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Dr. Sammut was really helpful in getting me potential research experience and letting me be part of the ongoing research here at Franciscan. Most undergraduates don’t get that at big universities.

For Mark Hanlon, the understanding that each area of academic study is integrated with the next, coupled with personal formation, lead him to discover his vocation to cure personalis—care for the whole person.Mark says, “The synthesis of my biology, psychology, and philosophy classes at Franciscan University gave me a complete picture of the human person and helped me understand how the dimensions of man are integrated.”

For Diego Araujo ’17, Franciscan University prepared him for a life of ministering to youth and young adults in need of positivity in their lives.“Franciscan was a greenhouse that helped prepare me to encounter the secular world by rooting me in my faith,” Diego, a youth and young adult minister at Most Precious Blood Parish in Brooklyn, said.

While at Franciscan, Kevin Arkoosh, served a summer internship on Capitol Hill for U.S. Senator James E. Risch (R-ID). Today, Arkoosh works full-time for Senator Risch as a legislative assistant, tracking legislation on adoption, abortion, Native American affairs, housing, and other social issues, and fielding calls for help from citizens in his home state. While at Franciscan, Arkoosh says he benefited from his classes in political philosophy, American diplomatic history, and others, while playing rugby and serving as a residence assistant developed his leadership skills.

Sean Farrell is a law student at Indiana University McKinney School of Law. The challenging program builds on his time as a Franciscan undergraduate student.In addition to his studies, Farrell is a member of Indiana University’s Business Law Association, the Dean’s Tutorial Society, the Honor Society, and the Indiana International and Comparative Law Review. He has worked at a local prosecutor’s office, and next plans to work for a firm that specializes in helping businesses grow and develop.

  Elizabeth Feudo serves as a design production specialist for the Office of Lifelong Faith Formation at the Archdiocese of Boston. In addition to graphic design for print and social media, she has also worked on many branding projects for the archdiocese’s major evangelization programs, such as the Disciples in Mission Pastoral Plan.Because of the support and encouragement from her professors at Franciscan, Feudo graduated with seemingly limitless options. At Franciscan, she worked in graphic design and photography for the Department of Athletics, the Troubadour, the yearbook, and the Marketing and Communications Department. As a film studies minor, she created a film from scratch.

“The business world is no longer local,” says David Kirk ’11. He should know: he’s a financial analyst for Cisco, a company that designs networking systems to connect the global world.As a freshman, Kirk was one of the first Franciscan students to sign up for the newly launched international business major.“I’ve always liked to travel; I’ve always been intrigued by other cultures,” he says, “and the coursework in the major reflected that.” Because of his major, David got to spend a full year studying abroad in Austria, where he says he “was able to experience firsthand” what he was learning in his classes about global business practices.

“I honestly can’t think of anything it wouldn’t be helpful with,” Cate Levri says, reflecting on her years in Franciscan University of Steubenville’s Honors Program. “My classmates ended up everywhere, from med school to religious life!”Cate went on to receive her master of arts in historical and systematic theology at The Catholic University of America and is now a doctoral candidate in historical theology.