ESU Success Stories
ESU Graduate Credits Tennis Coach for Second Chance at Life
Becky (Martin) Sieg, then 12 years old, told her mom, Kerry, that she was having chest pains after soccer practice. “They say to athletes who push themselves at practice that it’s, ‘no pain, no gain,’” Sieg recalled. “I said to my mom that I didn’t think I should feel like this, like I’m going to pass out from the chest pain.”
June 20, 2019 - No Comments - Read more
New Health Science Doctorate to Help Working Professionals Advance
In response to the needs of regional employers and the aspirations of area health professionals, ESU has created an innovative Doctorate of Health Science program that will enroll its first class this fall.
May 9, 2019 - No Comments - Read More
Pope Triplets Graduate Together
They don’t look alike. They have different majors. They are headed on different career paths. But what triplets Michael, Madison and Joshua Pope ’19 of Easton all share is drive, working hard, succeeding academically and graduating from East Stroudsburg University on May 11.
May 3, 2019 - No Comments - Read More
Adam Schmucker ’96 Named National Distinguished Elementary Principal
“It’s a community event,” says Adam G. Schmucker ’96 of his approach to leading Trumbauersville Elementary School in Quakertown, Pennsylvania. That is the key to why Schmucker was recently named Pennsylvania’s National Distinguished Principal by the National Association of Elementary School Principals — leading a community of students, teachers and staff who talk to each other, and who listen and are receptive to each other.
April 25, 2019 - No Comments - Read More
Students Study Ecosystems in Costa Rica and Compete in Annual Soccer Game
Over spring break, the Biology of Tropical Ecosystems class at East Stroudsburg University took its annual study abroad trip to Costa Rica, accompanied by professors Thomas LaDuke, P.h.D., associate professor of biological sciences; Terry Master, Ph.D, professor of biological sciences; and Howard P. (Sandy) Whidden, Ph.D. professor of biological sciences.
April 17, 2019 - No Comments - Read More
ESU Grad Students Assess Needs of Food Pantries and Their Clients
When Clare Lenhart, Ph.D., associate professor of public health at ESU, sat down with graduate assistant Ivan Mendoza, of Sheffield Village, Ohio, to crunch the numbers from a needs assessment of community food pantries, they found some scary statistics.
April 10, 2019 - No Comments - Read More
Launching a Leader, ESU Junior Earns Prestigious Internship in Global Finance
Makenley Jean ’20 is pretty modest, and it is hard to get him to talk about himself. So we will have to let the people who know him do it for him: “He is a leader.” “A self-starter.” “Driven. Focused. Eager to learn.” “He is going places.” “A great role model.”
March 8, 2019 - No Comments - Read More
ESU Celebrates International Day of Women and Girls in Science
In a lecture hall in East Stroudsburg University’s Science and Technology Center elementary students watched as two household products created an “explosion”.
February 21, 2019 - No Comments - Read More
Upward Bound was Ladder to Success for ESU Alum
Jayleen Galarza grew up in a U.S. military family and lived abroad before her parents divorced and she and her siblings moved with their mother to the Lehigh Valley. The family was barely getting by before the divorce but afterward…
February 11, 2019 - No Comments - Read More
ESU Student Returns to Finish What She Started
On the morning of Saturday, December 15 – commencement day at East Stroudsburg University – Kayla Hahn received a text message from her father – “Are you sure this is really happening?” Hahn responded with a photo of herself in her graduation cap and gown “It’s really happening.”
December 18, 2018 - No Comments - Read More
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