According to the U.S. Census Bureau, about 15 percent of U.S. college students are students of color. While learning to navigate college life can be tough for anyone, these students may face specific and unique concerns.

Aafke Loney didn’t plan for her family’s lifelong involvement in hockey to blend seamlessly with her passion for business; it just happened that way.

"It wasn’t my plan to run,” Pittsburgh City Councilwoman Deborah Gross told the roomful of women following the wine and cheese networking reception. “It came as a surprise when the councilman retired. I was holding the phone with one hand and writing a list of all the people I knew who could run, 150 or so, with the other. And then I thought I want to be the one to do this.”

You might say Georgena Terry forged her own path, but it would be the only cliché in her story.

Six undergraduate students spent four weeks in Taiwan, studying female entrepreneurs in small-scale, regionally-based restaurants and lodging businesses.

The workshops were designed to share sustainability principles with quick payoffs that participants could easily incorporate into their homes and lives.

In both non-profits, Hermalin noted some degree of reluctance to talk about the projects in terms of class and race; for example, a tendency to refer to “high crime” areas, which, she points out, “puts them (the speakers) in the position or reinforcing negative stereotypes even as they try to advocate for the community.”

Zig Osiecki thought that his Fellowship would be spent creating a more sustainable garden and a plan for its year-round use. He was wrong.