Moravian

Area students

receive degrees

The following students graduated in spring 2014 from Moravian College, Bethlehem.

Bachelor of Arts degree: Ruben D. De La Cruz, magna cum laude; Elyssa Rae Deeb; Angela Marie DelGrosso; Kenneth R. Gula; Johnny Haik, Zeta Psi Award; Georgina E. Hanna; Melissa K. Hosni; Garrett G. Johnson; Sara Rachel Kaskowitz; Stephanie Kise; Nina Marie Krall; Thomas J. Lazaro, cum laude, Institute of Internal Auditors Award; Zena I. Mhrtam; Patrick Angelo Pagnano; Mary E. Pope; Carol Diane Repyneck, summa cum laude, George Tyler Award; Rubina Sofiyah Swavely, summa cum laude; Jeffrey S. White; Mark Andrew Wunderly, honors in economics; Vivian Adnan Younes, cum laude, all from Allentown, and Melissa E. Cottone, Laurys Station; Dylan Drew Fatzinger, Slatington; Alex C. Macri, Orefield; Fernanda Murillo, Breinigsville; Hussain Namous, Orefield; Lacey Elizabeth Neff, Slatington; Karen E. Purkey, Kempton, summa cum laude, Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants Award; Katelyn Mary Remp, Kutztown, summa cum laude, Zinzendorf Prize; Jocelyn M. Rodrigues, Slatington; Casey R. Scanlan, Schnecksville; Nicole Mary Volk, New Tripoli; Kassandra Lee Ward, Orefield.

Bachelor of Science degree: Laudi Huguette EL-Kareh, Allentown; Patricia M. Finady, Breinigsville, magna cum laude; Caitlin J. Hrebik, Allentown, magna cum laude; Brett T. Rentzheimer, Laurys Station, cum laude; Laura Jean Shearman, Schnecksville, cum laude, honors in nursing.

Master of Business Administration: Carol A. Beisel, Allentown, MBA prize; Angela Maria Colon-Rivera, Allentown; and

Master of Science in Human Resource Management degree: Steven Maxwell Iacocca, Allentown.

Ashland Univ.

Parkland graduate

on dean's list

Ashley Lorah of Allentown, exercise science major, was named to the dean's list for the fall 2014 semester at Ashland University, Ashland Ohio.

Lorah, a 2011 graduate of Parkland High School, is a member of the honor's program.

She is the daughter of Scott and Beth Lorah.

To be eligible for this honor, a student must be enrolled full time at Ashland University and achieve at least a 3.5 grade point average on a 4.0 scale.

Ashland University's honors program offers academically talented undergraduate students cross-disciplinary experiences, participation in an intellectual community devoted to discussion and dialogue, and special projects and courses that challenge the mind.

Elizabethtown

Local students

on dean's list

Morgan Reiss, a first-year business administration major, and Desiree Yeager, a senior early childhood education major, both from Allentown, have been named to the fall 2014 dean's list at Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown.

To earn this recognition, students must earn a semester grade point average of 3.60 or better in 14 or more credit hours, of which at least 12 credits are letter-graded course work.

King's College

Students earn

dean's list honors

The following students were named to fall 2014 dean's list at King's College, Wilkes-Barre.

Allentown: Andrew Bungert, Daniel Dormann, Shannon Dunski, Heather Ott, Katlyn Rossowski, Kyle Valentino; and

Orefield: Christopher Damico and Nicole Lawler.

Albright

Kutztown student

tackles project

Kathleen de Haan, a senior French, psychobiology, evolution and animal behavior, evolutionary studies major from Kutztown, is spending the winter tackling an Albright College Creative Research Experience project titled "Behaviors Associated with Initial Attraction: Maladaptive or Adaptive Reactions?"

ACRE is a multi-disciplinary program giving undergraduate students the opportunity to conduct research or pursue creative endeavors during the summer break or the three-week January Interim before the start of the spring semester.

Students work alongside faculty mentors.

This winter, 22 students are participating in ACREs, researching topics ranging from methods for teaching English to non-native speakers, to personality expressions in Facebook status updates, to a campus energy assessment.

Many collaborative teams of students and faculty present their research at academic conferences and publish their results in professional journals.

The following students were named to the dean's list for academic achievement during the 2014 fall semester at Albright.

Kempton: Austin Marich, senior economics/international relations major, Madison VanDuren, freshman art major; and

Kutztown: Angela Cremer, sophomore communications major, and Patrick Wise, a junior biochemistry major..

SUNY

Allentown student

on dean's list

Nicholas Roehler, music performance major from Allentown, was among 391 students who were named to the dean's list for academic excellence in the fall 2014 semester at The State University of New York at Potsdam, N.Y.

To achieve the honor of being on the dean's list, each student must have satisfactorily completed 12 numerically-graded semester hours, with a grade point average of between 3.25 and 3.49 in the given semester.

Moravian

Valley residents

on dean's list

The following local residents earned dean's honor list standing for the spring 2-13-14 semester at Moravian College, Bethlehem.

Fogelsville: Jeremy Hachey, class of 2015;

New Tripoli: Natalie Herb, class of 2016, Nicole Metzger, class of 2017, Abbey Rosko, class of 2015, Curtis Wetzel, class of 2017;

Orefield: Amy Bath, class of 2016, Stephanie Dengler, class of 2016, Thomas Hudak, class of 2015, David Pasquale, class of 2016, Kathleen Sicinski, class of 2015, and

Schnecksville: Laura Shearman, class of 2014, and Bryn Tafuri, class of 2015.

Students who carry three or more course units during a fall or spring term and attain a quality point average for the term of 3.50 or higher are placed on the dean's honor list.

Arizona State

Local resident

graduates

Derrick Yager of Breinigsville, graduated in spring 2014 from Arizona State University, Tempe, Ariz.

He also was named to dean's list for the spring 2014 semester.

Undergraduate students who earn 12 or more graded semester hours during a semester in residence at ASU with a GPA of 3.50 or higher are eligible for the dean's list.