ESU Success Stories

Leah Bergman posing in the outdoors by a sign

ESU Grad Heading to Japan for Ph.D. in Marine Science

Leah Bergman ’19 got the news that she’d been accepted to a prestigious marine science doctoral program in Japan on June 11 at 9 p.m. when she refreshed the Kitasato University web site for the umpteenth time.

June 22, 2020 - No Comments - Read more

Athletic Training Grad Students to Start In-Person Classes

ESU graduate students in athletic training will be pioneering “the new normal” when they return to campus for two weeks of summer classes, in part to do hands-on lab work in anatomy.

June 15, 2020 - No Comments - Read More

Melodie Warner at the news desk of CNBC.

Melodie Warner ’95 Embraces Breaking News at CNBC

Melodie Warner ’95 started her new job at the business news network CNBC on February 18 — six days before the U.S. stock market plunged into its worst week since the financial crisis of 2008. Talk about trial by fire….

March 20, 2020 - No Comments - Read More

ESU Grad’s Mite Fight Seeks to Protect Honeybees

A local beekeeper’s new business has taken flight with an aim to help apiary aficionados and amateurs alike.

February 25, 2020 - No Comments - Read More

Alex Walsh stands in front of the stage of graduation day.

National Guardsman Graduates with Credits Earned in Afghanistan

While serving with the Army National Guard at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, Alexander Walsh was working 12-hour shifts, seven days a week but still managed to earn an A in all three East Stroudsburg University courses he was taking while deployed.

December 16, 2019 - No Comments - Read More

Students’ Robotics Project Wins at STEM Conference

Using a retrofitted robot arm from the 1990s, three ESU computer science students won the top award in math and computer science for their robotics project at a recent conference on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) for universities in Pennsylvania’s State System of Higher Education.

November 22, 2019 - No Comments - Read More

Sarah Khan sitting, pointing to Turkey on a globe

Sarah Khan Becomes First ESU Fulbright Scholar, Headed to Turkey

Fourteen. That’s how many times ESU graduate student Sarah Khan rewrote the essays that accompanied her winning application for a prestigious Fulbright fellowship.

November 14, 2019 - 4 Comments - Read More

Michael Tomei sitting by a PC and smiling

Accounting Student Earns Big Four Internship

East Stroudsburg University junior Michael Tomei was interviewed for a PwC accounting internship on Oct. 30 and by the end of the day he was offered a position which starts in January.

November 13, 2019 - No Comments - Read More

Sport Management Major Interns with Philadelphia Eagles

Nick Herrmann is a full-time guest services intern for the Philadelphia Eagles. He is just one of 10 interns the Eagles selected out of approximately 3,000 applicants.

October 1, 2019 - No Comments - Read More

Elementary School students participate in Science Sunday at the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area.

ESU Faculty, Students Help Kids ‘Think Like a Scientist’

Last spring, the organizers of “Science Sunday” witnessed a metamorphosis of sorts. The program — a collaboration between the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, East Stroudsburg University professors who are co-directors of the Pocono Writing Project, and Resica Elementary School in East Stroudsburg — was designed to get children and their families out into nature and teach them to think like scientists.

September 23, 2019 - No Comments - Read More