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| Commerce graduate Adrienne Power is well known on campus from her student days as a track star. |
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The list includes a varied collection of self-starters ranging from theatre grad Kristen Bell who has recently been a theatre mainstay around Nova Scotia and is moving to Toronto to pursue her television and film career, to computer science grad Malcom Rodgers, who built a patient-information program for orthopedic doctors at the QE II. And what listing would be complete without commerce graduate Adrienne Power, well known on campus from her student days as a track star. The Daily News even shines a light on current students like international development and environmental science student Zo毛 Caron who also works with the Sierra Youth Coalition, so-ordinating a sustainable campuses program for the region and co-authoring a book on global warming with Green Party leader Elizabeth May.
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