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ESU Will Honor 274 Students During 36th Annual Honors Convocation
East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania (ESU) will honor 274 students during the 36th Annual Honors Convocation on Friday, April 21, in the Abeloff Center for the Performing Arts. The Honors Convocation is sponsored by the Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties (APSCUF) with support from the ESU Office of Academic Affairs.
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Psychology Department’s Biannual Research Forum Celebrates 20 Years of Student Research
In the late 1990s an outside reviewer of the East Stroudsburg University psychology department praised many aspects of the department but noted that it was not keeping up with national trends related to undergraduate student research. In response, Sussie Eshun, Ph.D., professor of psychology, initiated the department’s Biannual Research Forum in 1996. The following year, Richard Wesp, Ph.D., distinguished professor of psychology, helped to expand the forum to include student poster presentations. Now in its 20th year, all members of the psychology department are actively involved in the paramount event which engages students in the field and acknowledges their involvement in the discipline in each semester.
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ESU Student Talks About the Impact of Scholarship on Infinite Opportunities
Kristina Arvelo, a senior biology major at East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania, will talk about how the scholarship she received enabled her to attend college on this week’s edition of Infinite Opportunities. Arvelo says she would not have been able to attend ESU without the scholarship she is receiving from Sanofi Pasteur.
This week’s episode also will include video visits to the campuses of Kutztown and Millersville Universities of Pennsylvania, as the program explores private giving and how it benefits students who attend Pennsylvania’s State System of Higher Education.
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Political Science Students Set to Present at Harvard Conference
Two political science students of East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania’s college of arts and sciences will present research at the International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Science Studies at Harvard University in Boston, Mass., April 24 – 26.
Kimberly S. Adams, Ph.D., professor of political science, informed political science majors Christian Colon, a senior from Bethlehem, Pa. and Leah Walsh, a junior from Scranton, Pa. of the conference. “The overall objective of this conference is to provide a platform and stimulate discussion on key interdisciplinary social science issues affecting law, international relations, business management, psychology, criminology, sociology and education,” Dr. Adams said. For her students, it is a chance to engage in meaningful discussions and showcase their talent.
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Department of Theatre to Present Comedy/Sci-Fi Rock Musical Little Shop of Horrors
East Stroudsburg University’s Department of Theatre will be presenting the rock musical April 19-23 in the Smith-McFarland Theatre of the university’s Fine and Performing Arts Center, Normal and Marguerite streets, East Stroudsburg.
Songs by writer Howard Ashman and composer Alan Menken, the creative team for such Disney classics as Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast, helped to make Little Shop of Horrors into a long-running, Off-Broadway hit.
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ESU Students Present to the PASSHE Board of Governors
East Stroudsburg University students, faculty and administration were present at the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education’s quarterly Board of Governors Meeting on Thursday, April 6, 2017. Graduate student Blaise Delfino spoke to the board about his experiences in the PASSHE Business Plan Competition. Delfino won the competition in 2016 and has since had much success launching his business, Fader Plugs. Members of ESU’s student run design agency, New Mind Design presented to the board about work they have done individual clients within the regional community, including the design and building of a prosthetic leg for a duck.
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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 “21st 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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