Our Stories

It was the opportunity of a lifetime. Maddy Locastro ’21 spent much of her summer in a lab at New York University’s Grossman School of Medicine, assisting with a study whose aim is to develop primary care strategies for children from low-income families. Locastro’s experience was made possible in large part due to the generosity of another Dolphin, the late William Gottstein ’51, who established a fund to help make it possible for students to avail themselves of internship experiences.

As a teacher on the Heights, Gordon Boudreau, Ph.D., taught his students that writing is central to social, cultural and political life - that if they could learn to think and write, they could do anything. This fall the College announced the establishment of a fund in Boudreau's name that will enrich his legacy by supporting monetary prizes for outstanding writing by first-year students and financial awards to aid faculty members in pursuit of scholarly work.

As a girl in Nepal, Nabina Bhattarai ’20 witnessed how devastating it can be when individuals don’t have access to quality, affordable health care. She also knew that shouldn’t be the case. That belief followed her when she moved to the United States in 2010. By the time she arrived on the Le Moyne campus in the fall of 2016, she was certain that she wanted to dedicate her professional life to caring for others, but she wasn’t sure how – until she discovered Manresa.

This fall the College launched a new Writing Center whose mission is to work with students and faculty members across disciplines in order to improve writing college-wide. The Center, which is housed in the newly renovated Noreen Reale Falcone Library, will host visiting experts in instructional design, pedagogy, and creative writing along with workshops for faculty members in all disciplines to advance writing across campus.

This summer Le Moyne became home to the Quantitative Thinking Village, in which middle school students from the Syracuse City School District learn about a variety of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields - and have a lot of fun.

Ann Ryan ‘85, Ph.D., is an English professor and a Mark Twain scholar. She’s a Le Moyne alumna, the College’s director of writing, and the faculty moderator for the student-run English Club.

This program is preparing me by putting me in real life situations. Assignments have essentially been rehearsals for the future, allowing me the chance to learn and grow from my mistakes.