Melissa Edgar, who graduated May 16 with a BS in biology, had already been accepted by the University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth campus. She recently learned she had been awarded the Dean’s Scholarship, an incredibly prestigious and rare four-year, full-tuition medical school grant.
Thanks to COVID-19, the volleyball standout Maya Roberts has another year of eligibility. And thanks to Viterbo’s 4-plus-1 program, a year from now she’ll be graduating from Viterbo again, this time with a Master of Arts in Servant Leadership degree.
Nathalia Duque's musical theatre and business management studies at Viterbo have served her well since she graduated in 2018. She is a performer at Hong Kong Disneyland, a job she landed thanks in part to an internship at Walt Disney World during her time at Viterbo.
Tanner Sanness '19 jumped right into a job in his major field—marketing—after graduation, but he soon found a way to put his business education and ag background to work in a new way. He started his own business, Reconnected Farms, offering as his first product oyster and lion's mane mushrooms.
Kelsey (Ludwig) Stefanich '20 and her fellow nursing seniors couldn't do their capstone clinicals because of the pandemic. Even without the capstone, Stefanich found she was well prepared to dive into the nursing profession when she got a job at a hospital in Juneau, Alaska.
Rather than jump directly into a career after graduation from Viterbo, Marne Boehm '20 was inspired by her ethics studies to devote a year to volunteer service with Mercy Volunteer Corps in San Francisco. She loved it so much, she will do a second volunteer year, this time in Philadelphia.
Mayo Clinic registered nurse and Viterbo University graduate student Jessica Lindblom launched the Weekend Backpack Food Program in Tomah for her Doctor of Nursing Practice degree research project.
When Lynne Kuhl, Viterbo University nursing faculty member, asks her students to consider death, she knows that in doing so she’s also asking them to celebrate life.
“When we spend time looking at what is death, what is dying, we ultimately look at, what is the quality of life, what is life and living, and what is really important to us,” she says.
Viterbo University alumna LeeAnn Van Vreede ’01 always had a feeling she would be back at Viterbo one day. That premonition came true in January 2016 when she was named director of counseling services.
Janet Holter is an associate professor and program director of the social work program, teaching classes across the curriculum. Holter has been a certified social worker for over 20 years, with extensive practice experience in child welfare.