A New Lease on Life
Mirroring the frenetic pace of her own life as a paramedic over the past decade, Laura Schappert ’08 & ’22 monitors honeybees frantically producing honey in the hive. The feisty pollinators evoke a feeling from her former career as a paramedic, rushing from one emergency to the next in the back of an ambulance—a profession she is now eager to leave behind as she pursues a degree in biology at SUNY Potsdam.