Eleven members of the 2015-16 Assumption College women's soccer team traveled to Haiti over the winter break to volunteer their time working with children in the impoverished country. This marks the second year in a row that members of the women's soccer team have been involved with the project, in conjunction with the Hands Together organization.

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WATCH VIDEO OF THE HOUNDS IN HAITI HERE!

The eleven Hounds to make the trip increased from four last year and include Paige Radomski (Kingston, Mass. / Silver Lake Regional), Meg Campbell (Springfield, Mass. / Cathedral), Katie Bealka (Freetown, Mass. / Apponequet Regional), Caroline Arnold (Foxboro, Mass. / Bishop Feehan), Nikki Callini (West Springfield, Mass. / West Springfield), Kelsey Pietruska (Durham, Conn. / Mercy), Tayla Morais (Taunton, Mass. / Taunton), Amanda Arnold (Saco, Maine / Thornton Academy), Carolyn Cook (South Hamilton, Mass. / Hamilton-Wenham Regional), Kallie Villemaire (Plattsburgh, N.Y. / Beekmantown) and Rose Lipinski (East Bridgewater, Mass. / East Bridgewater Jr-Sr).

Hands Together is a nonprofit organization devoted to educating, inspiring and encouraging people to understand the importance of responding to the needs of the poor and disadvantaged. The organization has several project locations, including Hands Together Catholic Schools.

Telegram and Gazette 4/5/16

WORCESTER – With snow swirling around the shivering crowd that came out for the occasion, Assumption College officials Monday afternoon broke ground on a new academic building on campus.

The planned 60,000-square-foot building, the college’s first major construction project since the Testa Science Center a dozen years ago, is expected to open in the fall of 2017.

Slated to go up between Fuller Hall and the Hagan Campus Center, the center is more than just a new addition at the school, Assumption’s President Francesco C. Cesareo said in his address. It's also “a visible manifestation of the centrality of the intellectual life of the campus and a manifestation of the mission of the institution,” he said.

Described by college officials as “state of the art,” the new academic center will feature seminar rooms, common study spaces, and a 400-seat performance hall equipped with high-tech acoustic systems. It will also contain 13 classrooms designed for “group-based learning” rather than traditional lecture-based instruction, said the project architect, Stephen Van Dyke of Nault Architects Inc. in Worcester.