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Keyboard Wizard

Alan Poltorak is a wizard of the piano keyboard and the recording soundboard. Poltorak a December ’17 graduate in music, has both played Carnegie Hall in New York City and engineered an album. With...

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BU wins Frederick Douglass Debate Society tourney

Bloomsburg University’s Frederick Douglass Debate Society competed in the fourth annual end-of-the-year debate tournament at West Chester University on Thursday, April 5. The two-member BU team...

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GBA springs into CUIBE Conference

Bloomsburg University’s Global Business Association (GBA) was brought to campus to inform its students of cultural awareness and its importance in our lives, especially in the business world. Every...

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BASTL helps account manager prove to herself

Nicole Morrissey always felt she was “lacking a bit’’ by not having her degree and was concerned that she would soon hit the ceiling in her career. As an account manager for outside sales at Airgas...

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BASTL opens door to new career opportunity

Five years ago, Esteffani Alcantra was living in the Bronx and was a patient outreach manager for a hospital system. She oversaw a team of 12, but the single mother knew that without a degree, chances...

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BASTL proves to be right prescription for career advancement

Shawn Silvoy loves working in health care and relishes the challenges of working as the Lehigh Valley Health Network’s liaison between its hospitals and roughly 150 ambulance services. But the 37-year...

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Constructing her future using a BASTL foundation

As soon as Shyese Brown started her internship at a Harrisburg-area builder, she found herself using some of the skills she learned in her Bachelor of Applied Science in Technical Leadership (BASTL)...

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Race fan’s BASTL helps rev up career

Jaime Juan Guerrero is a race fan and relished his time spent at various driving schools, but he knew that to shift his career into high gear he needed a different kind of education. After working...

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Family ties, research lay foundation for possible teaching future

Heading to this spring’s American Association of Geographers annual meeting Owen Wickenheiser didn’t expect to see a familiar face among the 7,000-plus geographers and researchers on location in New...

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Math major weighs grad options, job opportunity

Chase Sakitis’s childhood passion has led to — not one but three — post-graduation options. The graduating Bloomsburg University mathematics major will have a choice between a master’s program in...