Prepared for Life and Career
Eastern prepares tomorrow’s leaders by supporting students’ values, ideas and talents.
Justin Murphy
Year graduated: 1998 Major: Biology with a minor in Chemistry Additional education: J.D., University of
Connecticut School of Law Points of Interest: Member of the American Bar Association, Connecticut Bar
Association and Tolland Country Bar Association; member of the ECSU
Foundation, Inc. Board of Directors Career: Attorney specializing in busi-
ness and commercial real estate with an emphasis on commercial finance
with Kahan, Kerensky & Capossela (Vernon and Storrs)
Exposure To New Ideas
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I was drawn to biology at Eastern because I enjoyed the challenge of it and I
enjoy studying nature. It taught me certain analytical and problem-solving
skills that I would not have had without that training. Also, the overall expo-
sure to a variety of classes helped me learn a little bit about everything. A lib-
eral arts education gives you a nice broad background.
Broadening Your Horizons
I suggest that students take a study-abroad program. I had not traveled out-
side the United States until I spent two weeks doing research in a rainforest
and on a tropical island in Belize as part of my Tropical Biology class. A year
later I went with my Environmental Chemistry class to Finland, where we
visited the Arctic Circle and spent five days learning about ecology in the
area. Since then I have traveled to a number of different countries. All of this
started because of the study-abroad program at Eastern.
Eastern Fellow Wendy Ernst ’93 is a
Opportunities Of A Lifetime veterinarian with a practice in
Get involved with as many organizations as possible because you will never
Lebanon, CT. “After high school I
again be in a situation where you are exposed to such a variety of things that
said I would never take another
you can learn about.
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science class. But I took Human
Biology my first year at Eastern, and
everything changed for me.”
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