College Credits: Student Designs Logo For Campus COVID Campaign

Plainfield IL

20 October, 2021

3:40 PM

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PLAINFIELD, IL — We're keeping track of all the major higher education accomplishments of students in the area. Send your submissions to [email protected]. Student from Plainfield enrolls at James Madison University Plainfield resident Cole Collander has enrolled at James Madison University for the fall 2021 semester. Collander selected major is international affairs. — Merit Page News Student at UW-Whitewater softball honored for academics Meghan Dunning, a native of Plainfield, IL, and graduate of PlainfieldSouth High School, was one of 22 members of the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater softball team who were selected as 2021 Easton/National Fastpitch Coaches Association All-America Scholar-Athletes. Dunning is majoring in communication sciences and disorders at UW-Whitewater. She was a part of the Warhawks during the 2021 season. UW-Whitewater was also recognized as a 2021 Easton/National Fastpitch Coaches Association Top-10 Grade Point Average Team. The Warhawks recorded a 3.791 GPA during the 2020-21 year, the seventh-highest in NCAA Division III. All 22 student-athletes helped the 2021 Warhawks win the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference regular-season championship for the fourth straight season. The team finished the year with a 29-10 record after reaching the WIAC Tournament championship series. — Merit Page News Plainfield student is helping with a COVID-19 vaccine campaign on campus Bradley nursing students are using their knowledge and skills to encourage their classmates to get vaccinated with their dual-purpose campaign, "Bradley Pride for Vaccination." Their first goal is to urge members of the Bradley community to get vaccinated. By receiving the vaccine themselves, they're setting an example and urging others to do the same. Another goal of the campaign is to raise funds. To do this, two Bradley students came up with a logo (viewable via the attachment) to use on T-shirts, sweatshirts, cell phones cases and more. Bradley nursing student Hannah Marshall, of Plainfield, IL, was the visionary behind the logo. She imagined a design that would feature the university's mascot, Kaboom!, posing as World War II advertising icon "Rosie the Riveter" to evoke a sense of pride in people doing their part to slow the spread of COVID-19. Paired with the design is the slogan "Protecting you and me on the Hilltop - Vaccinated Bradley." Marshall teamed up with Anna Margarites, an entrepreneurship student minoring in graphic design from Libertyville, IL, to bring the idea to life. Their finished product is currently being sold on the University Tees website. Proceeds will go toward helping nursing students who need financial assistance for textbooks, computers, NCLEX prep courses and other essentials; it will also support sending the Bradley Nursing Student Association (BNSA) executive committee to the National Student Nurse Association Conference, an annual conference in which students are required to pay to participate. — Merit Page News Local student enrolls at SUNY Delhi Local student Molly Stevens of Plainfield has enrolled at SUNY Delhi. Stevens is pursuing a degree in Adventure Recreation. — Merit Page News Locals named to dean's list at Biola University Approximately 1,700 students were named to the Biola University Dean's List in spring 2021. Biola students are placed on the dean's list to honor those with a GPA of 3.6 or higher while enrolled in 12 or more credits and whose cumulative GPA is at least 3.2. The following local residents were named to the dean's list: Andrew DiNaso of Plainfield (60544), majoring in Cinema and Media Arts.Samuel Vance of Plainfield (60585), majoring in Music. — Merit Page News (For more news and information like this, subscribe to the Plainfield Patch for free. If you have an iPhone, click here to get the free Patch iPhone app; download the free Patch Android app here. Don't forget to like us on Facebook!)