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Cerebral palsy hasn’t stopped student Stevie Baum from continually besting her personal times in track and field and traveling with Messiah’s Collaboratory to ensure physically disabled people in Mali have access to water and sanitation facilities. The NCAA News recently featured Baum on their web site.

Messiah students gathered last night to pray for the Northern Illinois University community as it recovers from last week’s campus tragedy. The vigil was led by Michelle Graham, an Inter-Varsity employee on the campus of NIU.

One hundred percent of Messiah’s elementary, early childhood, and special education graduates in 2007 passed the Praxis Series assessments, an exam required for obtaining teacher certification in Pennsylvania and many other states.

Twenty-four Messiah students and two educators are safe after the plane they were traveling on was forced to make an emergency landing in West Palm Beach Florida. The group was returning from a J-Term cross-cultural trip to the French West Indies.

After four phenomenal years with the Falcons, senior soccer player Kai Kasigurn has been recognized as the DIII Player of the Year by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America. Kasiguran is the third Messiah player to earn this top honor.

The Career Center found a hands-on way to help students explore career fields by developing “Hit the Road,” a program that sent four teams of students on road trips to interview professionals in a variety of vocations. The success of the program was recently featured in the National Association of Colleges and Employers’ newsletter.

Students who participated in the program were required to keep a team journal, video record all interviews, and participate in their team’s blog. The participants responded favorably to their road trip experiences and cited the information gleaned during the interviews as helpful to shaping their own career decision-making.

“Hit the Road: Explore the Possibilities” received funding assistance from Enterprise Rent-a-Car and state professional association, PennACE.

As a midfielder for Messiah’s outstanding men’s soccer team, senior Kai Kasiguran is often noted for his excellence on the athletic field. Kasiguran is also an academic stand-out, and, in recognition of his 3.96 GPA, “ESPN, The Magazine” named Kasiguran an Academic All-American member of its College Division, First Team.

Four students from the department of management and business recently won the Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) Regional Financial Literacy Competition and will progress to the national championship where Messiah’s SIFE teams consistently place in the top 40.

Men’s and women’s cross country are celebrating second place MAC finishes. Two individual runners earned special recognitions - junior Frank Eanes as Conference Runner of the Year and first-year student Jen Kooser as Rookie Runner of the Year.

About the soccer-related attention he’s received, Kai Kasiguran `08 told Campus Life’s Christian College Guide, “All the publicity is great, but what’s even better is I’m doing something I love and serving God while doing it.”