Beautiful weather and a Bison football win over University of New England made for a happy Homecoming 2018. Other notable happenings … Some 20 members of the Class of 1968 were installed as the newest Golden Bison and raised more than $55,000 toward their class scholarship. Kent Tarrant ’57 received the Ken Thompson Service Award […]
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Lee Cappola ’92 Appointed to Nichols Board of Advisors
Lee Cappola ‘92 of Fiskdale, Mass., has been appointed to the Nichols College Board of Advisors. He is chief information officer for the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs. Cappola graduated from Nichols, where he earned his bachelor’s degree in Management Information Systems, in 1992. With over 25 years of information technology leadership […]
Nichols Receives Gift From Coghlin Co. Chair to Establish Endowed Scholarship
Nichols College has received a $25,000 gift from 1967 graduate James W. Coghlin Sr., chairman and co-founder of Westborough-based Coghlin Companies Inc., a family-owned engineering and manufacturing firm; along with his wife Nancy and their family, of the 15-40 Connection, a non-profit organization aimed at educating and empowering people about early cancer detection. The James […]
Nichols Students Meet Alumni Who Work for New Balance, Tesla
BY JILLIAN RICHES Eight Nichols College students had the opportunity last week to visit alumni Jesse Plouffe ’03 and Alexa Smith ‘16 of New Balance and Connor Anderson ’17 of Tesla. A couple of the students reflected on the networking experience: “I appreciated how Connor Anderson was able to share his experiences as such a […]
New Scholarships Fete Faculty
At the annual Board of Trustees/Board of Advisors lunch in October, Nichols College announced the creation of the Professor Jack Armstrong Endowed Scholarship for Excellence in Accounting, an effort started by regional accounting firms to recognize Armstrong’s contributions to the field in honor of his upcoming retirement from Nichols. In the past year, two other […]