Why dream dreams when you can live them? Whether he’s playing football, singing or writing, Hayden Grover has lived out one dream after another at UA.
Drake Smalley began by building LEGOS. Now, after building orthopedic implants for real patients through his UA co-op, he’s building a career at Johnson & Johnson.
Emma Twardzik remembers being a “timid and hesitant” freshman. Now, thanks to the Akron Experience, she is a confident double major, soccer player, and intern at a local company.
Hands-on learning, three accessible hospitals, education abroad and a support system of friends and faculty at UA? The prognosis looks good for Hannah Stephen, an aspiring pediatrician.
Determined and curious, and a repeat winner of high school science fairs, Alena Veigl had the “potential energy” of a thundercloud. UA provided the rod, and the lightning struck.
Spencer Csaky, a computer whiz majoring in UA’s unique cybersecurities program, feared he would be “just another number” on campus. But there was a surprising — and welcome — glitch in his thinking.