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  • Baseball Team Off to Good Start

    Baseball Team Off to Good Start

    Just a little more than one-third of the way through the season, Thomas Nelson baseball coach Todd Barker is confident his team is better than last year’s. “I just don’t…

  • Women in Male-Dominant Fields: Sgt. Shannon

    Women in Male-Dominant Fields: Sgt. Shannon

    Being elected as a co-chair of a task force subcommittee often is considered a burden, but not to Sgt. Kathy Shannon of the Thomas Nelson campus police. “To have that…

  • College Celebrates Basketball Team’s Championship Season

    College Celebrates Basketball Team’s Championship Season

    Coach Chris Moore and the men’s basketball team were the center of attention at a celebration Thursday afternoon on the Hampton campus. In discussing his team’s success in the 2021-22…

  • Dutch, a ‘Leader Among Equals’

    Dutch, a ‘Leader Among Equals’

    Monette Dutch delights in helping and being a resource. It’s how she approaches leadership in many ways. The director of TRiO Student Services at Thomas Nelson, Dutch values her team…

  • Military Student Spotlight: Meet Sgt. David DiMattia

    Military Student Spotlight: Meet Sgt. David DiMattia

    David DiMattia did not envision college in his life plan but eventually grew to understand the value of higher education. A sergeant based in Newport News at Joint Base-Langley Eustis,…

  • Military student profile: Meet Air Force Staff Sgt. Renaya Salmon

    Military student profile: Meet Air Force Staff Sgt. Renaya Salmon

    Renaya Salmon is an Air Force staff sergeant serving in Hampton at Joint Base Langley-Eustis seven years into date. Thomas Nelson is affording Salmon the foundation necessary to ultimately become…

  • Top Peninsula Executives, Government Officials Attend PELF

    Top Peninsula Executives, Government Officials Attend PELF

    The Peninsula’s top corporate executives and up-and-coming managers gathered Tuesday, Feb. 15 for the Peninsula Executive Leadership Forum (PELF) Winter program co-sponsored by Thomas Nelson and the Chamber at the…

  • Military Student Spotlight: Meet Army Corporal Timothy Smith

    Military Student Spotlight: Meet Army Corporal Timothy Smith

    Timothy Smith, an Army corporal serving at Fort Eustis, has his sights on a career in computer science. Smith has four years of active-duty service and views Thomas Nelson now…

  • Traveling No Worry for Basketball Player

    Traveling No Worry for Basketball Player

    A long commute hasn’t deterred Hezekiah Brown from playing basketball at Thomas Nelson. Hezekiah Brown, a first-year player on Thomas Nelson’s basketball team, said one of the biggest differences between…

  • UVA Credential Makes Three Degrees for Mathey

    UVA Credential Makes Three Degrees for Mathey

    Geri Mathey had many aspirations early on, but College was not on the radar. Born and raised in Japan, where her father worked as a civil servant at Army Camp…