Mallory Terrence

Shortly after graduating high school in 2005, Amy Karwoski moved to New York City to continue her modeling career. While her high school friends spent their last summer together preparing for college, Karwoski was figuring out life in the city and occupied with work.

A drop of vaccine that is given under the tongue may one day be available for the flu, a virus that affects 10 to 20 percent of Americans each year. The sublingual (under the tongue) vaccine has only been tested on mice in Asia but appears to be more effective than current vaccines available to humans.

Cabrini College has always been a school strongly involved in the community and service projects helping those in need, making a community involvement course a requirement for graduation. Due to the amount of outreach work done by the Cabrini community, last fall Cabrini College was awarded a three-year grant from the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Minority Health to conduct a program to high school students in Norristown.

Imagine having four children and only one can of beans to feed them for dinner. This is a reality faced by people living in the Philadelphia area who are not able to make a dollar stretch far enough to feed their families. One in four Philadelphians lives in poverty, meaning a family of four makes less than $20,000.

Wikipedia, the constantly growing web-based encyclopedia, has many college professors concerned about the content of their student's papers. The free online encyclopedia is composed of peer-reviewed publications that allow anyone to contribute information.

The Philabundance food bank is working hard to make sure everyone in the Delaware Valley is going to have a full plate during the holiday season. Philabundance's goal is to have 3,000 turkeys available for families in the area to enjoy a traditional Thanksgiving dinner and with all the fixings.

A dramatic increase of depression among college students has become prevalent in the last decade. College students are often uninformed about depression and do not know where to turn when they feel overwhelmed, stressed and extremely sad. Some students are embarrassed by these feelings, not realizing depression is a biological cause and that there are many treatments available.