East Stroudsburg University

Upward Bound is a federal program that prepares underserved students in grades 9 through 12 for college success. Founded through the Educational Opportunity Act of 1964, the program has continued to have an important place on the ESU's campus for ...

Jessica E. Null, a senior at East Stroudsburg University majoring in political science and history, presented research at the Northeastern Political Science Association's 53rd Annual meeting. The meeting was held virtually, November 11-13. Kimberly S. Adams, Ph.D., professor of political science, received ESU's Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (S.U.R.E.) grant and selected Null to assist her in collecting and entering data on restrictive voter laws. The purpose of S.U.R.E. is to support faculty/student research pairs over the summer months. The goals are to develop the necessary skill set of undergraduate students to help them become student researchers and to provide faculty members with paid student research assistants. Undergraduate students selected for the program received summer pay for research tasks assigned by their faculty supervisor. By assisting faculty members in their research, students selected for the program learned the knowledge and skills necessary for conducting advanced research in their field. This grant is not intended to support students in their own thesis work. The project should be one primarily initiated by, and to support, a faculty member's research.

On Monday, November 8, a group of ESU resident advisors (RAs) participated in a basic fire extinguisher training. Nate Black, ESU's director of environmental health and safety, led the training.

ESU is honored to recognize the following faculty, students, and alumni for their recent accomplishments in their fields of study.

ESU Interim President, Kenneth Long, along with his colleagues and students talk about the impact COVID-19 has had on them in their professional and personal lives, and why they decided to get vaccinated.

The newest member of East Stroudsburg University's Council of Trustees (COT), William Green, received the oath of office on Monday, June 14 from COT Chairperson, L. Patrick Ross '67 of Bartonsville.

When Hafiz Tunis Jr. was appointed to the Upper Darby Council in February 2020 at the age of 23, he was the youngest person ever to serve on the governing body of that township, which has a population larger than the City of Scranton.

Four students from ESU's College of Business and Management competed in the virtual 2021 Pennsylvania Sports Business Conference Case Competition on April 23.

ESU's Community Health Organization, a student club in the department of health studies, sponsored a contest to create a public service announcement (PSA) or a meme to encourage students to get vaccinated against COVID-19. They were joined in their efforts by the department of wellness education and prevention.

ESU was represented for the first time at The Capstone Improvement Showcase.

David Akinwande, a junior majoring in nursing from Bristol, Pa. and a member of the East Stroudsburg University football team, had a unique opportunity to administer a COVID-19 vaccine to one of ESU's athletic trainers, Jayme Galdieri, last month....

In the midst of the pandemic that has left so many people feeling isolated, two ESU professors and three students collaborated on designing face shields that can make human contact safer and communications easier.

The Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Program (GEAR UP) program helps at-risk students in the Allentown, Harrisburg, and Norristown school districts navigate through high school.

The COVID-19 pandemic and primarily remote learning upset student life in 2020 as never before. But so did national unrest surrounding racial injustice, along with the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement. Both disruptions were the focus of the 2020 Inclusion Poster Project, a collaboration between philosophy and graphic design students at East Stroudsburg University, which is now in its third year.

East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania has announced the 2021 Boddie Scholarship and Martin Luther King Jr. awards recipients to be recognized at the 24th annual virtual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration scheduled for Monday, January 18 at 6 p.m.

A total of 447 students who will receive degrees from East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania on December 19, 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, traditional ceremonies could not take place, but all degrees will be conferred upon completion of coursework.

Fourteen psychology students from ESU were recently accepted into Psi Chi: The International Honor Society in Psychology. Psi Chi holds the distinction of being the largest student psychological organization in the world, having over 700,000 members.

Austin Weitman, a sophomore majoring in sport management at ESU, will have a behind-the-scenes view of the 2021 Super Bowl in Tampa, Fla., thanks to a scholarship he received from Living Sport.

Seven students from ESU will participate in The Osgood Center for International Studies Virtual Presidential Inauguration Program, January 11-21, 2021.

Members of ESU's Computer Science Student Organization raised $2,147 by participating in Extra Life, a 24-hour live stream video-playing event intended to raise funds for hospitals around the world.

The annual Army-Navy football game will be played at Michie Stadium on West Point's campus this Saturday for the first time in nearly eight decades - and two members of the Army football program with connections to ESU will be involved in the historic event.

The ESU Panhellenic Council held its annual Project Turkey fundraiser from September 29-November 15.

Theodore Mostellar, an ESU senior from Stroudsburg, Pa. majoring in athletic training, has been selected as a recipient of the 2021 District 2 Paula Turocy Scholarship Award by the Eastern Athletic Trainers Association (EATA).

ESU's Art + Design Department and the Student Art Association held a pumpkin carving contest for students, faculty and staff.

ESU student and men's basketball player Ryan Smith, who was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia in summer 2019, is featured by People Magazine after a tweet by his girlfriend, Molly Gorczyca, about their meeting and relationship gathered more than 1.7 million likes by mid-October.

Members of ESU's Wellness Education and Prevention team partnered with staff and volunteers from Women's Resources of Monroe County earlier this week to display Pinwheels for Peace, a campaign to raise awareness and to prevent domestic violence/intimate partner violence as part of the month-long Domestic Violence Awareness Month.

Students from ESU's Art Illustration class joined other area artists in creating memorable monster faces as part of a GO Collaborative Stroudsburg initiative known as "Spooky Stroudsburg," intended to boost local businesses.

Despite the fact that the spring 2020 semester at East Stroudsburg University was largely remote, students from ESU's radio station, WESS (90.3 FM), made the unanimous decision to share their fundraising dollars with Meals On Wheels of Monroe County.

East Stroudsburg University graduate student Leah Bergman was accepted to a prestigious marine science doctoral program Kitasato University in Japan.

East Stroudsburg University graduate students in athletic training will be pioneering "the new normal" when they return to campus for two weeks of summer classes, in part to do hands-on lab work in anatomy.