Dr. David L. Soltz, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at Central Washington University, has been selected to serve as the next president of Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Soltz will begin his tenure at Bloomsburg on January 7. He will replace Dr. Jessica S. Kozloff, who has served as the University's president since July 1994. Dr. Kozloff will retire at the end of the year. Soltz was named provost of Central Washington in August 2001. Previously, he served for five years as dean of the College of Natural and Social Sciences at California State University at Los Angeles. Details.
BU's music program has earned accreditation from the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM). The program is one of 617 programs accredited nationally. The accreditation process began five years ago and has been an ongoing process. Details.
BU freshman Jorge Maldonado is the only student in Pennsylvania and one of only 250 students from across the country to be awarded a scholarship through the Dell Scholars Program. The Dell Scholarship, funded through the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation, is awarded to students with qualifying financial need who participate in a college readiness program. Since 2004, the foundation has provided more than $9 million in college scholarships to cover the costs of tuition, fees, books and room and board. Details.
The student representative on BU's Council of Trustees wants to make sure he stays involved. "There are really no set boundaries on how involved you can be and I want to be really hands-on," said James D'Amico, Mount Carmel, a senior majoring in elementary education. D'Amico was interviewed by a search and screen committee of nine individuals and then another interview by Judy Hample, chancellor of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, before he was appointed by Gov. Ed Rendell. Details.
Christopher Bevan, president of the Community Government Association at BU, came to the university with a plan to be involved in student government. "It turned out that my orientation workshop leader was the president of CGA so, when I asked him how to get involved, he showed me where to sign up," said Bevan. Bevan, a native of Nanticoke and a graduate of Greater Nanticoke High School, is a junior at BU majoring in history. Details.
David W. Klingerman Sr. of Bloomsburg is the newest member of Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania's Council of Trustees. Vice president of JDK Management Co., Klingerman oversees the operations of nursing facilities, hotels and restaurants, as well as land development. He has owned and operated nursing care and assisted living facilities in northeast Pennsylvania since 1981 and earned certification as a licensed nursing home administrator in 1983. Details.
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Walter Howard, professor of history, published two books with University Press of America:Forgotten Radicals: Communists in the Pennsylvania Anthracite, 1919-1950 (2005) and B.D. Amis, African American Radical: A Short Anthology of Writings and Speeches (2006). He also has a book contract with Temple University Press for a forthcoming study titled Black Communists Speak on Scottsboro: A Brief History with Documents.
Karl M. Kapp, professor of instructional technology, was co-author of an article written with Bloomsburg alumni Sherry Engel who graduated with an MSIT degree in 2001. The article, titled "Finding ROI to Ensure Training Dollars," was an invited piece published in The RMA Journal, the journal of the Risk Management Association.
James Dalton, professor of psychology, is first author of a book just published: Community Psychology: Linking Individuals and Communities (second edition) published by Wadsworth/Thomson. Co-authors include Maurice Elias of Rutgers University, and Abraham Wandersman of University of South Carolina. The first edition was a popular textbook in the field, adopted in undergraduate courses and in graduate course reading lists in the U.S., Canada, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and elsewhere.
Catholic Campus Ministry's Dollar Dinner has changed days to Wednesdays at 5:30 p.m. The first dinner is August 30. Organizations that have previously scheduled a Tuesday night to cook should contact Catholic Campus Ministry at 784-3123 to confirm whether or not you can cook the following night.
A security guard has been stationed at the First Street parking lot, also known as the Green Lot, in response to recent acts of vandalism. Patrols have been increased at all campus overnight parking lots. Bob Klinger, director of university safety and police, said vandals broke into six vehicles overnight Monday, Aug. 28. During the preceding weekend, someone damaged another car with a rock.
Commuter students with fewer than 60 credits and residence hall students with 60 or more credits are permitted to park in the Green Lot. Klinger asks anyone who sees suspicious activity or who has information about the incidents to contact BU police at 389-4168. Please continue to park only where you are allowed. Campus police will start ticketing all parking lots this week. Students not following parking regulations will receive a ticket.
Nearly five years after the terrorist attacks on New York, Washington, D.C., and western Pennsylvania, members of BU's Class of 2002 will dedicate a class gift inspired by the events of Sept. 11. Representatives of the class, who were BU seniors on Sept. 11, 2001, will formally dedicate three flagpoles at Redman Stadium during a ceremony Saturday, Sept. 9, at 12:30 p.m. Each flagpole symbolizes one of the locations where the planes crashed. Details.
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Music, illusion, Broadway shows and light-hearted entertainment for the entire family will be presented during 2006-07 as part of BU's Celebrity Artist Series. Programs will be presented in two campus venues: Haas Center for the Arts' Mitrani Hall and Carver Hall's Kenneth S. Gross Auditorium. At BU, the ensemble will perform one number with four BU piano students selected by audition - for a total of 16 hands - and another with the University String Ensemble. The program is supported by Pennsylvania Performing Arts on Tour. Tickets are $20 for adults and $5 for BU students and children. Details.
Linda Neyer, science/health sciences reference librarian, had a book chapter, "Copyright and Fair Use: Electronic Reserves," published this summer in the Handbook of Electronic and Digital Acquisitions (New York: Haworth Press), edited by Thomas Leonhardt.
Conrad Quintyn, assistant professor of anthropology, spent this summer at the Peabody Museum, Harvard University; Natural History Museum, London; and Musee de L'Homme, Paris, collecting data on modern human postcranial variation. He hopes to continue this work with the goal of studying worldwide postcranial variation and possible forensic applications. This preliminary work was funded by a Bloomsburg University Research & Disciplinary Projects Grant.
James Mackin, provost and vice president for academic affairs, will be a featured speaker at the PA Heartlands press conference on Wednesday, Sept. 27, in Watsontown. PA Heartlands is a a promotional campaign designed to keep graduates in this area.
James Dalton, professor of psychology, is first author of a book just published: Community Psychology: Linking Individuals and Communities (second edition) published by Wadsworth/Thomson. Co-authors include Maurice Elias of Rutgers University, and Abraham Wandersman of University of South Carolina. The first edition was a popular textbook in the field, adopted in undergraduate courses and in graduate course reading lists in the U.S., Canada, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and elsewhere.
Jerry Wemple, associate professor of English, will read from his work Sunday, Sept. 3, at 3 p.m. at the Manayunk Art Center in Philadelphia. He will also host an evening of "Poetry about Pennsylvania" at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 12 during the monthly gathering of the River Poets at Phillips Emporium in downtown Bloomsburg. Wemple is the author of two collections of poetry, most recently The Civil War in Baltimore (Word Press, 2005), and co-editor of the anthology Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania (Penn State Press, 2005).
William Calhoun, associate professor of mathematics, computer science and statistics, participated in a workshop on Effective Randomness in Palo Alto, Calif. in August Calhoun was one of 29 mathematicians selected for the workshop, which was funded by the American Institute of Mathematics and the National Science Foundation. Calhoun was invited to speak on his paper "Degrees of Monotone Complexity," which will be published in an upcoming issue of the Journal of Symbolic Logic.
Julie Vandivere, associate professor of English, has been named a Fellow in Cornell University's European Studies Institute for the 2006-2007 school year. Her work on the ways that motherhood realigns perceptions of national boundaries within modernist discourse participates in the Institutes ongoing discussion of European nationalism in the 20th-century.
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BU will be filled with stories from three authors whose work has appeared on the New York Times best sellers list, in The New Yorker and in several literary journals and anthologies. The Big Dog Reading Series, hosted by the English department, will open with author John Hoppenthaler on Thursday, Oct. 5, at 7 p.m. in the Kehr Union Multicultural Center. His poetry has appeared in many literary journals and anthologies, including "Ploughshares," "Poet Lore" and "September 11, 2001: American Writers Respond." He is currently editing a collection of essays and interviews on the poetry of Jean Valentine. Details.
With a recent addition and entrances on several levels, Hartline Science Center can be one of the more confusing buildings on campus for new students to navigate. Geography faculty member Patty Beyer and Sean Oldfield, a Geography-Environmental Planning major Sean Oldfield created an online directory of the facility
The Student Recreation Center is operating under regular hours if Monday through Thursday, 6 a.m. to 11 p.m.; Friday 6 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday; 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Parking and traffic patterns are changing throughout campus so be alert when driving. Learn more.
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Convocation welcomes new students to BUBU President Jessica Kozloff, administrators and faculty officially welcomed BU's Class of 2010 at the new student convocation Friday, Aug. 25, in Haas Center for the Arts, Mitrani Hall. Kozloff said BU has existed for more than a century "to add values to our students' lives so you, in turn, can add value to the lives you touch." She outlined three main university values -- intellectual curiosity and academic integrity, diversity and civic engagement - which merge together for a successful personal and professional life. Details. |
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Quest takes a walking tour of IrelandQuest, BU's outdoor adventure program, sponsored a walking tour of Ireland this summer. Shown from left to right with a Bronze Aged megalith onvMt. Brandon on the Dingle Peninsula are Kevin Zuech (alum), Robert Feudale (alum), Judge Barry Feudale (alum),Alison Stone (staff), Judge Chet Harhut, Hunter Pugh, Brigid Pugh (faculty), Carolyn Harhut, Neil Todhunter. Quest director Roy Smith has written a travelogue about the trip . More information on Quest and upcoming events can be found here.. |
Films are free for students and those with a paid Community Activities fee and $1 for all others.
Films scheduled later in the fall include "Pirates of the Caribbean 2," "Superman Returns," and "The Devil Wears Prada."
Shelley C. Randall, professor of educational studies and secondary education, had an article, "Microteaching: Using Current Journal Articles in a University Methods Class. Published in Best Products for Teacher Preparation in Mathematics and Science: Monograph II, Collaborative for Excellence in Teacher Preparation in Pennsylvania (CETP-PA), 79-85. She also presented papers, "Constructivist Teaching: Describe and Rate Using the PCO," and "Co-Supervision Model: What Works" at the 2006 Teacher Education Forum: Achieving Excellence in Education through Effective Partnerships Conference in August in Harrisburg.
Stephen Whitworth, assistant professor of English, just published two more translations in the 2006 issue of the Almanac of Psychoanalysis. One was titled "The Name of the Jew," and was written by philosopher Francois Regnault. The other was titled "We Come Because We Have No Father, " and was by Lacanian analyst Yasmine Grasser.
Steven D. Hales, professor of philosophy published a book, Relativism and the Foundations of Philosophy (Cambridge: MIT Press).
Mark Bauman, residence life, has been selected as an article reviewer for Higher Education in Review, a journal published by Penn State's Center for the Study of Higher Education. Bauman is a Ph.D. candidate at PSU.
Kathy Kollar Valovage, residence life, has been elected to a two-year term (2006-2008) as state-wide Treasurer for SCUPA, the State College and University Professional Association. SCUPA represents the assistant and associate directors of admissions, financial aid, student activities, residence life, judicial, registrars, tutorial and academic assistance services, career services, Greek life, alumni relations and grant funded programs at the fourteen state universities across Pennsylvania.
David Minderhout, professor of anthropology, has published a book review in the September issue of American Anthropologist Vol. 108(3):592-593. He reviewed More Than Black: Afro-Cubans in Tampa by Susan Greenbaum (University of Florida Press).
BU's approximately 2,000 new students this fall have been selected from a record number of applicants. According to admissions director Chris Keller, the incoming fall freshmen were drawn from a new university record of 8,825 applications. This figure is an increase of 600 over last year and 2,000 over the number of applications received five years ago. Keller added that the students who applied to BU have become more committed to attending the university. "We've made fewer offers of admission this year, but the percentage of students who accepted that offer has increased. This really is a credit to the faculty and staff who have helped us throughout the year with our recruitment efforts." Details.
The Multicultural Center is sponsoring a bus trip to the beaches at Atlantic City on Sunday, Sept. 3. Cost is $25. Individuals ages 21 yrs and older are allowed in the casinos with proper ID. The casino will offer a rebate of $15 cash and $5 for food. The cost for those under age 21 is $10. Sign up at the Multicultural Center in the KUB Room 229. The bus leaves from Elwell Hall at 6:30 a.m.
The University Store is offering the service for you to purchase the New York Times Daily (Monday through Friday) for $29.20 beginning Monday, Aug. 28, and ending Friday, Dec. 8. To subscribe, pick up a form at the text desk in the University Store. Payment may be made by cash, check, Visa, MasterCard, or Discover cards.
U.S. News and World Report's annual ranking of U.S. colleges and universities once again lists BU as one of the best. In data released this week, U.S. News lists BU as number 83 in Best Universities-Master's for the northern region. BU is tied with Keene State College in New Hampshire and the State University of New York College at Oneonta. Details.
This year Bloomsburg University has a new procedure for registering vehicles of students who reside on campus to park. All Resident Students, those who live in the dorms, MOA, MPA or Kile Apartments must register their vehicle's information online via STINF before picking up their decal. Go to the STINF homepage, and click on the new feature labeled "Parking Decal" which will lead you through the process. You will need your vehicle's registration card to fill in all of the information. If you do not register online you will not be able to pick up your decal on August 31 and Sept. 1. More on student vehicle registration.
Move-in helpersJenna Hudak, left, and Ashley Follmer, help move new freshmen's belongings into Schuylkill Hall Tuesday morning. The 1,300 new freshmen will move-in onto campus over two days this year. Today students are moving into Luzerne, Schuylkill, and Columbia Halls. Wednesday, students are moving into Elwell, Northumberland, Montour and Lycoming halls. |
Honoring retired facultyPresident Jessica Kozloff recently hosted a picnic for retired faculty for over 60 retirees and their guests. Shown at left are Frank and Sandy Davis in the foreground and Dee Welk in the background. |
BU's Andruss Library is one of 11 public and academic libraries in the state currently testing a new, 24-hour information chat service. Ask Here PA, a $125,000 program developed by Pennsylvania's Office of Commonwealth Libraries, is designed to provide constant, real-time access to librarians when it begins Sept. 6. College students and faculty will be helped by librarians from participating colleges and universities; younger students and the public will be able to contact public librarians. Details.
BU's new freshmen will get a dose of college academics during their summer orientation. Every summer, BU's freshmen are assigned an article or book to read before Welcome Weekend and are asked to come to campus ready to discuss the reading. According to Maramonne Houseknecht, coordinator of new student orientation, this year's assignment focuses on civic engagement. Students are reading a 10-page article, "Civic Renewal vs. Moral Renewal" by Don Eberly, director of the Civil Society Project, a national initiative advancing ideas to strengthen America's social institutions and community life. Details.
BU is giving high school students a chance to "ace" college courses.The Advance College Experience Program (ACE) offers qualified juniors and seniors at local high schools the opportunity to enroll in for-credit university courses while still in high school. Students in the program may also save up to 75 percent on college tuition. Last year, more than 150 high school students took advantage of the program. Details.
Knepp students' voice on Council of Trustees
The student representative to BU's Council of Trustees' wants students to know he's available to listen to their questions and concerns. Steven Knepp of Middleburg, a senior at BU with a major in elementary education, was one of several students who applied for the position after the previous student Trustee graduated. He was interviewed by a screening committee and by Judy Hample, chancellor of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, before he was appointed by Gov. Ed Rendell in a process that took about five months. Details. |
The University Store at BU is offering two new options to make it more convenient for BU's 8,000 students to purchase textbooks. All students may now order their textbooks online, using the department course section numbers on their academic schedules. University Store personnel will pack the orders and either ship them to the student's home address or have them ready to be picked up in the store. A second innovation at BU this fall is the arrival of digital textbooks. Details.
All motor vehicles must be registered with the University Police Department. Parking decals are issued when vehicles are registered and must be properly displayed on the vehicle the same day you receive the decal.
Payment procedure: A decal fee will be placed on your account after you are issued a decal by University Police. The Commuter Student decal fee is $37 per semester. The Resident Student decal fee is $75 per semester.
The location for vehicle registration is in the Scranton Commons at the north side lobby across from the coffee shop.
Registration Schedule is as follows:
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Bio profs talk bones with Cub ScoutsBiology faculty Cindy Surmacz, Melinda Diltz and Margaret Till packed up some bones last week for a day-long program with more than 100 area cub scouts. The faculty talked with the six to ten-year olds about how bones are affected by out space and did experiments to demonstrate how older bones are more likely to break. Shown above at the camp are, from left: Diltz, Surmacz and Till. In the far right photo, a younger scout creates a skeleton from macaroni. | ||
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Shuttle ShelterUniversity work crews installed one of two new shuttle bus shelters on outside Centennial Hall yesterday. On the lower campus, the shuttle bus will also stop in the new parking lot behind McCormick and Bakeless Center. |
Steven Si, professor of management and international business, has presented his paper "Understanding Unfavorable Consequences of Social Capital in the Emerging Economics" on Aug. 14, at the Academy of Management Meeting in Atlanta.
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McCormick entrance, lot to reopen by FridayThe McCormick entrance to BU and parking lot, pictured above, will reopen by Friday, Aug. 18, according to Colin Reitmeyer, assistant director of facilities for planning and construction. The entrance and lot have been redesigned to make the entranceway from Lightstreet Road less steep and to improve traffic flow through the lot. |
There are tickets to Dorney Park and Wildwater Kingdom for this season available in the student activities office, Kehr Union room 350 Cost is $20 per ticket which gains you admission to the park on any day this season. Tickets are only good for the 2006 season and are not transferable to next year. Both parts of the park (Dorney and Wildwater) are open daily through September 4. Dorney is open on weekends through the end of October
Ruth R. Kennedy, assistant professor of early childhood and elementary education, has been appointed to a two-year term with the publications committee of the Association for Childhood Education International as well as a one-year term on the review board of the International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. On October 20, Kennedy will present "Reflective Practice: The Learning Style Self-Analysis of Teacher Candidates" at Phi Delta Kappa International's annual Summit on Public Education to be held in Washington, D.C. Her manuscript "We need to talk: Strategies for successful parent-teacher conferences" was recently published in Curriculum and Teaching. She was recently a guest lecturer at the Chinese Teacher Training Center in Beijing for the courses Math: International Curriculum and Philosophy of Education.
BU's Andruss Library will host the five-part reading and discussion series "Let's Talk About It: Jewish Literature-Identity and Imagination." The series will explore Jewish literature and culture though scholar-led discussions of contemporary and classic books that reflect the themes of estrangement and homecoming. Details.
BU freshman Laura DePrimo recently was awarded the Lake-Noxen Book Scholarship for academics and leadership. A member of the National Honors Society, DePrimo graduated from Lake-Lehman Junior-Senior High School, Lehman Township, and plans to major in elementary education at BU. She is the daughter of Matthew and Suzanne DePrimo of Harvey's Lake.
A BU freshman is among 16 Morris County, N.J., residents who received scholarships from DM Airport Developers, operator of the Morristown (N.J.) Municipal Airport. Erin Hazen, Morristown, a freshman elementary education major and graduate of Morristown High School, was awarded a $1,250 scholarship to help defray college expenses. The scholarships were awarded based on academic achievement, extracurricular activities and work experience.
Kellen Brown, an Accounting major who is enrolled in the Fraud Examination Career Concentration, is a recipient of the Ritchie-Jennings Memorial Scholarship through the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) Foundation. ACFE Foundation scholarships are $1,000 and include a one-year ACFE Student Associate membership. Scholarships are paid directly to the student's university.
The BU chapter of Financial Management Association (FMA) has earned the Superior Chapter Designation for the 2005-2006 academic year. This highly coveted award is given to fewer than five percent of FMA chapters. To receive this designation, the Bloomsburg FMA chapter had to meet a number of specific criteria, demonstrate exemplary chapter management, and excel in providing members program activities. FMA indicates that the contributions of the students and faculty at Bloomsburg University are exemplary. Victoria Geyfman, assistant professor, serves as chapter advisor.
The Office of Off-campus Housing asks departments to remind students who do not live in campus to be sure a local address is listed on STINF, particularly studneets involved in non-degree study, medical imaging, graduate students, student teachers, internshps, med-tech clinical, exchange programs, industry co-op, social work field education, study abroad and off-campus courses.
Students need to go to STINF at the beginning of each semester and complete the information regarding where they will be living while taking classes. Students will be able to update their address information on STINF until one week after registration closes. After that, they will need to stop in at the Off-Campus Housing Office in G27 Elwell Hall or call 389-4734 to update their local address. Students who want to update their home (permanent) address must contact the Registrar's Office in person or forward a signed statement indicating the change.
To assist with the summer reading assignment for new freshmen, the Orientation Office seeks faculty and staff volunteers to facilitate discussions during welcome weekend. This year's theme is civic engagement and the the reading choice is an article from a 1998 issue of Policy Review by Don Eberly. A study guide is being prepared to assist students and facilitators with their discussion. The discussion will take place on Friday, Aug. 25 at 10:30 a.m. Volunteers should contact Maramonne Houseknecht for details.
Sharon C. Lyter, assistant professor of social work, has been appointed to a three-year term with the Field Committee of the Council on Social Work Education (Alexandria, VA), beginning July 1.
Walter Brasch, professor of mass communications, has had his book 'Unacceptable': The Federal Response to Hurricane Katrina, go into its second printing. The frrst printing was released in January.
Conrad Quintyn, assistant professor of anthropology, assisted the Pennsylvania State Police, Bloomsburg, in the identification of bone fragments from cremated remains recovered by a private resident. Several fragments of unidentified bones brought in by officers of the Berwick Police Department were identified as non-human (animal bones).
John Pitcher retired from his position as Director of Andruss Library on Aug. 4. A search for the next head of the library will begin early in the Fall 2006 semester. Wayne Mohr will serve as the Interim Director of Andruss Library and will also continue to serve as the assistant vice president for information technology.
The Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) and State College and University Professional Association/PSEA/NEA (SCUPA) have reached a tentative agreement on a new contract. The new collective bargaining agreement with SCUPA would run through June 30, 2007. The tentative agreement must be ratified first by the SCUPA membership, then by PASSHE's Board of Governors before it can take effect. Details of the tentative agreement will be released upon ratification. Learn more
A number of offices in Kehr Union have been rearranged; phone numbers remain the same. Organization unit and new locations are:
J.C. Lee, a 2005 BU graduate secondary education English with a minor in theatre, has written a play that was premiered at the Williamstown Theatre Festival's leapFROG program and ACT I company this July. The play, "Paradise Now," is set in the future and tells the story of a young woman trying to conceive a child in a society fixated on rules, borders and technology. The leapFROG program pairs talented young writers and composers with the Boris Sagal and Bill Foeller Directing Fellows and our ACT I Company to create two new original works, a play and a musical. J.C. Lee's website.
Quest, BU's outdoor adventure program, is planning a weekend bicycling trip through the vineyards of the Finger Lakes region of New York on Oct. 7 and 8. The trip will take riders through vineyard-covered hillsides, along country roads, and pastoral scenes of buckwheat and apple orchards. The Finger Lakes region of Central New York is the oldest commercial wine-making area in the United States, and second only in production to California. quest.bloomu.edu.
Todd Doebler, a 1996 BU grad with a degree in psychology, has been named head men's tennis coach at Penn State. Doebler, who was named the 2004 and 2006 Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Midwest Region Assistant Coach of the Year, completed his fourth year as an assistant coach at Notre Dame this spring. He was named associate head coach prior to the 2005-06 season. Doebler excelled on the court during his playing career. He won the conference doubles and team championships in 1994 and brought home the conference singles, doubles and team championship titles in 1995.
Alumna named Miss Pennsylvania United States
Kimberlee Pedersen of Allentown, a 2005 BU graduate was crowned Miss Pennsylvania United States recently at the state competition held at Montgomery County Community College in Blue Bell. Pedersen currently works as a marketing associate and freelances as a model and actress. She will travel to Charlotte, North Carolina in September to compete for the title of Miss United States. |
The following sabbaticals for 2007 and 2008 have been approved:
Quest director Roy Smith has written a travelogue about BU's outdoor adventure program's recent walking tour of Ireland, in which a dozen community members participated. In his account Smith provides plenty of local color and historic context of the visit to the emerald isle. Details.
Jennifer Miller, spring 2005 graduate in Anthropology and Biology, received the John Henry Brookes International Student Scholarship to attend Oxford Brookes University, England in Fall 2006. Jennifer will enter the masters program in primate conservation. The scholarship is valued at £3,200 ($6,700).
