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What a future we’re building together! QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY

Austin Tang — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 18:57:57 +0000

As the holiday season approaches, we’re filled with gratitude. It’s the perfect time to reflect on the incredible impact made possible by our generous Quinnipiac community. Quinnipiac is proud to celebrate you with our 2024–25 Impact Report, a testament to the power of your philanthropy, passion, and unwavering support.

The extraordinary momentum we’ve experienced would not be possible without you. Thanks to your generous support, Quinnipiac continues to grow and thrive. We welcomed more than 4,000 new students this year, including the largest graduate class in our history and the second-largest incoming undergraduate class. And this past May, we proudly conferred degrees to 2,891 graduates, each one prepared to lead, serve and shape the future.

Philanthropy plays a vital role in making that kind of impact possible. Your support fuels student scholarships and financial aid, launches innovative programs, advances faculty excellence and leadership, and allows us to invest in new capital projects which define a Quinnipiac education. Because of you, our students are not only achieving academic success — they’re engaging with their communities, pursuing bold ambitions and stepping confidently into the world.

As we look ahead to our centennial in 2029 and accelerate the momentum of For the Ambitious: A Campaign for the Next Century, we remain focused on creating access, opportunity and excellence for every student. With every gift, you help unlock the full potential of a Quinnipiac education.

Thank you for your generosity and ambition, and for helping us build what’s next. With gratitude,

Nick Wormley ’00, MBA ’02

Vice President of Development and Alumni Affairs

Alumnus, Q Couple, Former Student-Athlete, School of Business, Fan, Employee, Donor

2024-25 Impact Report

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Zhou the Artist——A Dreamer and His Dreamland

admin — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 17:43:41 +0000

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By Blair Z, Wall Street Media
In a word, artist Zhou’s works can be described as generous and
giving, a dreamer who dreams and sow seeds of dream as he travels
100,000 miles a year across China and around the world.
It is common in art for the artist to exaggerate their themes, whether it
be beauty or anguish. In this respect, Mr. Zhou is rather stock.
However, the way in which he chooses to exaggerate his themes is
anything but.
This past Friday on Oct 19, Mr, Zhou had an art exhibit at the United
Nations Headquarter in New York City. His subject matter was the
national parks of America, ranging from Yellowstone Park to the
Niagara Falls.
As a visitor to the States, Mr. Zhou’s time was limited: He had only 40
days to both acquaint himself with his subject and put his themes
onto canvas. Mr. Zhou not only had managed this challenge, he did it
in, well, flying colors. 37 brilliant oil paintings are a feast to art lovers
to savvy and enjoy, such as me, a member of millennium generation
busy making a living in the vast and expensive city with no time nor
means to travel, to stop and to draw.
On the canvases lining the West Terrace of the UN headquarters
were layers upon layers of rich and vibrant paint. Just going by color
scheme alone it is hard to make the connection between these
brilliant patches of color, still seemingly wet, to the arid landscape of
Yellowstone Park. Yet, it is this National Park located atop a volcano
that comes to mind to all those who see it.

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LES PAUL FOUNDATION BESTOWS GENEROUS GRANT ON RAMAPO COLLEGE

admin — Tue, 12 Nov 2013 19:37:25 +0000

Gift will fund innovative music production studio unique in region

Following the lead of music legend Les Paul, Ramapo College of New Jersey will build a state-of-the-art music studio that will educate the musical luminaries of the future in a hybrid facility that bridges the worlds of analog and digital sound.

The generous financial gift was announced today by the Les Paul Foundation and the Foundation of Ramapo College of New Jersey. Paul, who pushed boundaries as a performer and technologist, lived in Mahwah. Michael Braunstein, Executive Director of the Les Paul Foundation and Rusty Paul, Les’ son, made the presentation to

Dr. Peter Phillip Mercer, President of Ramapo College, represented by a customized Ramapo and Les Paul Foundation Gibson Les Paul guitar along with a presentation check.

“Les Paul would be honored to see how his life will now influence so many students of tomorrow,” said Michael Braunstein, Executive Director, Les Paul Foundation. “He was always inventing, creating and looking to the future in everything he did. We know that this grant from the Les Paul Foundation will foster Les Paul’s legacy through the advancement of technology at Ramapo.”

“This generous gift from the Les Paul Foundation will provide our students with a broad historical foundation of industry standard analog technologies while taking advantage of tremendous developments in digital technology,” said Ramapo President Peter P. Mercer. “It presents the best of both worlds.”

The College’s current studio was built more than 30 years ago; it already attracts a blend of students who are pushing aside limitations to create new visions of what music can be.

“We concentrate, in the tradition of Les Paul, on the whole musician,” said Assistant Professor of Music Seth Cluett. “We teach audio engineering, live sound engineering and music production to people who are themselves singer songwriters, pop musicians, hip hop producers and DJs.”

The centerpiece of the new studio will be a hybrid digital/analog SSL AWS924 console that will allow the teaching of classic, historical, and foundational mixing techniques in an environment that takes advantage of contemporary computer control and recording practices. Directly in line with the Les Paul Foundation mission, the studio will emphasize Les Paul’s innovation by including modern state-of-the-art facilities and equipment. In order to make the program a national destination, the studio will offer exposure to microphone types and technologies common to all recording studios and production facilities.

The College’s music curriculum emphasizes Paul as a guitarist, innovator and entrepreneur.

Paul is introduced to students as an inventor of multi-track recording. His departures with electric guitars and echo chambers help to teach how the electric guitar and amplification developed and changed guitar-playing techniques and performance practices and expanded his own artistic expression, as well as that of others.

In music production courses, invention, innovation, and experimentation are emphasized as elements in the development of personal style. Concepts of combining performer and technician are developed with Paul and other artists as models of ideal practice.

Since 2011, the College’s music program and the Mahwah Museum have co-hosted an annual Les Paul Tribute Festival to celebrate his legacy through education and performance. Students, faculty, staff, and the local community have attended these events, which have included guest lectures, master classes, and concerts in the Berrie Center’s Sharp Theater. The next festival will be held February 5 through 8, 2014. Lectures and hands-on master classes in music performance courses will continue in Les Paul’s honor.

For more information about the Les Paul Foundation, click here: www.lespaulfoundation.org

About Ramapo College of New Jersey:

Ranked by U.S. News & World Report as sixth in the Best Regional Universities North category, Ramapo College of New Jersey is sometimes mistaken for a private college. This is, in part, due to its unique interdisciplinary academic structure, its size of approximately 6,008 students and its pastoral setting in the foothills of the Ramapo Mountains on the New Jersey/New York border.

Established in 1969, Ramapo College offers bachelor’s degrees in the arts, business, humanities, social sciences and the sciences, as well as in professional studies, which include nursing and social work. In addition, Ramapo College offers courses leading to teacher certification at the elementary and secondary levels. The College also offers six graduate programs as well as articulated programs with the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, New York Chiropractic College, New York University College of Dentistry, SUNY State College of Optometry and New York College of Podiatric Medicine.

About the Les Paul Foundation:

Les Paul formed his foundation to encourage young people to pursue their curiosity and innovation about music, sound and engineering. Recent grants from the Les Paul Foundation include funding to multiple music education programs and to museums that tell the Les Paul story. The foundation’s comprehensive website at www.lespaulfoundation.org connects viewers to numerous resources. The mission of the Les Paul Foundation is to honor and share the life, spirit and legacy of Les Paul by supporting music education, engineering and innovation as well as medical research. The foundation is based in New York. Follow the Les Paul Foundation at www.facebook.com/lespaulfoundation.

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