hances are, you’ve heard Higgins’ voice. The music alumna was the voice of Disney Channel in the late 90s and early 2000s along with several lines of Fisher-Price toys. In addition, Higgins plays multiple globally recognized characters across award-winning anime, including Sakura Haruno in Naruto, Sailor Mercury in the Viz Media adaptations of Sailor Moon and Nanao Ise in Bleach. If you’re a video game fan, you can find her voice in series such as Zelda, Mario, Sonic the Hedgehog and Silent Hill. Higgins has also released multiple jazz records across several platforms.

“The first time it dawned on me that thousands of people have heard my voice was on the nightly news,” Higgins said. “They did a story about teaching kids to save money and in the background, they showed a kid playing with a piggy bank toy that I voiced.”

“The phone rang,” said Baynes, an NFL official since 2008. “It was my position supervisor, Doug Rosenbaum, and he said, ‘I’ve got some good and bad news for you.’ I said, ‘Well, give me the bad news first.’ He said, ‘Keep your travel bag out because you’re still traveling, and the good news is that you’ve had a great year and you’re being assigned to work the Super Bowl.’

amkorun applied and was accepted to the Fulbright Teachers for Global Classrooms Program, which trains teachers to create internationally informed learning environments so that their students stand out in the workforce.

Loachapoka High School is a rural school in Auburn that primarily serves minority and low-income students. Ramkorun applied for the program to bring them more opportunities for a well-rounded education.

“My students are growing up in a world that’s different than the one that I grew up in. It’s increasingly globalized, to a large part, thanks to social media,” Ramkorun said. “The likelihood that my students will work with someone who doesn’t look like them, who maybe even doesn’t speak the same native tongue as them, is really, really high.”

After taking an online course on globalized education, Ramkorun connected to a teacher in Ann Arbor, Michigan, for a small cultural exchange and attended a global education symposium in Washington, D.C., to prepare for her field experience.

eterinary social work is the practice that attends to the human needs that arise in the intersection of veterinary medicine and social work. I’m not a therapist for animals, but you could definitely make comparisons of my role to that of a social worker at a human hospital,” Spiotta said. “I really just assist our pet owners in navigating the emotional complexities of their relationship with their animals, and that is just so important because I don’t think people realize how important animals are to people.”

For many people, pets are part of the family. Animals can provide emotional and social support, physical assistance and routine. Research also suggests animals relieve stress, improve communication skills and boost confidence.

was the little fourth grader who set her alarm clock for 5:30 a.m. every morning so I could read “Nancy Drew” before getting ready for school. In fifth grade, I set the school record for the most Accelerated Reader points at my elementary school. So really, it came as no surprise to anyone that I came into Auburn as an English-Literature major and a history minor with the career of publishing in mind. I’d found that words have power and stories change the world, and I wanted to be in on the action.

In college, I often joked that my education taught me a lot of facts I probably couldn’t even use to win trivia. In actuality, as I enrolled in classes like “Medieval England” and “The History of the English Language,” I gained perspective on how important and influential words, poems and narratives have been throughout time.