East Stroudsburg University

With a gaggle of elementary school children in front of him, Dane Barhite was peppering the kids with questions about small containers of different types of liquids on a table in the Innovation Center at East Stroudsburg University.

East Stroudsburg University's student group PRIDE (People Representing Individual Diversity in Education) will host guest speaker Tyler Titus. Titus became the first openly transgender person to be elected in Pennsylvania when he won a seat on the Erie School Board in 2017. He will speak on campus on March 22, 2018, in Stroud Hall room 113 at 7:30 p.m.

Active Minds, an East Stroudsburg University student organization that strives to change the conversation about mental health, is accepting submissions for an upcoming art exhibit titled Piece of Mind: An Exhibit with a Focus on Mental Health. Submissions will be accepted in the mediums of drawing, graphic design, painting, and visual poetry/spoken word. Each piece should depict something related to mental health.

Starting this fall, East Stroudsburg University will become the first public university in Pennsylvania to guarantee the same fixed-rate tuition for all four years for degree-seeking undergraduate students.

Building a community is the focus of Godspell, the classic musical of the 1970s being performed February 28 and March 1-4 by East Stroudsburg University's department of theatre.

During its February 15 public meeting, the East Stroudsburg University Council of Trustees recognized ESU ROTC cadets.

East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania selected the winners for the 2018 Boddie Scholarship, Martin Luther King Jr. awards, and the Julianna V. Bolt Art Contest. The winners will be recognized at the 21st annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Breakfast, which will be held on January 15 in the Mattioli Recreation Center on ESU's campus from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m.

When the fall 2017 semester ended last December, 11 students at East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania began preparing for the international European Union Simulation (Eurosim). As part of a political science course offered over winter break the students, accompanied by L. Johan Eliasson, Ph.D., professor of political science, participated in Eurosim in Brussels, Belgium from January 4-7, 2018. The rigorous, four-day exercise strives to enhance participants' knowledge of international law, the European Union (the world's largest single market, largest economy, and emerging political union, consisting of 28 member states), negotiating strategy, and diplomatic protocol, by negotiating real life legal and policy problems. The 2018 simulation was held at the Free University in Brussels.

Interning at a hospital technology department after their freshman year at East Stroudsburg University, Zach Waldman and Nick Neely got tired of having to stop projects to go fix the computers of employees who had accidently downloaded malware while clicking on ads.

Christopher Brooks, Dr. phil., associate professor of history, attended the 2017 Leon Silverman Lecture Series in Washington, D.C. with three East Stroudsburg University students.