Where Will Your Path Lead?

WHERE W ILL YOUR PATH LEAD?

Transylvania

DREAM.

TACKLE ENORMOUS

succeed because Transylvania gives you the freedom to discover what really motivates you — your true passion — and the opportunities on and off campus to push yourself and your abilities.

succeed because you develop the tools and the confidence to be courageous.

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Graphic Designer

Stanford School of Medicine

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U.S. Department of Defense

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Analyst

International

Disney

Principal Project Engineer

| Senior Program Manager of Map Operations

University

Tour |

Vice

World Parks

Corporate Communications

Vantiv

Vice President of Cyber Security

University

Johns Hopkins University

Cambridge University

VAMC |

Emergency Medicine

National Security Council | Technical Information Specialist

Centers for Disease Control | Public Health Veterinarian and Health Scientist

Harvard Law School

Shepherd Therapeutics | Founder and CEO

Vanderbilt University

Creative Director of Virtual Environments

Penn State University

Domino’s | VP of Franchise Development and Recruiting

Facebook | Engineering Manager

London School of Economics and Political Science

Talk Show Host

| Aviculturist

Columbia University

Duke University

Chief United States District Judge

Harvard College Women’s Center | Director

Xavier University

Enuma | Educational Game Design Consultant

NASA | Technical Adviser

Bank of America | Senior Vice President

New York University

“The best thing at Transy, in my opinion, is the opportunity for research in the hard sciences.”

Christine Phipps '19

PH.D. STUDENT, UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE

The ability to conduct and present high-level research beginning in her first year helped Christine Phipps gain valuable experience compared to many of her peers at other institutions. She received an American Institute of Chemists award and was awarded a full scholarship and stipend to pursue a Ph.D. in chemistry at the University of Louisville.

Tim Meko is finding new ways to tell visual stories that explain the news with maps, graphics and interactive data visualization in one of America’s most innovative newsrooms. He designed his own major at Transy, blending creative coding and art with communications courses.

“More than anything, Transy taught me how to learn. That’s a skill I use absolutely every single day, as I switch from mapping the Rohingya crisis in Burma to diagramming how climate change and wildfires can lead to mudslides in California.”

Tim Meko

DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF GRAPHICS

WASHINGTON POST

D.C.

WHAT PARADIGM WILL YOU SHIFT?

Some people call it thinking outside the box, bucking the system, disrupting the status quo.

Fact is, Pioneers learn to think structurally, to see the big picture, to identify the problem, then analyze and innovate solutions.

Pioneers find new ways of getting there.

Jeanne Henzel Swartz ’95 has translated her studio art degree into a successful artisan curtain and upholstery business in California. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she shifted her focus to making face shields for health care workers.

Jeanne Henzel Swartz '95

FOUNDER JOONA FABRICULTURE IN ALAMEDA, CALIFORNIA

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A tech entrepreneur, Mike Finley has 14 patents and is currently focused in the field of artificial intelligence. In addition to his internship at IBM, he triple-majored in physics, math and computer science. He uses it all in his quest to find his next innovative idea. He is a 100 Doors mentor.

Mike Finley '90

CO-FOUNDER OF ANSWERROCKET IN ATLANTA

HOW WILL YOU FIX BROKEN SYSTEMS?

Cole Rucker is revolutionizing mental health care for teens by flipping the old compliance-based approach on its head and treating adolescents as equal partners in their care.

“At Transy we always had this great history to fall back on, a solid academic foundation to stand on, yet we were encouraged to be innovative, to look at things differently and to take chances.”

Cole Rucker '85

CO FOUNDER AND CEO OF PARADIGM MALIBU TEEN TREATMENT CENTER IN MALIBU, CALIFORNIA

“I knew I needed experience abroad; I knew I needed language training. I was incredibly grateful that Transy encourages their students to broaden their horizons.”

Janelle

POLICY ASSISTANT AT THE SIMON SKJODT CENTER FOR THE PREVENTION OF GENOCIDE AT THE U.S. HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM IN WASHINGTON, D.C.

HOW WILL YOU MAKE A DREAM YOUR REALITY?

Every kid who has played sports imagines growing up and playing for their favorite team.

As a young baseball fanatic raised in Cincinnati, Katie Hulsman’s team was her hometown Reds. And while she may not come to work with her name on the back of a uniform, she’s very much a part of the club.

The computer science major and softball player chose Transylvania because she knew that the small classes and care from professors would help her succeed. Now she’s hit a home run, using both the technology and critical thinking skills she learned at Transy.

READ MORE ABOUT KATIE’S STORY

transy.edu/hulsman

“Whether it was my computer science classes or my psychology minor, Transy taught me how to question things and be a lifelong learner.”

Katie Hulsman '16 APPLICATION DEVELOPER, CINCINNATI REDS

Lydia Lissanu’s love of sociology, biology and political science led her to a career in public health education in Chicago. Working with residents on the South Side, she shares her liberal arts experience in her daily work. She asks the big questions, thinks structurally and empathetically, makes creative connections and guides young people to do the same. Captivated by the profession — the people, science, policy and possibility — and motivated by the desire to find solutions to intractable challenges, Lissanu is now equipping herself with medical and public health degrees in order to be effective from every angle — treating patients and changing public policy. “I want to do more,” she says.

Lydia Lissanu

FROM PUBLIC HEALTH EDUCATOR, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, TO THE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

ABOUT LYDIA’S STORY

HOW WILL YOU TAKE A STAND?

As a palliative care chaplain at the University of Kentucky’s Chandler Hospital, Kathryn Perry puts herself aside to listen carefully to the needs of the most vulnerable. She connects with people at the end of their lives through their stories, providing physical, spiritual and emotional support.

Kathryn Perry '10

PALLIATIVE CARE CHAPLAIN AT UK’S CHANDLER HOSPITAL LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY

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of our students recommended to law schools are accepted.

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In addition to his work in legal services and immigration advocacy, Joshua Santana co-founded Central Music Academy, providing free music lessons to students who can’t afford them. Growing up in Spanish Harlem, he learned how music and education could change the trajectory of a young life. He’s a 100 Doors mentor.

Joshua Santana '70

SANTANA LAW OFFICE, PSC, IN LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY

90%

of our students recommended to medical schools and other health professions programs are admitted.

WHAT DISCOVERIES

WILL YOU MAKE?

A NASA physicist and author of popular-science and science-fiction books, Les Johnson is the technology manager for the Marshall Space Flight Center and the Solar Sail principal investigator for the Near-Earth Asteroid Scout mission launching on the Artemis 1 rocket.

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“I see some real problems facing us as a world, with energy and the environment. I think things we’re doing in space can help solve some of those problems. And if we don’t start working on them now, then the solution gets postponed. We’d better start now.”

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NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER transy.edu/les-johnson

READ MORE ABOUT LES’ STORY

Jerry Grant ’81, acting chair, oral health and rehabilitation at the University of Louisville, worked with an interdisciplinary team to create a way to manufacture COVID-19 testing swabs using 3D printing, helping to address the commonwealth’s dire shortage.

Jerry Grant '81

UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE

A postdoctoral fellow at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Jessica Marie Konen is working to revolutionize lung cancer therapy in many types of tumors. She credits her professors for mentoring her through research opportunities that helped her get into graduate school at Emory University.

Jessica Marie Konen

POSTDOC FELLOW AT MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER IN HOUSTON, PH.D. IN CANCER BIOLOGY FROM EMORY UNIVERSITY

HOW WILL YOU GO FORTH AND BE BRILLIANT?*

You want to make the world a better place. We want to help. Transylvania strives to make you career-ready. Our Pioneers are known to employers and top graduate programs as the complete package: creative, tenacious and possessing the essential toolkit of academic excellence, soft skills and real-world experience.

“Transy and the liberal arts education is rich and varied, and I think it makes me a better businessperson.”

*A phrase familiar to students of Sharon Brown, professor of exercise science, who involves students in research that takes them all over the world.

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