Alumni News & Events
March 2008 (this page is currently being updated- please check back)
| Donnie Forti USM'02, now at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Graduate School of Journalism is is one of six leading graduate school journalism students selected in a joint project with the nonprofit Carnegie Corporation, to spend the summer working with the ABC News investigative unit. This year's project involved an examination of whether, as happened in the wake of the Vietnam War, Iraqi war veterans were turning to drugs as a result of the trauma and pain of war. |
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The link to his story: http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=3927016&page=1. Forti is currently producing a radio series for his university that examines the shortage of teachers in the state of Illinois.
Alumni in the news:
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, July 23, 2007, Past USM student J.B. Dill develops simple filter so world's poor can have safe water
The Boston Globe, July 8, 2007, Chester French's 60s pop-inspired sound took the band straight out of Harvard into a major label record deal (see story below: D.A. Wallach USM '03)
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