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Kailey Soller ’11 is making huge strides in healthcare diagnostics for patients and their families
and business development manager at Beckman Coulter Diagnostics in Chaska
When Kailey Soller ’11 was a young child
her cousin was diagnosed with a devastatingly rare disease
“There was so little research on the disease at that time
I want to contribute in making an impact in patients’ lives,’” Soller says
that desire combined with her curiosity about how and why things work has made Soller a scientist following God’s call and making huge strides in healthcare diagnostics for patients and their families.“We’ve been commanded as Christians to help others and find ways to try to improve each other's lives,” she says.
As senior strategy, innovation, and business development manager at Beckman Coulter Diagnostics in Chaska
Soller is able to combine her innate aptitude for deciphering scientific data and her compassion for others
“I love to be at the bench doing the actual lab work
“But I also want to know more about the business as a whole
Who are the patients that we’re serving
She and the Beckman Coulter team recently launched a new version of an instrument that tests blood
“If you’ve ever had your blood drawn and then shipped to the lab—we’re the ones who create the instrumentation that runs that blood to check hormone levels and reagents and assays,” Soller says
“Our new version is much more sensitive and precise.” And for patients
this means clear results the first time around
Seeing that come to fruition—bringing a new
successful platform to a market that’s regulated by the FDA—has taken many years
but Soller says it’s been fulfilling
Now she’s working on a project in the neurodegenerative disease space
looking at diagnostics for Alzheimer’s disease
“It’s a new and emerging field
and it’s a little unclear where it’s all going to go
but we want to get the diagnostics out there to help patients get diagnosed early,” she says
“Then they can maybe start treatment earlier
It’s such a personal disease that affects so many people
so it’s really rewarding to be a part of this.”
By the time Soller arrived at Bethel as an undergraduate, she knew she wanted to go into science, and she knew she didn’t want to be a doctor. Beyond that, she wasn’t sure. She jumped into life on campus: tutoring in the science department, participating in a small group on her freshman floor, becoming a Shift leader
Neibergall and I would work in the lab together side by side
or he’d be teaching me in his office for hours about how to read a DNA sequence and how to understand it and what that meant,” Soller says
“It was just a very personal kind of one-on-one mentoring and investment in me as I was getting started in my scientific career.”
she got to present at a conference with her professors and found she really liked the more in-depth level of research
“It was a turning point for me—just seeing the scientific research presented in that way within a large scientific community,” she says
She began to consider grad school at the encouragement of some of her professors
but she wanted to try out the industry first without a Ph.D
While studying chemistry and biochemstry during her time at Bethel
Soller '11 worked closely with Chemistry Professor Matt Neibergall and came to love presenting research
“I felt like the research I did at Bethel prepared me really well for my graduate program
I was equipped to handle the disappointments that come with experimenting.”
After graduating from Bethel in 2011 with a B.A. chemistry and a B.S. in biochemistry and molecular biology, Soller secured a full-time position at R&D Systems—where she had been interning—in their research labs
she enrolled at the University of Minnesota
where she studied protein-protein interactions involved in heart failure and heart function
“I felt like the research I did at Bethel prepared me really well for my graduate program,” she says
“I was equipped to handle the disappointments that come with experimenting
You need the mindset of a scientist: no data is bad data
It's just telling you what doesn't work and that you have to look in a different direction.”
Soller landed at Beckman Coulter and returned to Bethel as an adjunct professor for two years
I really liked the mentorship side of teaching and interacting with students,” she says
And she was able to share her scientific career path with students interested in science but maybe not medicine
“It was always surprising to people when I would say that I didn’t want to become a doctor
or I didn't want to be in medicine as a scientist,” Soller says
I wanted to engage with students who felt the same way that I did
and show them all these other paths that they could take within science and even within the healthcare field
but not necessarily confined to direct patient care.”
In addition to her role at Beckman Coulter, Soller is on the board of directors for the Minnesota Academy of Science (MAS)
The nonprofit focuses on STEM education for K-12 students and hosts an annual state science and engineering fair for which Soller serves as a judge
MAS works to attract more students—particularly those in underserved communities—into STEM
“We focus on bringing programming to them that’s really accessible and meets them where they are,” says Soller
“We try to showcase STEM in a way that’s fun and current—not just a very boring recipe experiment.” This includes community play days and events at local libraries where the whole family can get involved
“We’re engaging with people in a way that they can understand
and it’s not threatening,” says Soller
“It’s just trying to improve scientific literacy and engagement for everyone and trying to build up those younger students
“Science is God’s way of allowing us to explore and understand His creation deeply.”
And Soller holds two other important roles: wife and mom
met their freshman year at Bethel and have been married 12 years; they have two girls
they love Minnesota and enjoy hiking and traveling.
Soller plans to continue finding ways to improve patients’ lives and along the way hopes to encourage others who feel a similar calling
Soller says not to get hung up on the oft-assumed dissonance between science and Christianity
“Both scientists and Christians feel like sometimes science and Christianity don’t necessarily go well together
But I see it as the opposite,” Soller says
“Science is God’s way of allowing us to explore and understand His creation deeply
There are so many precise things in science that you’re like
‘how could this possibly be without God having a hand in this?’ They’re really just intricately and beautifully tied together.”
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it's an absurd Thanksgiving comedy," says Soller
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Blake Soller graduated from Chesterton High School as a young man
unsure of what he wanted from life and a career
Soller teaches English at Chesterton High School
having found an unlikely sense of drive and purpose through his service with the United States Military and inspiration from his wife.
and transferred to Chesterton High School in his junior year
but education was not a pathway he knew he would take.
I had no idea what I wanted to do,” said Soller
“I had done a short apprenticeship in HVAC
and I worked at the Dunes National Lakeshore
where he became one of only about 250 dog trainers
Soller discovered a personal affinity for teaching animals and took that skill to teach people
he was told that he should have been a school teacher.
Through the repetition of helping people out and teaching them how to do different things
that what I most enjoyed was mentoring people who may not have ever had somebody to step in and help them.”
Soller was encouraged to attend college by his wife
he found great enjoyment in furthering his education
Soller began taking two college courses and continued through higher education for 12 years
“I was not a great student in high school,” said Soller
“When I received my PhD in education in 2019
that was when I realized how much I had changed from 20 years ago
I started at Valparaiso University as the Director of Instructional Technology
I switched paths and now teach English to upper and lower levels at Chesterton High School
I was inspired to make the swap because of the kids
My goal in teaching is to listen and understand my students
to be able to provide personalized support and be a mentor in their lives.”
Soller enjoys reading true crime and fantasy
Soller is specifically involved with the church youth group and a program called Jacob’s Table that serves community meals
Soller attributes the value and enjoyment he receives from helping others to his upbringing and parents
He also cites his wife as his greatest source of inspiration.
I still look at myself and feel like these things happened by accident,” said Soller
“In times when I’ve felt I didn’t deserve my success
I remember that I am not doing my work for any accolades
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The TimesSpaniards angry about the effects of mass tourism have tried protests
Now they have added another weapon to their arsenal: artificial intelligence
Residents of the town of Soller on the holiday island of Mallorca have started a campaign using AI-generated images to register their displeasure over what they consider a tourism invasion
Naming their campaign “Welcome to Sollerland”
an ironic reference to their town as a tourist theme park
the group have posted online images including a child on a beach saying “I used to play here” or an adult in a square saying “I used to have a coffee here” against backdrops of crowded streets and seaside scenes
WELCOME TO SOLLERLANDA common image shows a “local” wearing a T-shirt with
A new TV Spot has been released from Andor
following on from the previous clip that saw Cassian Andor step into the TIE Avenger for the first time
This one sees Cassian piloting the TIE Avenger as he attempts to rescue his friend Brasso from the Empire
Blomberg asks the actors if they approach their characters as bad people
full of praise for the writing behind Dedra Meero and Syril Karn so they don’t get reduced to “good” or “bad”:
“You don’t have to “play bad”
I’ve said this before but I believe that Dedra Meero and Syril Karn are the two most thoroughly realized characters that we’ve ever seen in the Empire
and it’s genius because they are such strong and clear characters in some ways… you can read them in certain ways
but what happens in this series is… there are many triumphs… the Ghorman situation etc which [Dedra and Syril] are so much a part of
and the machinations [surrounding that event]
which is to… be the lieutenant to the Emperor
now we’re going to do this,” but what happens to [Dedra and Syril] is really what matters in our side of things.”
Denise Gough elaborated on how she feels about Dedra in this manner
revealing that while she didn’t play Dedra as a villain
she still considers the ISB agent a monster:
I was totally on the… she doesn’t feel that she’s a villain
She does monstrous things and there is nothing about me as an actress that I can… I don’t need to be one of those actors who says… “I have to love every character I play”
we veer into something far more serious this season
which is so important and I’m so grateful for it because… in the hands of lesser artists and writers
we could have taken a real swing into “let’s not upset anybody and let’s keep it all quite camp and nice,” and we just don’t do that in this show
“It’s a profound privilege to play somebody who
you get to show very worst of what a person is capable of doing when they refuse to see anything outside the world that they believe in and unfortunately
she was indoctrinated into it so it’s not even her fault
She grew up in this thing… but I think it’s really important to show the damage that can be done if we refuse to walk amongst the people that we’re opressing
Kyle Soller concurs that playing a character as a villain is the wrong approach:
“You’re never going to get anywhere trying to play a villain
You can’t play “bad”… Tony [Gilroy] has written characters that are ultimately acting within the gray area
be that Cassian Andor murdering someone in the first scene of Season 1 episode 1
Ultimately you know that people are being put in these extraordinary circumstances that are testing them to their limits
that are making them question their morals
“He’s created a world where people are just interacting
trying to find their own little sense of themselves and power
attaching themselves to these structures that are ultimately forces beyond their control
that are manipulating them to their own agendas
“And you have different levels to that
Tony has created these human characters that I think people
it’s so raw and human and powerful.”
who has spent far too much time wondering if any Star Wars character could defeat Thanos with all the Infinity Stones
Frederick “Fred” Eugene Soller Sr.
passed away peacefully with family by his side
a second generation of immigrants from Germany
Karl John Soller and Mary Ewing Soller; siblings
Ann Soller MacLean and John Carsten Soller; and wife
Margaret “Sis” Ruchhoft Soller
dec.) and Susan Soller Terpay (Jamie); and grandsons
Fred attended South High School in Youngstown
where he lettered in football and basketball
and participated in the American Legion’s Buckeye Boys State
He graduated in 1944 and soon after was drafted into the United States military
Fred enlisted in the United States Navy and served as quartermaster on the USS Carter Hall (LSD-3) in the Pacific Theater from 1944 until being honorably discharged in 1946
Fred was extremely proud of his service in the U.S
Navy and grateful for the life lessons and humility his service instilled in him
He was a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity and received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1950
He met Margaret “Sis” Ruchhoft and they were married in 1951
Fred considered becoming a brewmaster and spent time in St
Fred attended The Ohio State University School of Dentistry in Columbus
which included a one-year residency at Presbyterian Hospital in Pittsburgh
he was fortunate to work alongside his niece
He had a true passion for his profession and valued his office staff and patients
Professional organization memberships included Croydon Palmer Dental Society (secretary 1978-1979
Ohio State Dental Association (First District Representative Council on Dental Education 1981-1987) and the American Dental Association
Fred was elected to the Mahoning County Board of Education in 1966 and served on the board with distinction for 32 years
He served as vice president in six non-consecutive years and as president in seven non-consecutive years
Fred also served with distinction on the Mahoning County Joint Vocational School Board (Mahoning County Career and Technical Center
Fred shared his sound judgment and guidance during the construction and opening of the MCJVS
Fred was also a longstanding member of the Boardman chapter of Rotary International
He served as president from 1984 to 1985 and received the honorary Paul P
Harris Fellowship Award for outstanding service to the community and Rotary’s many causes
its missions and relationships with fellow Rotarians
Other civic organizations include The Four Square Club
Greater Youngstown Area Chamber of Commerce
YMCA Camp Fitch Board of Management (past president)
Forest Lawn Memorial Park (past trustee) and Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Ohio (50-year award recipient)
Fred focused on his family and favorite activities of playing golf
Fred” for “Farmer Fred.”
Fred was able to enjoy rounds of golf into his 90s at Mill Creek Park and many other courses around the state and country
which developed as a young boy through family and during the course of his life as a proud member of Trinity United Methodist Church in Youngstown
Fred was an amazing man and was loved by his family
Fred will truly be missed by his family and the many he touched
at the Davis-Becker Funeral Home in Boardman
followed by a memorial celebration of his life beginning at noon
donations may be made in Fred’s honor to the Boardman Rotary Foundation
Please visit www.beckerobits.com to send the family condolences
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The TimesAs the Balearic Islands grapple with how to deal with the effects of mass tourism
a picturesque town in Mallorca has banned tourists from driving in its historic centre
in the northwest of the island that is a favourite of the Spanish royal family
imposed the measure after protests last year were prompted by traffic jams of up to 7km leading into the town on the road from Palma
Registered vehicles will be able to circulate freely within the zone but drivers and passengers of other non-registered vehicles will have to park and walk
the Mallorca English-language Daily Bulletin newspaper reported
Residents said the number of cars on the small streets had become unsustainableALAMYAn area in the town covering 12 streets will be reserved for locals
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even more so for two characters in particular
At Star Wars Celebration 2025
I spoke with actors Denise Gough and Kyle Soller
on what we can expect to see from their characters in this second and final season
Andor Season 2 takes us right up to the events of Star Wars: Rogue One
I asked Denise Gough what it was like to delve even deeper into what makes the ISB agent tick
and really expand upon her backstory and motivations
“I was really glad that they didn't hold back
we don't even talk about it very much.”
Without giving anything away Dedra is in a much different place by the time Season 2 rolls around
and with the show taking place across four entire Star Wars years her character changes a lot along the way
Denise continued: “You have some idea of why she believes she's doing the right thing
because she doesn't know anything else
It was great to play that because it's really important to tell those stories.”
Dedra isn’t the only character who goes through some changes though
as Syril’s story is one of the most emotional by far
Kyle Soller said “I kind of joke that it's very much the Daft Punk song
They set up season two in the first three episodes
steady knockout punch that just happens for the next nine.”
He described the second season as “so sophisticated
and it just felt like we were doing something really special.”
Separately these characters have beautiful stories
as Season 2 shines a light on their relationship as it develops
When asked what it was like building that relationship and presenting it to the audience Kyle said it was “Awful
He went on to say “we had no idea what these two characters would be like if you put them in the same room together … How do they interact with each other
there's a whole dinner scene with my mom who comes around
and the Thanksgiving Day from hell happens … They are so similar in some ways
Andor Season 2 will be available on Disney+ on 22 April
Topics: Star Wars, TV And Film, Lucasfilm, Interview, Disney
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is increasing its schedule for the high season
adding a new departures from Palma to Sóller
This brings the total to seven daily trains from Palma
Eight trains will operate from Sóller to Palma
The additional evening service targets day-trippers eager to extend their time in Sóller or its scenic port
as well as locals who can now visit the Tramuntana region after work without having to bother to drive
Known as the ‘Red Lightning,’ the train delivers a nostalgic journey
a tram linking Sóller’s centre to Port de Sóller’s harbour
The company’s press release shows they are completely dedicated to quality
hoping to manage visitor flow while promoting culturally and environmentally conscious travel
The new connection supports this idea, catering to growing summer demand while preserving the island’s charm. Whether for a leisurely day out or a post-work escape, the Tren de Sóller continues to connect travellers to Mallorca’s heritage with ease and elegance
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founder and owner of ISI Ismaninger Feldgemüse GmbH
has focused on washing and peeling vegetables for the retail and hospitality sectors since 1999
he discovered a more efficient solution: Sormac's washing systems
This led to the purchase of a washing system in 2003
Soller invested in a brush polisher and a carrot peeling and slicing line
which nowadays is capable of processing around 18 tons of carrots a day
Despite Soller's company being (in his own words) "a relatively small customer" for Sormac
he feels he is treated with the same level of dedication as a large customer
Area Sales Manager Fabiaan Hendricks and owner/General Director Bert Haffmans visit for a cup of coffee if they are in the area
or they spontaneously go out together for food
He has also maintained a warm relationship with Karsten Schmitz from Foodcons
Soller also speaks highly of the fast service and availability of spare parts
a part was even taken from a new Sormac machine
I discovered that a machine optimization I had suggested had been implemented in the new model
This level of service and commitment shows that Sormac understands what is important to us and that they really listen," says Peter Soller
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