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Fiction is Still True: A Conversation with Brittany Hailer, MFACW ‘15
Author and journalist Brittany Hailer learned the power of listening and the strength of community in Chatham’s MFA Creative Writing program. She’s spun her diverse experience into the book Animal You’ll Surely Become, a genre-blending work of poetry and creative nonfiction.
Alumni Profile: Megan Gallagher '11
Megan Gallagher ‘11 didn’t set out to be a farmer, but life had other plans. An organic gardening class at Eden Hall set the wheels in motion for be.wild.er farm—Megan’s small but mighty start up farm.
Art History In The Cemetery
Why were 160 people itching to enter Allegheny Cemetery on October 12? The answer might surprise you. It's not ghost-hunting or grave-digging, it's art history.
Alumna and Campus Community Profile: Sarah Hamm, MFA '13
Social media undergoes constant change, and change is one thing that Chatham University Social Media Manager Sarah Hamm understands well.
Catching Up with Scott Marshall, BSUS ‘16 & Marshall’s Heritage Farm
Scott Marshall, BSUS ’16, owner and proprietor of Marshall’s Heritage Farm, has learned a lot of lessons in the past three years; one of which: “We work with mother nature, this is what we deal with.”
Alumna Profile: Lucie McGrane, DPT '17
In the year since Lucie McGrane graduated from Chatham University’s Doctor of Physical Therapy program, she has built an impressive career as a physical therapist for Broadway performers.
Alumna Profile: Sowmya Narayanan '10
Dr. Sowmya Narayanan just finished an MD/PhD program and is about to start her general surgical residency at UPMC. Still, she made time in her schedule to be the keynote speaker at Chatham’s first annual Department of Science Student Research Day.
Nola the Nurse and Scharmaine Baker-Lawson, DNP '08
It’s a drizzly morning in Shreveport, LA, but big band jazz pours from the loudspeakers inside the Greenwood Acres Full Gospel Baptist Church, and look—a giant mascot dressed as a nurse in a white uniform with a huge afro and long felt lashes is dancing up the aisle.