LEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE

Benjamin Fisher, of Whitehall, will march with the 2016 Pride of the Valley Marching Band of Lebanon Valley College.

A graduate of Whitehall High School, he is pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in political science.

The marching band performs at all home football games as well as exhibitions including the Cavalcade of Bands Championships in Hershey and the Collegiate Marching Band Festival in Allentown.

Lebanon Valley College 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.

Rochester

Institute of

Technology

Sierra Dorschutz, of Coplay, graduated in May from Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) at its 131st academic convocation. Diplomas were distributed to graduates following the event at separate ceremonies, held by each of RIT’s nine colleges and two academic centers. Dorschutz received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in film and animation from RIT’s College of Imaging Arts and Sciences.

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.

Pennsylvania

College of

Technology

For the second consecutive year, more than 50 Pennsylvania College of Technology students proved their computer-aided design prowess by passing a prominent industry certification test. The three-hour test requires candidates to meet several hands-on challenges, representing various aspects of the software. Students must score at least 70 percent to pass the exam. The students successfully completed the Certified SolidWorks Associate exam. SolidWorks is a 3-D modeling, computer-aided software program employed by more than 3 million product designers and engineers worldwide. It is one of several 3-D modeling software applications used by students enrolled in Penn College’s engineering design technology and industrial design bachelor-degree majors and the engineering CAD technology associate degree.

Jacob M. Weller, of Coplay, passed the engineering design technology major exam.

For information on the engineering design technology program and other majors offered by the college’s School of Industrial, Computing & Engineering Technologies, call 570-327-4520 or visit pct.edu/icet.

Philadelphia

University

The dean’s list at Philadelphia University recently has been announced. To be eligible for this distinction, PhilaU students must earn a GPA of 3.6 or better.

Rebecca Lutterschmidt, of Whitehall, has earned this status. She has just started her sophomore year, majoring in graphic design.

LCCC

Six Lehigh Carbon Community College (LCCC) students are participating in the Bucknell Community College Scholars program (BCCSP), a fully paid six-week residential academic program for high-achieving students at Bucknell University in Lewisburg. Since the beginning of the partnership in 2007, 36 students from LCCC have been admitted as juniors with full tuition scholarships to Bucknell University. The LCCC cohort holds a 100 percent graduation rate, having now graduated a total of 29 students. Four seniors and (now) three juniors will be attending in the fall.

Bao Nguyen, a Whitehall resident and Whitehall High School graduate, is participating in the summer program.

For more information, contact Ginny Mihalik, transfer counselor/professor and advisor at LCCC, at vmihalik@lccc.edu.

University

of Rochester

The University of Rochester has named the students who have qualified for dean’s list for the 2016 spring semester.

Nicholas Nathan Wachter, of Bath, is a junior majoring in business and a graduate of Northampton Area High School. He is the son of Stewart and Denise Wachter.

The University of Rochester, founded in 1850, is a private research university located in Rochester, N.Y., on the south shore of Lake Ontario. The university offers a unique undergraduate curriculum, with no required courses, that emphasizes a broad liberal education through majors, minors and course “clusters” - a Rochester innovation - in the three main areas of knowledge: humanities, social sciences and physical sciences/engineering. The university is also home to the world-renowned Eastman School of Music as well as graduate professional schools of business, education, medicine and nursing. Visit rochester.edu for more information.

University of

Rhode Island

Among more than 4,986 undergraduates, Brian J. Foster, of Northampton, has been named to the University of Rhode Island’s 2016 spring and 2015 fall dean’s list. Foster is a Doctorate of Pharmacy student/intern and an officer and representative of Kappa Psi, one of the nation’s oldest professional fraternities in the country. He recently received his white coat as he enters his pharmaceutical professional years of learning at the university.

Foster is a 2013 graduate of Allentown Central Catholic and the son of David and Gloria Foster, of Allen Township.

The students represent nearly all of Rhode Island’s cities and towns, all six New England states, New York and New Jersey, other states and 25 countries. To be included on the dean’s list, students must have completed 12 or more credits during a semester for letter grades with at least a 3.30 quality-point average. Part-time students qualify with the accumulation of 12 credits with a 3.30 quality-point average.

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA

Kelli (Dunker) Harajda, M.D., of Northampton, is one of three Lehigh Valley natives who have graduated from the University of South Florida/Morsani College of Medicine as part of the SELECT (Scholary Excellence, Leadership Experiences and Collaborative Training) Program of Medical Studies in conjunction with Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN).

Harajda is a graduate of Northampton High School and Penn State University.

Mary Kate Erdman, M.D., of Orefield, is a graduate of Allentown Central Catholic High School and Lafayette College, and Michael Goodwin, M.D., of Allentown, is a graduate of Parkland High School and Penn State University. They all graduated in April of this year.

Harajda is currently a three-year pediatric resident at LVHN. She was also the recipient of the Pediatric Clinical Award for the Class of 2016.

The SELECT Program is an innovative approach to medical school studies, whereby the doctors spent the first two years in Tampa, Fla., (at USF) in a classroom and clinical setting. The final two years were spent almost exclusively, in a clinical setting at each of the LVHN hospitals as well as family and internal medicine practices.

Harajda is the daughter of Chris and Cheri Dunker, of Northampton.