cleaning up litter
April 13, 2018
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The Many Ways to Get Involved in WSU’s Earth Month Activities

April is Earth Month, and Worcester State University offers many ways for its community to promote protecting and saving the environment, including a lecture from the state’s head of environmental . . .

Doctor Ron Walls talks to Worcester State students.
March 14, 2018
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Preparedness—and Luck—Helped Save Lives at the Boston Marathon Bombing

Although three people died during the Boston Marathon bombings in 2013, the fact that so many other victims survived is partly because of the extensive mass casualty training conducted by the . . .

Staff and students from the Intensive English Language Institute
March 1, 2018
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Worcester State Students Contribute to One Million Acts of Good Campaign

Students gathered in the Student Center to create 300 Matter Boxes that were sent to areas in Worcester with food security concerns, including the South High Food Pantry, the Grace Hotel, the . . .

Worcester State student Nicole O'Connell does a rubbing at Memorial Auditorium.
February 26, 2018
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History Class Publishes Book about Worcester’s WWI Soldiers

World War I was an 18-month war that is perhaps the one least remembered in America. We entered World War I on April 7, 1917, and we lost 116,000 soldiers the final year of the war. Sadly, pieces of . . .

Worcester State' Bill O'Brien with Czech University's Petr Prochazka
February 26, 2018
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Professor Takes Students to Prague as Part of Class

After more than two decades of working with students from all over the world, Worcester State Professor Bill O’Brien can talk global politics and history as comfortably as he can assess how tax . . .

Black History Month graphic
January 31, 2018
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Worcester State University Celebrates Black History Month

Worcester State University will be celebrating Black History Month – February – with a series of events on campus. These events are coordinated by Third World Alliance, which is a student . . .

Worcester State University Associate Librarian Ross Griffiths
December 22, 2017
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Librarian Honors WSU’s Past by Building an Archive

Ross Griffiths is gentle when handling a pair of 88-year-old, off-white silk stockings, one of the more unusual artifacts in the nascent but growing Worcester State archives. “There are many ways . . .

a bamboo bike
December 22, 2017
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WSU Community Members to Build Bikes out of Bamboo over Break

A collaborative project to build four bamboo bicycles over three days in January will bring together intergenerational teams of students, alumni, and local refugee artisans to create reliable . . .

2017 Next Big Idea contest winners
December 18, 2017
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Proposal for Online Pet Supply Store Wins Next Big Idea Contest

A student proposal to create an online pet supply company won the 2017 Robert K. O’Brien ’58 Next Big Idea Competition, which took place on Friday, Dec. 9. Senior Andrew Stoddard’s plan for Pet . . .

A UN helicopter responding to a natural disaster.
December 6, 2017
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Effective Response to Global Disasters Requires Skills Beyond Medicine

Worcester State University students learned about the vital humanitarian work of an international emergency medicine physician from an expert in the field, Stephanie Kayden, M.D., the chief of the . . .

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