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Yvonne Troiani Sweeney Lecture Series for Nursing Enrichment Held at ESU

The Yvonne Troiani Sweeney Endowed Lecture Series for Nursing Enrichment at ESU was held in the ESU Innovation Center on Thursday, April 6. This year’s keynote address by Glen R. Finney, M.D. was titled “21^st Century Cognitive Care.” Yvonne Troiani Sweeney’78 dedicated her life to her nursing career that spanned 30 years until she was diagnosed with a form of early onset dementia called posterior cortical atrophy. In 2014 her sister, Linda Niedbala ’83, with the help of her husband, Sam Niedbala ’82, started the lecture series in her honor.

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Art + Design Professor Displays Full-Color, 3D Printed, Pocono Mountains Flowers

Darlene Farris-LaBar has loved creating and making items for as long as she can remember. As a little girl, she tinkered with her mom’s sewing machine after school when she wasn’t taking a watch apart just to see if she could put it back together. As decades have passed, Farris-LaBar’s knowledge has drastically increased, and she has made a name for herself in the 3D printing world.

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Theatre Students Find Multiple Stages Through Service Learning in the Community

Inspired by Shakespeare’s statement, “all the world is a stage,” theatre majors at East Stroudsburg University are bringing their performance skills to the Pocono community through diverse volunteer activities.

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Madelon Powers Gallery to Present Senior Seminar and Portfolio in Art Student Exhibition

East Stroudsburg University’s Madelon Powers Gallery will feature art works and portfolios of selected students in a Senior Seminar and Portfolio in Art Student Exhibition April 12-May 4.

The exhibition also will include works produced by the art + design department’s student design agency, New Mind Design; comic art created at recent Comic Thons; sketches from the Drawing II class, and other selected student works.

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Winners of Student Art Association Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition

Prizes were awarded recently to the top artists in the East Stroudsburg University Student Art Association Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition.

Gavel for Ruth Bader Ginsberg, a 3-D printed work by Alyssa Gonzalez, a sophomore from Allentown, Pa. majoring in art + design, earned the “best in show” award and also the prize for the best three-dimensional piece in the exhibit.

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Debate Team Tackles Hate Speech on College Campuses

Should hate speech be allowed on college campuses? That’s the topic 22 teams from seven universities within the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education will debate at this year’s Fredrick Douglass Institute Collaborative Debate Tournament on Friday, April 7. The championship debate will take place from 4 – 5 p.m. in the Student Senate Chambers located in the University Center on ESU’s campus.

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‘Strategic Review’ Website Launched

The consulting firm hired to assist with a strategic review of the overall operations of Pennsylvania’s State System of Higher Education has launched a website through which the public can track the progress of the review and offer their thoughts…

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Next Monroe Gigabit Project Meeting Set for April 13 at ESU

Increasingly, cyber security impacts our daily lives. Defending against cyber-attacks is mission critical for businesses, organizations, schools, universities, governments and citizens. The Pennsylvania State Police are working 24/7/365 to protect Pennsylvanians against all kinds of attacks: existing, new and emerging threats. The State Police also prosecute civil and criminal cyber-security violations. As a direct result, the State Police are at the forefront in the fight against cybercrime.

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East Stroudsburg University and Lehigh Carbon Community College Sign Dual Admission Agreement

“This collaboration between our institutions only serves to strengthen our partnership and demonstrates the commitment by ESU and Lehigh Carbon Community College to student success,” said ESU President Marcia G. Welsh, Ph.D. “A dual admission agreement will help to create a smooth transfer of credits for students who are coming to ESU from Lehigh Carbon Community College with an associates degree.”

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ESU’s Business Accelerator Helps Student Pursue Entrepreneurial Endeavor

Alan Reed, an East Stroudsburg University graduate from the class of 2013, found success as an entrepreneur with the help of ESU’s Business Accelerator. Reed launched his company Proud Development, LLC in 2015. The company develops web applications that generate revenue on a per-click basis. After working out of his kitchen for six months, Reed knew he needed a designated workspace where he could continue to grow his business. The Business Accelerator is a perfect fit for the young company.

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