COLLEGE NEWS
Alexis Bishop of Oak Ridge participated in Susquehanna University's annual LeaderShape program in January.
The LeaderShape Institute is a six-day leadership seminar for college students, focusing on a range of activities and informational sessions that build community and inspire participants to be better campus leaders. The program engages students, faculty and staff facilitators, and aims to both strengthen the network of existing campus leaders and prepare newer students for future leadership roles.
Bishop is a political science and creative writing major at Susquehanna. The daughter of Thomas and Jennifer Bishop, she is a 2012 graduate of Jefferson Township High School.
She, along with Jennifer Wendt and Robert Zajdel, both of Oak Ridge, were named to the dean's list at Susquehanna.
The dean's list recognizes students who achieve a grade point average of 3.4 or higher out of a possible 4.0 for the semester.
Morgan Carey of Stockholm and Emily Hollenbach of Hamburg were named to the dean's list at Marist College for the fall 2014 semester.
Carey is a business administration major and Hollenbach is majoring in English.
Robert Zajdel of Oak Ridge is serving an internship this spring at Susquehanna Valley Country Club.
Zajdel's responsibilities include creating a method to help staff recognize and access information about individual members, providing club management with refined data, and providing club management with recommendations regarding the best use and utilization of existing banquet event order software. Through the course of the internship, he will gain experience in creating and revising POS data collection methods and creating easy to understand reports for the staff.
Zajdel is an information systems major in the class of 2015.
Heather Jeanne Marra of Oak Ridge, the daughter of Christopher Marra and Jeanne C. Marra, and a 2013 graduate of Jefferson Township High School was named to the dean's list at Juaniata College for the fall 2014 semester.
Each student must have at least a 3.6 grade average out of a possible 4.0.
Daniel Grinthal of Lafayette and Kristen Swerzenski and Justin Thomas, both of Oak Ridge were named to the dean's list for the fall 2014 semester at Rochester Institute of Technology.
Degree-seeking undergraduate students are eligible for dean's list if their term GPA is greater than or equal to 3.4, they do not have any grades of "Incomplete", "D" or "F"; and they have registered for, and completed, at least 12 credit hours.
Michael Astor of Ogdensburg, Anthony Castellucci and Dallis Guillemin, both of Stockholm, and Aaron Little of Lafayette were named to the dean's list at Lafayette College.
Each student achieved at least a 3.60 semester grade point average on a 4.0 scale.
Amanda Spence of Lafayette, Vanessa Perruccio of Oak Ridge, Robert Santiago of Hamburg, and Macey Hueber of Oak Ridge were named to the dean's list for the fall 2014 semester at Fairleigh Dickinson University for the fall 2014 semester.
To qualify for the dean's list, a student must carry a 3.2 or better grade point average out of a possible 4.0 and be enrolled in a minimum of 12 letter-graded hours.
Jennifer Bruce of Hamburg, Rebecca Schulman of Franklin, Alexia Wint of Hamburg and Samantha Holleritter of Oak Ridge and Ivan Cruz of Oak Ridge were named to the honors list at Fairleigh Dickinson University's Metropolitan campus.
To qualify for the honor's list, a student must carry a 3.5 or better grade point average out of a possible 4.0 and be enrolled in a minimum of 12 letter-graded hours.
Samantha Serafino of Oak Ridge has been named to the dean's list for the fall 2014 semester at Loyola University.
In order to qualify for the Dean's List at Loyola, a student must have a GPA of at least 3.5 with a minimum of 15 credits.
Kathleen Murray of Hardyston was named to the dean's list of Stockton University for the fall 2014 semester.
Melissa Dellacato of Oak Ridge was recognized with the Peggy Ryan Williams Award for Academic and Community Leadership from the Roy H. Park School of Communications at Ithaca College.
Nominees for the award must be a junior or senior and maintain at least a 3.0 cumulative GPA, be in good judicial standing and made a minimum of three contributions in academic, community service or extracurricular activities.