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It’s a win-win situation. Business stu- dents at Carthage College, Kenosha, Wis., run a real company even before they graduate, while local businesses and nonprofits get bargain rates. According to Carthage, Velocity Consulting is the first 100 percent student-run, full-service consulting company in the U.S. Students must submit résumés to join the company. “With Velocity, we’re already in the real world,” said the company’s senior CEO, Catherine Rogers, a marketing and art history major. On a recent paying project for improving


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Midland University, Fremont, Neb., plans to offer a Master of Busi- ness Administration program in fall 2012. Led by Raymond Sass, the university’s director of strategic planning, the program is aimed at recent college graduates and work- ing professionals. Midland’s board hopes to offer undergraduate busi- ness majors a chance to complete their MBA in one year. Sass (no rela- tion to Midland President Ben Sasse) was previously chief of staff of the $40 million-plus internal think tank at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.


“Study the past if you would divine the future.” This quote attributed to the philosopher Confucius may shed light on why paleoclimatologists like Laura Peterson try to reconstruct the Earth’s past climate behavior. Peterson, an assistant professor of environmental studies and chemistry at Luther College, Decorah, Iowa, received a $120,197 grant from the National Science Foundation toward research laboratory equipment. The grant will fund the purchase of an accelerated solvent extractor and a gas chromatograph. Peterson and


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her students will use these instru- ments to perform alkenone analysis, a way to estimate such things as past sea surface temperatures through compounds preserved in ocean sediments.


Helping students to change life- style and chemical health issues has been the life work of Judy Douglas, director of alcohol and drug edu- cation at Gustavus Adolphus Col- lege, St. Peter, Minn. Douglas was named 2011 Outstanding Alumni of the Year by the national peer educa- tion network BACCHUS (Boosting Alcohol Consciousness Concerning the Health of University Students). She founded the campus peer assis- tants program, which trains students to create change as friends, educa- tors, activists, role models and team members.


The Global Music Awards gave an award of merit to senior Megan Makeever of St. Olaf College, North- field, Minn., for her original album, Unstoppable. Makeever, an acoustic/ soul singer/songwriter, was selected over several well-established artists. St. Olaf band conductor Timothy Mahr called the award “strong affir- mation of her budding and important voice.” He will work with Makeever on material for her next release as part of an independent study project in songwriting. 


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