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Alumna Publishes Global Volunteering Book
From a young age, Shannon O’Donnell knew that the traditional path of school, work and retirement wasn’t for her. O’Donnell was living in Los Angeles after graduating with a degree in advertising/public relations from the University of Central Florida in 2006 when her sense of adventure and passion for helping others inspired her to take […]
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Student help animals and receive real-world practice
As long as Samantha Hynes has a watermelon in hand, Koko, a rescued emu, will strut toward the fence intently. On other days, Hynes lets a baby possum, mostly blind and in poor health, loose from his cage to play in the grass. Hynes and six other University of Central Florida students are spending their […]
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Calling all star gazers
A team from Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville has developed the website IceHunters (http://www.icehunters.org ), which challenges the public to discover potential destinations for a NASA mission at the very edge of the solar system set to happen around 2015. “I think it’s a great idea,” said Yanga Fernandez, a University of Central Florida physics […]