Katherine Facenda '23: The Smile Architect
Katherine’s foray into biology might seem an unlikely one for a future dentist.
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As a future educator, Jonathan understands there is a lesson to be learned in everything.
When COVID-19 moved his Emmanuel courses and pre-practicum at the Richard J. Murphy K-8 School online, he became both a virtual learner and a virtual instructor for the first time. He found himself paying special attention to the practices of his Emmanuel faculty, both in how they delivered material and how they checked in with students’ wellbeing every day.
The Braintree native took these and other lessons with him to his student-teaching practicum at Cathedral High School during the Fall 2022 semester, where he taught four sections of 10th-grade World History I & II. There, he found a new set of challenges.
“Because of language barriers, it was clear I needed to find different modes and methods of teaching,” he said. “Through my concentration in digital history, I have been able to take classes in programming and design, and I employed many of those techniques to keep students visually engaged.”
In addition to his teaching license, Jonathan is earning additional certification in moderate disabilities. During his final semester at Emmanuel, he plans to get into substitute teaching to continue building his skills in different classroom environments, before he pursues teaching middle- or high-school history full-time after graduation.
Katherine’s foray into biology might seem an unlikely one for a future dentist.
As a future educator, Jonathan understands there is a lesson to be learned in everything.
For career inspiration, Erin looked no further than her family of first responders and their calling to “help people on their worst days.”
During the Fall 2022 semester, MacDonald and her research team of psychology majors Madeline Bradley ’23 and Matthew Lemansky ’23 (pictured) investigated the lived experiences of participants in an 8-week mindfulness training program.
One transformative high school law class changed Alyssa’s college plans from STEM to political science.
Nick grew up in a family of medical professionals—his mother and grandmother are both nurses and his father is a paramedic. “I’ve always been surrounded with medical jargon and stories of health incidents, crises, and the rewarding benefits of providing care,” he said.
Emmanuel College is one of 140 local nonprofits to receive grants of $100,000 to $500,000 each through the Cummings Foundation’s $25 Million Grant Program.
Counseling & health psychology major Christine came to Emmanuel knowing she wanted to pursue a career in health care, and the College’s opportunities and connections for students interested in the field—as well as a neuroscience course she attended at EC Incoming—made the decision an easy one.
When asking secondary education and biology double major Angela Girodier '22 if she’s more passionate about research or teaching, she quickly and emphatically says “both.”
From an early age, Campbell Shealy '22 was interested in two things—living in a big city and numbers.
One way that people’s body dissatisfaction is socially expressed is through engaging in negative conversations with friends regarding how unhappy they are with their bodies.
The role of the youth violence prevention streetworker is a critical and an often-overlooked component of juvenile violence intervention strategies in major cities across the U.S.
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