What motivates nearly 50 people from just three families to earn 36 degrees in 10 different colleges at The University of Toledo? It has a lot to do with the home of the Rockets being the city of Toledo’s university. What Doug Ligibel calls ‘the hometown effect.’

Dr. Krystalyn Weaver (Pharm ’10, Pharm Ph.D. ’12) was passionate about pharmacy, but it was the advocacy opportunities she gained in her student leadership roles at The University of Toledo that helped guide her to a career focused on how government policy affects practicing pharmacists.

In 1989, my father, Zhong Chen, who was a professor in academia, was under pressure due to political turmoil in China. With the help of Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur, he secured a student visa to The University of Toledo to escape the unstable fallout of his home country, where he left his wife and 4-year-old son with a hug.