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Students Receive Scholarships, Participate in Internships, Place at Competitions

Eleven students from The University of Scranton’s Class of 2028 have been awarded four-year, full-tuition Presidential Scholarships. Seated, from left, are: Rev. Joseph G. Marina, S.J., president of the University; and Presidential Scholars Juliana Monforte, Lainey Conway and Paige Barnett. Standing are: Sarah Kenehan, Ph.D., executive director of the University’s Gail and Francis Slattery Center for Ignatian Humanities; and Presidential Scholars Adrian Agnello, Lucas Veneziale, Christopher Monda, Meghan Wong, Samantha Horsnall, Rosalie Avalos, Samantha Roerig and Connor Peters.
Eleven students from The University of Scranton’s Class of 2028 have been awarded four-year, full-tuition Presidential Scholarships. Seated, from left, are: Rev. Joseph G. Marina, S.J., president of the University; and Presidential Scholars Juliana Monforte, Lainey Conway and Paige Barnett. Standing are: Sarah Kenehan, Ph.D., executive director of the University’s Gail and Francis Slattery Center for Ignatian Humanities; and Presidential Scholars Adrian Agnello, Lucas Veneziale, Christopher Monda, Meghan Wong, Samantha Horsnall, Rosalie Avalos, Samantha Roerig and Connor Peters.

Several students won awards and scholarships this past year. Here are just some of their achievements.

• Undergraduate students majoring in mathematics and computer science, along with faculty from the Mathematics Department, and a graduate student pursuing a master’s degree in business analytics, presented research at two multi-state regional conferences. The research was conducted with faculty advisor Joseph Klobusicky, Ph.D., assistant professor of mathematics, during the summers of 2023 and 2024 and was supported by grants from NASA and the National Science Foundation (NSF) Launching Early-Career Academic Pathways in Mathematical and Physical Sciences (LEAPS-MPS) grants.

• The University’s Nu Kappa chapter of Beta Alpha Psi, the international honor society for financial information students and professionals, achieved Gold Chapter status for the 2023-2024 academic year. This is the chapter’s second time achieving this status, having earned it for the  2022-2023 ac-ademic year. The chapter began at Scranton in 2015.

• Sixteen University of Scranton ROTC cadets participated in leadership training programs that took them to Hawaii, Colorado, Georgia, Germany, Kyrgyzstan and Taiwan through several highly-selective programs.

• Twenty-one students in a Social Media Campaigns class led by Dr. Brian Snee ’93, associate professor in the Communications and Media Department, participated and won third place in the Gift of Life 2024 Students Save Lives College Challenge after organizing and publicizing virtual and on-campus outreach efforts in support of a national nonprofit organization that registers organ, tissue and cornea donors.

• Four students placed in the top ten in competitions at the 2024 Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) National Leadership Conference, which took place in June in Orlando, Florida. In total, the four University students took home five trophies.

• Eleven students participated in a study abroad program in South Korea led by Michael Jenkins, Ph.D. ’06, and Sinchul Back, Ph.D., professors in the University’s Department of Criminal Justice, Cybersecurity and Sociology. Scranton teams excelled in the cybercrime investigation capture-the-flag (CTF) challenge, securing fifth, sixth, and eighth places among the international teams. Four students were invited to present their research and projects at the student poster session of the conference. Dr. Back was the faculty co-author on the research studies presented.

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