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  • College announces graduation speakers for traditional, SCPS ceremonies

    College announces graduation speakers for traditional, SCPS ceremonies

    A Campus News email distributed on Friday, April 10 announced the speakers for commencement ceremonies of both the traditional school and School of Continuing and Professional Studies (SCPS). E. Roe Stamps IV will speak at the traditional school’s ceremony, and Dana Chryst has been chosen to speak at the SCPS graduation. Stamps supports current undergraduate

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  • Model United Nations class attends national conference in New York City

    Late last month, students in Elizabethtown College’s Model United Nations course attended the National Model United Nations conference in New York City to participate in simulated UN committees. From March 22 to March 26, the 14 students in the class, taught by Dr. Oya Dursun-Ozkanca, associate professor of political science, represented different delegates of Bosnia

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  • Students attend trip, volunteer to understand poverty at local level

    The Rural Poverty Trip, conducted by the Center for Community and Civic Engagement, traveled to Paradise, Pa. on Friday, April 10 for an overnight trip that introduced students to the various hardships faced by a person living in poverty on a daily basis. The students teamed up with “The Factory,” a faith-based organization in Paradise,

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  • First Momentum cohort reaches end of undergraduate years

    First Momentum cohort reaches end of undergraduate years

    On April 7, the first Momentum cohort looked back at their time and forward to their graduation this May with a celebratory dinner. Momentum is a program that incoming first-years who are first generation college students have the option of participating in. “We accentuate the liberal arts,” Jean Paul Benowitz, director of student transition programs,

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  • Stamps program students attend convention, meet other scholars

    Sixteen Elizabethtown College students flew down to Atlanta, Ga. to attend the third biennial National Stamps Scholar Convention at the Georgia Institute of Technology this past weekend. The students, accompanied by Dr. Jean Pretz, associate professor of psychology and director of the Stamps program, had the opportunity to meet an estimated 600 Stamps scholars from

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  • Political science professor wins first Kreider prize

    Political science professor wins first Kreider prize

    Dr. Oya Dursun-Ozkanca, associate professor of political science, was announced as the first recipient of Elizabethtown College’s Kreider Prize for Teaching Excellence. She will be officially recognized during Commencement this May and at Opening Convocation in the fall. Her fellow faculty, staff members and students both present and past nominated Dursun-Ozkanca for the Kreider Prize.

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  • Business administration alumna Martina White elected to Pennsylvania House of Representatives

    On Friday, March 24, Elizabethtown College alumna Martina White ’10 was elected to serve in Northeast Philadelphia’s 170th District. The election was held following U.S. Representative Brendan Boyle’s departure from the 170th District, and White defeated opponent Democrat Sarah Del Ricci by a 14 percent margin. White’s victory marked the first time in 24 years

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  • Pulitzer Prize winner gives 2015 Ware Lecture, addresses activism

    Pulitzer Prize winner gives 2015 Ware Lecture, addresses activism

    On Monday, April 13 Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof delivered Elizabethtown College’s 2015 Ware lecture, during which he discussed his work as a journalist and human rights activist. The Ware lecture, sponsored by Judy S. ’68 and Paul W. Ware and Etown’s Center for Global Understanding and Peacemaking, focused on Kristof’s latest

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  • Ants march on campus as warm weather arrives

    With spring comes warm weather, and with warm weather comes bugs. This week, Elizabethtown College sent an email to students warning them of the impending march of ants on campus. Mark Zimmerman, director of Facilities Management, advised students, staff and faculty to keep their offices and rooms free of food. Ants are attracted to crumby

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