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Moving from addiction toward a social work degree: 'I'm a force to be reckoned with'

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Five years ago, Eva Gregg was in the process of divorcing her husband. She was 45, and had recently moved from her parents' into an apartment near O'Malley and Elmore roads."I had a window that looked over to O'Malley," she said. There, in a pensive moment, she had an epiphany: "I survived 30 years of alcoholism and drug addiction so I could help other people. I asked myself, 'How can I help them?'"

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Ice cold justice: Captain Anholt leads sharp pack of Seawolves

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Meet Matt Anholt, current captain of the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ hockey team. He's a top-tier athlete, having played every game since arriving in 2014. He led the team in assists and points this season, and was second in both columns last year, earning him two WCHA Offensive Player of the Week honors.

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Four DNP graduates reach nursing's educational pinnacle, at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ

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Four women—Jyll Green, Jill Rife, Leigh Keefer and Robin Bassett—became the first class of graduates to accept Doctor of Nursing Practice degrees from Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ at fall commencement.

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Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ occupational therapy: ‘I want to be part of that’

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Finding a career in medicine has always been Jacqueline Solano's goal. Nursing was her original career choice when she started college. As a certified nursing assistant, she spent a summer working at Providence Alaska Medical Center's transitional care unit and met a patient who changed her life-a woman in her late 60s who had just had a stroke.