Our Stories

We believe that success can't be defined by material wealth, championships are great, but sportsmanship is what's important & feeding a soul is as important as enriching a mind.

Kevin Nickels ’13 is the vice president of Nickels Energy Solutions (NES), a Liverpool, N.Y., based company that specializes in the installation of solar panels. Since founding the company with his brother, Steven, in 2015, Nickels has dedicated his professional life to field that supports a number of national priorities, including climate change mitigation, national security and economic growth.

For more than 20 years, the men and women living and working aboard the International Space Station have advanced human knowledge and demonstrated new technologies, making scientific breakthroughs not possible on Earth. Grant Farrokh '15 helps make that possible.

Linsey (Williams) Donovan ’09 loves working with youth, especially those who are underserved. Donovan is executive director of New Levels Mentorship Network (NLMN), an organization that matches underrepresented first-generation college students with professional mentors in their area of interest. NLMN seeks to reduce barriers to entering the professional world. Donovan created New Levels with listening, teaching and modeling at its core.

There is something in the methodical nature of science that has always appealed to Ashley Loeven ’18. Loeven loves the challenge of finding a gap in knowledge, then posing a question, formulating a hypothesis, and testing that theory in order to reach a sound conclusion.

Le Moyne College recently received a generous $187,300 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation that will enable 19 female undergraduate students, known as Clare Boothe Luce (CBL) scholars, to pursue yearlong projects in the fields of chemistry, computer science, mathematics and physics under the guidance of faculty mentors.

When Kama Thomas ’07 arrived on the Le Moyne campus from the island nation of Saint Lucia, she expected to receive a terrific education. She did not expect to find a second family. But thanks to Maria DiTullio, Ph.D., associate professor emerita of psychology, that’s exactly what happened. Thomas formed a bond with DiTullio’s family that is as strong as it was unexpected.