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Community Engagement: Exploring, Learning, & Teaching

Thomas Glenn, a junior double majoring in Education and Youth Studies and Spanish, began volunteering at the Stateline Literacy Council and connected with Ann Ward, the executive director of the Stateline Literacy Council, who allowed him to teach a beginning English class after he expressed interest in a teaching career.

Jasmin Anna Bowers ’25 receives Martha Peterson Prize for academic excellence and leadership

Jasmin Anna Bowers ’25 of Richmond, Texas, recipient of the 2025 Martha Peterson Prize, distinguished herself at Beloit with her academic excellence, leadership, and initiative outside the classroom. An outstanding student and community member, she exemplifies excellence in leadership, academics, and athletics.

Disrupting the binary in medieval lit

In Joseph Derosier ’s “Trans Before Trans” course this spring, students contemplate what it meant to perform gender in the Middle Ages and how queer experiences might be identified in medieval literature.

Ella Aizeki, co-leader of Todd Reading Buddies, is a senior majoring in cognitive science and music.

Leading and reading with elementary schoolers

Ella Aizeki ’25 and Dahlia Shearer ’25 are leading the Reading Buddies volunteer program at Todd Elementary this year. They share their experiences leading other student volunteers, working with children, and getting out into the Beloit community.

Farah Tolu-Honary’s view of a beautiful blue street in Tunesia.

“The world is never that far away”

Meet twins Farah and Ariana Tolu-Honary’24 and their younger sister, Mina’26. Though they run in different circles on campus and studied abroad in three different places to improve their language skills in three different languages, the sisters all share the goal of becoming teachers or professors.

A Minute With Garrison Ferone’22

The college recordholder for hits played top notch baseball and much more.

Garrison Ferone’23 at right, front after measuring, weighing, and checking the respiration of a sea turtle in the Galapagos.

Traveling the world and our own backyard

They conducted archaeological research on Neanderthal stone tools in North Macedonia and swam with sea lions in the Galapagos, trained as an EMT with the South Beloit Fire Department and studied environmental policy in Finland.

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