Norwich

University

Zachary Michael Homlish, of Whitehall, received a Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice from Norwich University at the May 14 commencement ceremony held in the university’s Shapiro Field House. He graduated cum laude. Approximately 400 graduates, including 10 earning Master of Architecture degrees, received diplomas at the ceremony.

Norwich University is a diversified academic institution that educates traditional-age students and adults in a Corps of Cadets and as civilians. Norwich offers a broad selection of traditional and distance-learning programs culminating in baccalaureate and graduate degrees. Norwich University was founded in 1819 by Captain Alden Partridge of the U.S. Army and is the oldest private military college in the United States of America. Norwich is one of our nation’s six senior military colleges and the birthplace of the Reserve Officers Training Corps. Learn more at norwich.edu,

University of

the Sciences

Students have been awarded dean’s list status at University of the Sciences for the 2016 spring semester. Selection for this award is based on completing and passing all assigned courses with no grade below a “C” and attaining an academic average of at least 3.4 for courses taken.

Whitehall: Emily Brand, doctor of pharmacy student; Jenna Edelman, physician assistant studies student

University of the Sciences has prepared students to be leaders and practitioners in the healthcare and science fields for nearly 200 years. Key to its distinctive education is a tradition of hands-on research and experiential learning that is evident in every graduate who has walked its campus. Since its founding in 1821 as Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, the first college of pharmacy in North America, USciences has grown to more than 30 degree-granting programs from bachelor’s through doctoral degrees in the health sciences, bench sciences, and healthcare business and policy fields. Discover how USciences students are proven everywhere they go at usciences.edu.

Wilkes

University

Wilkes University Provost Dr. Anne Skleder announced the dean’s list for the 2016 spring semester. To be named to the dean’s list, students must obtain a minimum 3.4 GPA and carry at least 12 credits.

Catasauqua: Alexis Ayache

Coplay: Christina Harrison

Whitehall: Cara Basile, Michael Hadid, Dewitt Haskins, Marissa Kier, Chloe Musselman, Abigail Nemeth, Julia Nguyen, Sarah Wasley

Wilkes University is an independent institution of higher education dedicated to academic and intellectual excellence through mentoring in the liberal arts, sciences and professional programs. Founded in 1933, the university is on a mission to create one of the great small universities, offering all of the programs, activities and opportunities of a large, research university in the intimate, caring and mentoring environment of a small, liberal arts college, at a cost that is increasingly competitive with public universities. The Economist named Wilkes 25th in the nation for the value of its education for graduates. In addition to 41 undergraduate majors, Wilkes offers the doctor of nursing practice, doctor of education and doctor of pharmacy degrees and more than a dozen master’s degree programs, including the master of business administration and master of fine arts in creative writing. Learn more at wilkes.edu.

University

of Delaware

The dean’s list, an honor conferred at the end of the fall and spring semesters, recognizes outstanding academic performance by undergraduate students. Undergraduate students who have been graded in a minimum of 12 credits counting toward their GPA for the semester and who have earned a minimum 3.33 GPA for a given semester are honored with dean’s list recognition for that semester. The following local students have been named to the University of Delaware dean’s list for the 2016 spring semester.

Catasauqua: Sydney Jaworowski

Coplay: Caroline Martin

Whitehall: Connor Bydlon, Taylor Feher

Alvernia

University

The following students have been named to Alvernia University’s dean’s list for the 2016 spring semester. To be eligible for the dean’s list, students must carry a semester GPA of 3.5 or better and take a minimum of 12 credits. Local honorees include the following.

Whitehall: Kyle Fry, a graduate of Whitehall High School, is a behavioral health student; Lauren Hart, a graduate of Whitehall High School, is a healthcare science student.

Alvernia University is a distinctive Franciscan university, grounded in the Catholic and liberal arts traditions, that combines diverse academic opportunities with personal attention and an unmatched commitment to community service. Alvernia empowers students to become “ethical leaders with moral courage.” Through real-world learning and the challenging guidance of faculty mentors, they discover their passion for life and turn what they love into lifetimes of career success and personal fulfillment. Alvernia students do well and do good.

Lebanon

Valley

College

Zac Edwards, of Catasauqua and a Catsauqua High School graduate, has been named to the Middle Atlantic Conference academic honor roll. He is one of more than 150 Lebanon Valley student-athletes named to the Middle Atlantic Conference’s (MAC) winter and spring academic honor roll. Edwards is a member of the baseball team and is pursuing a Bachelor of Science in accounting and business administration at the college. He also was named to the MAC All-Conference Second Team. The academic honor roll is comprised of student-athletes who compete in a varsity level sport and registered a term/semester GPA of 3.20 or higher. In 2015-16, the MAC allowed freshmen to be eligible for the conference academic honor roll for the first time. The addition of freshmen allowed for a record 2,278 MAC student-athletes who competed in baseball, mens and womens basketball, mens and womens golf, mens and womens lacrosse, softball, mens and womens swimming, mens and womens tennis, mens and womens indoor track and field, and mens and womens outdoor track and field to earn honor roll recognition. A total of 827 student-athletes were named to the winter honor roll and 1,451 were named to the spring version.

Lebanon Valley College, Annville, is a private, coeducational college founded in 1866 and dedicated to the liberal arts. The college offers 40 undergraduate majors plus self-designed majors and a range of minors, concentrations and pre-professional options, as well as graduate degree programs in athletic training, business administration, music education, physical therapy, science education and speech-language pathology. The college has 1,608 full-time undergraduate students and 108 full-time faculty. Students can choose from more than 90 clubs and organizations and 12 study abroad programs. LVC awards generous academic scholarships to those whose high school records demonstrate a commitment to challenge and achievement. Learn more at lvc.edu.

Lafayette

College

Lafayette College graduated 568 undergraduate students during the college’s 181st commencement.

Whitehall: Mary Brand, Bachelor of Arts in English with honors in English, Sigma Delta Phi; Hannah Millen, Bachelor of Arts in history

Lafayette is a top liberal arts college with 2,450 students and 215 full-time faculty that offers a wide variety of undergraduate degree programs including engineering. With close proximity to New York City and Philadelphia, Lafayette has one of the highest endowment-per-student rates in the nation. This means ample resources to fuel student research and provide opportunities for study abroad, internships and field work. It means outstanding facilities, Division I sports and funding for 250 student groups on one of the most beautiful campuses in the country.

Delaware

Valley

University

Whitehall resident Briana Jimenez recently received her Bachelor of Science in conservation and wildlife management from Delaware Valley University.

Delaware Valley University (DelVal) is an independent, comprehensive university with more than 1,000 acres in Bucks and Montgomery counties. Founded in 1896, DelVal emphasizes experiential and interdisciplinary learning and provides small class sizes where students learn on a first-name basis. Through the innovative Experience360 Program, all DelVal students gain real world experience in their fields. Located in Doylestown, Pa., DelVal combines the comfort of small-town living with the excitement of big-city access. DelVal offers more than 25 undergraduate majors in the sciences, humanities and business, more than five master’s programs, a Doctor of Education and a variety of adult education courses. Learn more at delval.edu.

Ithaca

College

Coplay native Dana Kempf recently graduated from Ithaca College’s School of Communications with a degree in television-radio.

From day one, Ithaca College prepares students for success through hands-on experience with internships, research and study abroad. Its integrative curriculum builds bridges across disciplines and uniquely blends liberal arts and professional study. Located in New York’s Finger Lakes region, the college is home to 6,100 undergraduate and 460 graduate students.

Fairlehigh

dickinson

University

Students at Fairleigh Dickinson University’s Florham Campus, located in Madison, N.J., have been named to the honors lists for the 2016 spring semester. To qualify for the honor’s list, a student must carry a 3.5 or better GPA and be enrolled in a minimum of 12 letter-graded hours (four courses).

Coplay: Brooke Sherwin

Whitehall: Felicia Lynch

Fairleigh Dickinson University (FDU) is a private, nonsectarian university with four campuses in New Jersey, Canada and the UK. An innovator in health science education, FDU offers more than 100 degree programs in science and liberal arts, including its new School of Pharmacy. For more information, visit fdu.edu.

Stevenson

University

Christina Endy, of Whitehall, is one of the 113 student-athletes to be named to the 2016 Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC) spring academic honor roll. Students were selected from both the men’s and women’s lacrosse, outdoor track and field, golf, tennis, baseball and softball teams. In order for a student to be selected as an academic honor roll athlete, they must play on a varsity sport while earning a GPA of at least 3.0.

Stevenson University is a coeducational, independent institution widely known for its unique synthesis of traditional liberal arts education and exceptional career preparation. The 4,200 students receive an innovative education from the six academic schools: business and leadership, design, education, humanities and social sciences, sciences, and graduate and professional studies. Each student experiences individual attention from faculty members and extensive career preparation gained through real-world training. Two ideal locations just north of Baltimore, Md., in Stevenson and Owings Mills, make the university truly unique.

University

of Scranton

Matthew Collier, of Whitehall, was among other University of Scranton students who took first, second and third place honors in competitions at the 2016 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Region 2 Student Activities Conference, which was held in the spring semester at Cleveland State University, Ohio. Matthew Collier won second place in the project showcase competition. A total of 24 University of Scranton students participated in contests that included robotics, physics, design and student paper and ethics competitions as well as leadership training. IEEE Region 2 includes Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia, Washington, D.C., and parts of New Jersey, Ohio and Virginia.

Saint Joseph’s

University

The following local students earned dean’s list honors for the 2016 spring semester at Saint Joseph’s University. Students must achieve a GPA of 3.5 or above, a B or greater in all their classes and complete at least 15 credits to earn dean’s list status for a semester.

Catasauqua: Rachel Sell, actuarial science major

Whitehall: Courtney Brodeur, English major; Cristina Villarreal, marketing major

As Philadelphia’s Jesuit, Catholic University, founded by the Society of Jesus in 1851, Saint Joseph’s University (SJU) provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. SJU ranks as a top university in the Northeast, with a Phi Beta Kappa chapter in the College of Arts and Sciences and AACSB accreditation of the Erivan K. Haub School of Business. The university also is deeply committed to the Jesuit tradition of scholarship and service, earning a place on the president’s higher education community service honor roll and the community engagement classification from Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. With courses offered on campus and online, SJU prepares its more than 9,000 undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students to lead lives of personal excellence, professional success and engaged citizenship.

Rochester

Institute of

Technology

The following area residents have made the dean’s list at Rochester Institute of Technology for the 2016 spring semester. Degree-seeking undergraduate students are eligible for dean’s list if their term GPA is greater than or equal to 3.400; they do not have any grades of incomplete, D or F; and they have registered for, and completed, at least 12 credit hours.

Coplay: Jacob Anchorstar, studying mechanical engineering; Sierra Dorschutz, studying film and animation

Whitehall: Emily Lazarus, studying biomedical engineering

Rochester Institute of Technology is home to leading creators, entrepreneurs, innovators and researchers. Founded in 1829, RIT enrolls 18,600 students in more than 200 career-oriented and professional programs, making it among the largest private universities in the U.S. The university is internationally recognized and ranked for academic leadership in business, computing, engineering, imaging science, liberal arts, sustainability, and fine and applied arts. RIT also offers unparalleled support services for deaf and hard-of-hearing students. The cooperative education program is one of the oldest and largest in the nation. Global partnerships include campuses in Croatia, Dubai and Kosovo. For news, photos and videos, go to rit.edu/news.