration between SRU dance and art students, university faculty and nationally and internationally known guest artists. Jesse Factor, SRU instructor of dance and coordinator for the event, describes it as an opportunity for “showcasing dance faculties' creative research and to work with guest artists to diversify students' dance experiences.”
Students who were selected to participate auditioned during the spring semester. The concert will include up to 10 performances consisting of various styles and techniques and featuring 20 student dancers, four guest artists and seven faculty members.
“It’s inspiring to see fellow faculty members and students continue to adapt and to allow ourselves to move forward creatively despite setbacks such as not being in a theater,” Factor said.
Admission for the livestream is $4 via e-tickets at sru.universitytickets.com