Alumni Profiles
Spring 2023
Belinda Juran, Esq. ’81: Community Advocate & Change Agent Improving Lives
First female recipient of the Frank J. O’Hara Award for General Academic Excellence believes connections are key to community development.
Feature
July 2022
Student-Led Investing Pays Off
The PRISM student group has successfully managed a portion of the University’s endowment from $100,000 to nearly $1 million in 23 years.
Alumni Profiles
Spring 2023
History According to Jennifer Janofsky, Ph.D. ’95
Inspired by Scranton professors she saw as storytellers, this public historian embarked on a career teaching
both students and the public.
On the Commons
July 2022
Program Offers Degrees to Inmates
The University’s Prison Education Program at the State Correctional
Institution at Dallas “provides an opportunity for the
cultivation of human dignity at the heart of a Jesuit education,”
according to program director Christopher Haw, Ph.D.
Alumni News
Spring 2023
Estate Society: Erin O’Malley Tysko, M.D. ’89: Encouraging Excellence
Alumna and her husband establish scholarship to encourage women to pursue careers in STEM fields.
Focus on Faculty
July 2022
Faculty Member Leads Pysanka Workshops to Benefit Ukraine
Fourth-generation Ukrainian-American Amelia Randich, Ph.D., an assistant professor of biology at Scranton, led four pysanka workshops in April on campus to raise money for World Central Kitchen for humanitarian aid in Ukraine.