East Stroudsburg University

The East Stroudsburg University community welcomed students, faculty and staff to kick off the holiday season by signing ESU's Giant Holiday Card, a tradition now in its seventh year.

Three graduate students studying biology at East Stroudsburg have each been recognized for their research. All three students work at ESU's Northeast Wildlife DNA Laboratory.

ESU students were recognized by the University's Council of Trustees (COT) during its public meeting on Thursday, November 29 for their quick action to provide both CPR and AED intervention to an individual who experienced sudden cardiac arrest during a workout in the Mattioli Recreation Center on September 11, 2018. The individual in need of medical attention was John Tobin, the evening help desk coordinator for computing and communications and husband of Dr. Doreen Tobin, vice president of student affairs. The immediate action of the students enabled EMT personnel to transport John to the hospital where he fought bravely for nearly two weeks before his passing on September 24. COT Chair Pat Ross '67 took the opportunity to personally thank the students and applaud their training in CPR and the use of AED equipment. Ross also applauded the University's recent decision to invest in additional AED equipment throughout campus in collaboration with the Gregory W. Moyer Defibrillator Fund organization.

Working is a musical that tells "the story of everyman and everywoman out there today!" explained William Mutimer, guest director of the November 14-18 production by East Stroudsburg University's Theatre Department. Based on the best-selling oral history by Studs Terkel, the book's subtitle, People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do, describes the focus of the musical which paints a fascinating picture of the core human truths that transcend professions.

Dr. Daniel Greenstein, the fifth chancellor of Pennsylvania's State System of Higher Education, visited East Stroudsburg University on Friday, November 2 to talk to constituents about the opportunities and challenges facing the University and the State System. Chancellor Greenstein toured the ESU Innovation Center and met with ESU President, Marcia G. Welsh, Ph.D.; vice presidents, academic deans, student leaders, faculty and staff leaders, and the ESU Council of Trustees. Chancellor Greenstein also held an open forum with the campus community and the community at large. Pictured: Dr. Daniel Greenstein, chancellor of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education meets with student leaders at ESU. First Row, left to right: Abigail Soto, Judaha Amoroso, Darian Cruz, and Francina Phillips. Standing, left to right: Levi Murphy, Dr. Daniel Greenstein, and Wendell Smallwood.

Geographical maps can give people the lay of the land and road maps tell them how to get to where they want to go. Now East Stroudsburg University has launched a project creating maps that show the places people in the Stroudsburg and East Stroudsburg area care about.

Two students represented East Stroudsburg University at the Leadership Institute for Undergraduate Women. The institute provides a forum for the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) to nurture the leadership potential of women students. The Institute was held at the Mount Asbury Retreat Center in Newville, Pa. June 3-7.

East Stroudsburg University's women's rugby sevens squad is set to join 15 club teams from across the country at the 2018 Penn Mutual Collegiate Rugby Championship in Philadelphia this June.

Under a bright blue sky, more than two dozen students and faculty from China kayaked the Delaware River from the Kittatinny Point Visitors Center to Portland, Pa., guided by East Stroudsburg University students and staff last week.

The East Stroudsburg University Chapter of Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society, hosted its 43nd annual science honors banquet on April 27 at the Stroudsmoor Country Inn in Stroudsburg, Pa. At the banquet, Sigma Xi honored students from seven departments within the College of Arts and Sciences.

Several faculty members and students from the East Stroudsburg University's department of communication sciences and disorders attended the March annual conference of the Pennsylvania Speech-Language-Hearing Association in Pittsburgh.

East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania held its annual Relay for Life on Friday, April 6 in Koehler Fieldhouse. Student teams competed to raise the most money for the American Cancer Society. Nearly 500 students participated in the event and raised $25,350.68, the most money ever raised at an ESU Relay For Life event.

This semester, 35 East Stroudsburg University students in the University Honors Program met every Wednesday for six weeks with students from the Older Adult Learning Center in East Stroudsburg for an intergenerational collaborative course on happiness and the meaning of life. As part of an introduction to philosophy class taught by Tim Connolly, Ph.D., professor of philosophy and religious studies, the older and younger students discussed questions about the definition of happiness and its basic components, whether happiness is determined by individual choice or genetic and environmental factors, and the connection between a happy life and a meaningful one.

Seven members of East Stroudsburg University's Equestrian team have been named to the All-American Academic team by the Intercollegiate Horse Shows Association.

The Phi Beta chapter of Kappa Delta Rho at East Stroudsburg University is hosting the B+ Festival Sunday April 15 in an effort to combat children's cancer.

The East Stroudsburg University Theatre Department will present the 1879 Henrik Ibsen play A Doll's House April 17-22 in the Smith McFarland Theatre of the Fine and Performing Arts Center, Normal and Marguerite streets, East Stroudsburg.

Intercollegiate Broadcasting System (IBS) named East Stroudsburg University senior Elizabeth Roberts a winner in the 2017-2018 IBS College Awards.

East Stroudsburg University has two student teams still in the running for the $10,000 top prize in the seventh annual Business Plan Competition held by Pennsylvania's State System of Higher Education.

East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania student Zaria Cyriaque will talk about how being active and maintaining a healthy lifestyle helps lead to success in college on this week's episode of Infinite Opportunities, which will air Sunday morning on the Pennsylvania Cable Network (PCN).

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 was well represented at the Pennsylvania College English Association (PCEA) 2018 Conference held at Hotel Bethlehem March 23-24. Three ESU students and six faculty members participated in the two-day conference by presenting papers or serving on a panel related to the conference theme, "Rise Up: Social Protest in Literature, Creative Writing, and Pedagogy."

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.

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.

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.

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.