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Quinn was a winner on the pitch and in the classroom. |
Two-time First-Team All-ODAC men’s soccer player
Kevan Quinn ’09 was a standout on both the pitch—the soccer field, that is—and in the classroom while at Randolph-Macon College.
During the past season, the two-time team captain earned First Team honors for the second consecutive season. The defenseman started 17 games for the Yellow Jackets and led R-MC with four goals, including two game winners, in 2008. The award capped an impressive career in which Quinn started all but two games in four seasons.
To read more Student Experience stories, click here."The staff and faculty at R-MC create a world where students can thrive. We're not just numbers, we're people with names, ideas, beliefs and goals,” says Quinn, who graduated on May 30, 2009 with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry. Those who attended this year's commencement program may have noticed that Quinn's hair was unusually long. That's because the community-minded Quinn was growing his hair so that he could donate it to Wigs for Kids, a service for Canadian children who have lost their hair due to radiation treatments.
“The opportunities I had at R-MC, such as summer research, I wouldn't have had anywhere else," says Quinn. "My friends back home tell me they would be lucky to get the research opportunities I had here in their second year of
graduate school.”
A member of the ODAC’s All-Academic team, this St. Catherines, Ontario native spent two summers participating in R-MC’s unique Schapiro Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program in the chemistry department. Quinn focused on developing palladium and platinum complexes to be used as catalysts in olefin (plastic) polymerization. He developed a handful of complexes and catalysts in the lab—one of which is believed to be brand new.
Quinn's post-R-MC plans are impressive: He will be teaching chemistry and coaching soccer, hockey and basketball at Lake Forest Academy in Lake Forest, Illinois. “It was a great experience and I learned so much,” says Quinn. “It was interesting to be involved in something that is so important to everyday life. I was working on making plastics, while my lab partners were researching possible cures for cancer. It was an exciting thing to be a part of and something I will never forget.”
Randolph-Macon is a proud member of NCAA Division III, the Old Dominion Athletic Conference and sponsors 15 intercollegiate sport.
For information on R-MC’s Schapiro Undergraduate Research (SURF) program, visit
http://www.rmc.edu/Academics/research/guidelines.aspx For information on R-MC’s chemistry department, visit
http://www.rmc.edu/academics/chemistry.aspx For information on R-MC’s men’s soccer, visit
http://www.rmcathletics.com/sports/msoc/index For more information about the breadth of programs and opportunities available at Randolph-Macon, contact our Admissions Office at (800) 888-1762 or at admissions@rmc.edu