East Stroudsburg University

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.

The East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania (ESU) chapter of Sigma Phi Omega, the national honor society in gerontology, recently inducted 10 new students into its membership.

The University Leadership Award is presented to a graduating senior who has demonstrated leadership in student officer positions and in other extra-curricular activities. It is one of the highest non-academic honors a senior can receive. To be eligible, a student must have attended the university for at least two years and have a cumulative grade point average of 2.60 or above.

A total of 1,205 students will receive degrees from East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania at separate commencement exercises for undergraduate and graduate students on May 4 and May 5.

East Stroudsburg University's Department of Nursing hosted its 15th annual Nursing Challenge on April 26 in the Abeloff Center for the Performing Arts.

Accompanied by Kimberly S. Adams, Ph.D., professor of political science, 26 students from East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania took part in The State System Student Leadership Summit on April 24, 2018. The student-focused Leadership Summit provided a unique space for State System student leaders to develop and refine leadership competencies through presentations, breakout sessions, and networking. Each participant had the opportunity to build relationships with a diverse panel of Pennsylvania leaders from Governor Wolf's office, Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry, State System's Office of the Chancellor, and the World Affairs Council of Harrisburg.

Wenxiao "Alvin" Shang, a master's degree candidate from Beijing, China, will be the student speaker for East Stroudsburg University's spring graduate commencement ceremony on Friday, May 4, at 6:45 p.m. in Koehler Fieldhouse.

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.

Louis Wein, a graduating communication major from Schwenksville, Pa., is East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania's student speaker for the spring commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 5, at 8:45 a.m., and Hayley Jackson, a communication sciences & disorders major from Bath, Pa., is the student speaker for the spring commencement ceremony at 1:45 p.m. Both ceremonies will be held in Koehler Fieldhouse

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.

A new Arboretum Guide provides a tour of 48 different species from among the countless trees comprising the 100-acre arboretum, the landscaped portion of the 258-acre campus.

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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.

East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania Students won the second and third place prizes in the seventh annual Student Business Plan Competition sponsored by Pennsylvania's State System of Higher Education.

When her 15-year-old son Greg collapsed of sudden cardiac arrest at a basketball game in 2000, Rachel Moyer watched helplessly as medical aid arrived too late to save him.

East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania Students won the second and third place prizes in the seventh annual Student Business Plan Competition sponsored by Pennsylvania's State System of Higher Education. An ESU student also won the Student Choice Award.

East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania Students won the second and third place prizes in the seventh annual Student Business Plan Competition sponsored by Pennsylvania's State System of Higher Education.

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

East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania Students won the second and third place prizes in the seventh annual Student Business Plan Competition sponsored by Pennsylvania's State System of Higher Education.

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 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 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).

On Thursday, March 22 East Stroudsburg University will host the ESU Timeless Women Expo and Lecture. The event is hosted by ESU Feminist Alliance and co-sponsored by The Political Science Club, The ESU Chapter of the National Council of Negro Women, and the ESU Queens of Color Organization.

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.