Recent School of Nursing graduates spent the third week of March digging irrigation ditches and helping build trails at Ghost Ranch in Abiquiu, N.M., during a community service project.

Baker ends its stellar track season with one national champion, Jeremy Gathright in the 400 meters, and 12 All-Americans.

Former vice president for online studies at Ottawa University will lead School of Professional and Graduate Studies beginning in June.

The thermometer is just now beginning to catch up with the calendar and the tulips and other spring flowers have made their presence known throughout the flower beds that dot the beautiful Baldwin City campus. Perhaps spring is really here.

Called up to the New York Yankees in April, former Wildcat baseball standout Vidal Nuno posted his first victory in the majors May 1, in a 7-0 victory over the Cleveland Indians.

Rebecca Simkins and Madison Wendt have received the 2013 Harter Scholarships, the University’s most prestigious academic prize. Wendt is the daughter of Baker alumni Mark, ’86, and Shari (Nasseramini), ’90, Wendt.

Senior Sydney Doster has received a Fulbright Scholarship for the 2013-2014 academic year to teach English in Nepal.

While the Baker campuses were blanketed in snow, a few staff members and administrators enjoyed the opportunity to visit alumni and former students and their guests during a series of gatherings in Green Valley, Sun City West and Scottsdale, Ariz., and San Diego and San Francisco, Calif.

Trustee Susanne Richardson Teel, ’69, will honor President Pat Long’s leadership and commitment to students by naming the renovated student center after her.