Get to know Alumni Council member Gregg Froio in three questions that showcase how his partnership with the Alumni Engagement team builds Widener community in Florida.
Widener’s extensive partnerships connect many of the university’s values: service to others, a legacy of giving back, commitment to innovation and leading the way for the next generation.
For Mike and Marietta Borinski, who met at Widener in the 1970s, giving back means helping to shape innovative opportunities like they experienced as students.
The new Anna Mosco and Marietta Borinski ’80 Simulation Laboratory boasts simulated and virtual reality technology enabling Widener nursing students to excel in clinical practice.
With Widener's new construction management major set to launch soon, engineering students visited the rebuilt I-95 bridge site after its collapse in June 2023 for a lesson on the transformational power of construction management and engineering.
Giving back to Widener has taken on a whole new meaning for Rich Massi ’97 now that his son is also a member of the Pride.
Inspired by his stories, and a feeling that Widener was home, nursing major and ROTC cadet Meghan Rampolla ’25 has followed in her grandfather’s proud footsteps.
Built on a more than 160-year legacy of adaptation, the School of Engineering is embarking on its next chapter, under new leadership and with new programs designed to prepare students for the careers and challenges of tomorrow.
The Widener Marching Band is marking its five-year anniversary, but bands at the university’s predecessor institutions stretch back at least to 1864 in the form of drum and bugle units. That milestone and legacy were honored during Homecoming Weekend.
Leth Oun, author of A Refugee’s American Dream: From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to the U.S. Secret Service, built the foundation for his U.S. Secret Service career at Widener.