SUNY Broome has many interesting and accomplished students, alumni, faculty and staff. Here are some of their stories. The Spring 2022 semester is going to be full of big things for criminal justice student Logan Paine. In addition to completing the final classes required for her degree, preparing for civil service exams, and beginning her job hunt, she has the added blessing of expecting a baby boy in the last few weeks of An early morning phone call changed Yueqi Diao’s life. So much so, that she has committed the exact time of the call to memory. “At 6:46 a.m., our phone rang. My mom, who works 60 hours a week, was already at work, so I was the only one home to answer it. It was so While it is not uncommon for SUNY Broome students to work in addition to attending classes, some students experience more on the job perks than others. For second year nursing student Kaitlyn Dattoria, her part-time job has a particularly incredible bonus. “I have had the privilege (so far) to witness and assist with the births To say that life has been eventful for Becky Hopper since the last time that we featured her as a student would be a major understatement. In 2017, when we first interviewed Hopper, we highlighted her five-year plan. Even then, her story was rooted in resilience. (This is an excellent time to stop reading and When polled, most SUNY Broome students admit that the thing that they like least about being a student at SUNY Broome is walking on campus in the rainy, cold Binghamton weather. For Carlos Contreras, a native of Mexicali, Mexico, whose summer temperatures easily scorch to well over 110 degrees, the climate at SUNY Broome is The Covid-19 global pandemic took a substantial toll on American colleges and universities. One major hit was that travel constraints put a startling halt to international education. American students were not permitted to study abroad, and those restrictions were reciprocated to prevent foreign students from studying in the U.S. This was a huge blow to Sometimes life has plans for you that you never saw coming. Most times, those plans look nothing like the way you have always imagined them. Sometimes you have to be brave enough to trust those different plans and see where they take you. Growing up in Buffalo, NY, Josh Perez was raised “all boy”. He Sometimes mothers really do know best. At least that was the case for Edward “Eddie” Fabrizio when his mother said, “I think that you would thrive at SUNY Broome.” Eddie Fabrizio has always been interested in exploring his options for the future. When he was a student at Union Endicott High School, he took advantage SUNY Broome is delighted to highlight one of it’s most recent Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence honoree – Bryanna Wayman. For over two decades, the SUNY system has awarded it’s top honor to students representing each of the sixty-four SUNY campuses. Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence recipients are selected based on their academic achievements, campus Tatianna Young grew up in North Carolina, making her way to New York within the past few years. She is a first-generation college student pursuing an accelerated pathway to a bachelor’s degree from Binghamton University or Siena College. She is a member of Student Assembly, Phi Theta Kappa, Business Club, Anime Club, and winner of Feathery brushstrokes of dark black paint dance upwards to meet the center, where soft outlines form two figures embracing. Warm orange color radiates from behind them; the word “KIND” in bright white letters spread diagonally across the painting’s bottom. “I believe that warm things can change the dark in a person,” explains Yifan Yang, a Christina Thompson found her life’s calling at ten years old. In 2010, when Thompson was just a young girl, she lost her beloved cousin, Heather, to Cystic Fibrosis. Cystic Fibrosis is a genetic, progressive, chronic disease that typically impacts the lungs and digestive tract. While there have been many advancements in CF research and treatment
