Several students won awards and scholarships this past year. Here are just some of their achievements.
- Marissa Angelo was among the 253 students in the nation selected to receive a $10,000 scholarship from the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) for the 2021-2022 academic year.
- Mary-Katherine Cotter was awarded a 2021 Huayu Enrichment Chinese Language Immersion Scholarship from the Education Division of Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York.
- The Royal Experience Summer Internship Program provided five University students, selected from a competitive pool, a stipend of up to $4,000 to support their participation in a meaningful unpaid internship for the summer of 2021. This summer, recipients interned at Manhattan Justice Opportunities and for the Churches for the Middle East Peace and researched in biology labs, among other experiences.
- Scranton students won top awards at state-level business competitions to qualify for the 2021 Phi Beta Lambda National Leadership Conference in its first year of existence as a chapter at Scranton.
- For the third consecutive year, the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA) named the University’s student chapter as one of just five Outstanding Student Chapters in the nation for the 2020-2021 academic year. Additionally, the IMA student chapter president, Grace Gallagher, was awarded the IMA’s Memorial Education Fund Scholarship for 2020.
- Students representing the University came in first place in the inaugural two-day Cyber Forensic Student Competition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance. Ten college teams from the northeastern U.S. competed. The competition included evidence discovery, gathering and preservation, investigation and analysis.
Find out about other student achievements in Royal News, here.
