In The Wild

We're celebrating a huge milestone! Coach Melissa Brocato gets us excited for softball season and Jacob Burgamy recaps his first season as our season coaching the track and cross country teams including the behind scenes to our trip to Nationals. Also, our commencement speakers Aenea Clark and Jacob Sumpter share a sneak peak of their speeches and their favorite memories of campus. Finally, our one and only Provost MacKinnon drops by the give his personal highlights of the semester.

Stacy Roberts, lecturer in the Hull College of Business, joins us to give some motivation for those getting ready walk across the stage on Graduation Day.

This semester has been a wild ride. Catch up with our host and find out what's been going on.

Rachel Balducci, lecturer for Augusta University's department of Communication and author of No Such Thing as Ordinary: Unlocking Your Extraordinary Life Through Everyday Encounters with Jesus, joins us to share how she balances teaching, writing and her responsibilities at home. 

Cierra Williams, a senior computer science major, and Eduardo Ortiz, a senior chemistry major, are here to share their experiences of the being crowned.

We are understanding the Hispanic student experience with Dr. Elizabeth Huggins, director of First & Second Year Experience, and nursing student Ana Moreno. Huggins shares the resources available for our Hispanic students, and Moreno talks about her experience here and answers the question if Hispanic or Latinx students can thrive here.

It's officially fall which means most will find ways to think of others this season. This week, Tina Baggott, associate vice president for Volunteer Services & Community Engagement, and Kristie Johnson, our new community engagement manager, get us thinking about all the opportunities we can take part in this season. 

Days of Service, the university's biggest community service initiative will be here in November and you don't want to wait to register.

Along with the upcoming changes coming to campus (including the new parking deck on the Health Sciences campus), Dale Hartenburg shares the JagStore will be transitioning towards selling textbooks solely online. Tune in for the details for this transitions and details for the timeline for constructing the new parking deck.

The Augusta University volleyball team is one of the top teams in the region, and they want to go to Nationals. They had a successful pre-season, but now the real work begins. After making it to the Elite Eight for the first time in the program's history, they are confident their hard work will pay off this season. Assistant coach Deja Moorer and senior volleyball setter are her to get us excited for this season.