DeSales University

Dean’s list is announced

The following DeSales University students have made the spring 2024 dean’s list.

Bath: Tara Calixto, health care administration and human resource management; Amanda Deutsch, medical studies; Alanna Hartzell, marketing; Jordon Troxell, marketing

Catasauqua: Cassidy Fischl, nursing

Coplay: Enrique Mendez, biology and nursing; Amira Moawad, biology; Cosimo Morelli, management of information technology

Danielsville: Emmalee Maikits, nursing; Trent Talipan, sport and exercise physiology

Northampton: Caelyn Harryn, early childhood education; Evan Lapp, sport and exercise physiology; Amanda Reese, health care administration; Evan Renner, finance and accounting; Morgan Sterner, communication sciences and disorders; Filipe Valerio, finance and accounting; Kirstyn Willever, health care administration

Walnutport: Daniel Gonzalez, management of information technology; Isabella Nota, biology; Abigail Zimmermann, nursing

Whitehall: Vivyan Aboud, business administration; Vanessa DeJesus, human resource management; Amanda Dobeck, nursing; Daniel Fisher, criminal justice; Melissa Howard, TV/film; Erica Kurpiewski, computer science; Afaf Nazif, biology; Maci Pollitt, nursing; Patricia Superka, medical studies; Brianna Thomas, TV/film

DeSales University, in Center Valley, is a private, coeducational, four-year liberal arts Salesian, Catholic university under the leadership of the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales.

Founded in 1965, the 550-acre suburban campus has a total enrollment of nearly 3,500 including undergraduate day and evening students, and graduate students. DeSales has approximately 135 full-time faculty members and offers more than 40 bachelor’s degrees, 12 graduate programs and more than 20 certificate programs in a wide range of disciplines. Many of these can be completed fully online.

Pennsylvania College of Technology

Klinger graduates

Jacob Klinger, a graduate of Whitehall High School Class of 2020, graduated with honors from Pennsylvania College of Technology with a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering design technology. He is working for Victraulic as a mechanical design engineer.

Lehigh University

Students earn degrees

Lehigh University is pleased to announce the students who graduated in spring 2024.

Bath: Nick Lucien, Bachelor of Arts in Africana studies

Walnutport: Trevor Harris, Bachelor of Science in Business and Economics in finance; Alexis Temos, Bachelor of Science in Business and Economics in marketing

Whitehall: Kamil Gjondla, Bachelor of Science in computer engineering; Jakob Schlosser, Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering; Morgan Guiher, Bachelor of Arts in architecture; Fares Saed, Bachelor of Science in bioengineering

For more than 150 years, Lehigh University combined outstanding academic and learning opportunities with leadership in fostering innovative research.

The institution is among the nation’s most selective, highly ranked private research universities. Lehigh’s five colleges — arts and sciences, business, education, health and the P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science — provide opportunities to 7,000-plus students to discover and grow in an academically rigorous environment along with a supportive, engaged campus community.

Delaware Valley University

Students named to dean’s list

These students were honored for academic achievement by being named to Delaware Valley University’s dean’s list for the spring 2024 semester.

Catasauqua: Katherine Stewart

Northampton: Cora Milisits, Ashlyn Thomas, Rebecca Vanblargan, Ian Ventresca

Whitehall: Mary Jo Koch, Gregory Sommer

Delaware Valley University is a private, comprehensive, nonprofit university educating students with a curriculum that emphasizes and requires experiential learning. Located in Doylestown, the university offers 28 undergraduate majors in business, arts and sciences and agricultural and environmental sciences; 10 master’s degrees; and a doctorate in education.

Founded in 1896, DelVal has been cited by the National Society for Experiential Education as having the country’s top experiential learning program, by Princeton Review as one of the best colleges in the Northeast and by College Factual as having one of the top 20 animal science programs in the country.

Alvernia University

Degrees are awarded

Alvernia University celebrated more than 600 associate, bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral students in the Class of 2024 with a commencement ceremony at Santander Arena in Reading May 11, as a part of a revamped graduating student celebration weekend in front of family and friends.

Bath: Madalyn Yorke, Master of Science in occupational therapy

Coplay: Logan McGinley, Master of Arts degree

Northampton: Tiffany Alexander, Master of Business Administration; Nicholas Schuch, Bachelor of Science degree

Whitehall: Brandon Gawrys, Bachelor of Arts degree

Alvernia University is a Catholic comprehensive university with a liberal arts foundation founded by the Bernardine Franciscan Sisters in 1958. The university serves more than 3,000 students in Reading, Pottsville and Philadelphia with a unique blend of rigorous liberal arts education, strong technical training in many high demand majors, ever-expanding experiential learning opportunities through study abroad and internship experiences and community engagement through its Franciscan-based community service model.

Albright College

Students named to dean’s list

Albright College announces the students named to the dean’s list for the spring 2024 semester. To be eligible for the dean’s list, Albright students must earn a grade-point average of 3.75 or better while taking a minimum of three letter-graded courses during a semester.

Danielsville: Lexie Delong, a graduate of Northampton Area High School, studied psychology.

Northampton: Kayla Herr, a graduate of Northampton Area High School, studied fashion.

Walnutport: Olivia Lorah, a graduate of Northampton Area High School, studied history/secondary education.

Whitehall: Madison Lasko, a graduate of Whitehall High School, studied biochemistry; Hannah Sierra, a graduate of Whitehall High School, studied fashion.

Named a top national college by U.S. News & World Report, Albright College, Reading (founded 1856), is home to engaging faculty who believe the best academic moments are when students feel inspired and ready to take action.

Touro University

Scarfaro earns juris doctorate

Madison Scarfaro, a Whitehall High School Class of 2014 graduate, graduated summa cum laude, salutatorian and Pro Bono Scholar with her juris doctorate from Touro University Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center May 23 in New York.

Scarfaro was chosen as Law Student of the Year by the “National Jurist” publication. She dedicated much of her time in law school to advancing women’s rights by volunteering with the nonprofit New Hour. Visiting the Nassau County Correctional Facility every Monday to meet women in a drug and alcohol treatment program, she created Know Your Rights training on a variety of topics and led classes in the facility.

She was the first student liaison to the Suffolk County Women in the Courts Committee, president of the Touro’s Women’s Bar Association, vice president of the Touro Law Center Sports and Entertainment Law Society, on the Touro Law Review and vice president of the Public Interest Law Organization. She completed both externships and internships with the Sports Legal Department at Roc Nation, NYC, the criminal division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, Warner Music, NYC, and this past spring, she worked with the Federal Defenders of New York. She also participated in Breaking Barriers, a student-run project of Touro’s Public Advocacy Center that assists persons with criminal convictions to overcome barriers to employment and educational licenses.

She is currently planning, alongside nonprofit organizations, the first Long Island Human Trafficking Awareness Week. Scarfaro passed her bar exam in February and will work as an associate at the firm Ruskin Moscou Faltischek, P.C., on Long Island.