December 07, 2023
A historic, record-breaking capital campaign, 引人注目的师生研究, a world-renowned classical musician performed on campus and much more — it’s been another memory-making year at Susquehanna University. 以下是2023年我们最喜欢的一些故事.
活动超出目标2000万美元
The Give Rise campaign shone a spotlight on the enviable loyalty and engagement Susquehanna enjoys with its supportive base of alumni, parents, faculty, 帮助实现以下目标的工作人员和朋友:
- $22.300万元支持21个重大基建改善项目, 他们中的许多人在校园里建立了新命名的空间.
- $56.3 million in gifts creating 265 new funds to fortify support for students and augment resources for programmatic and faculty development.
- $106.4 million in gifts and estate commitments to Susquehanna’s endowment to bolster the university’s financial foundation.
Alumni earn prestigious honors
Judge Abigail Myers ’01 LeGrow 被州参议院确认为特拉华州最高法院大法官, 在被州长提名之后. 约翰·卡尼来填补空缺. 勒格鲁自2016年以来一直在该州高等法院任职.
Devon Taylor ’04 was part of the Gimlet Media team that was honored with a Pulitzer Prize and Peabody Award for audio broadcasting for the podcast Stolen: Surviving St. Michael’s，讲述了土著儿童在圣. 加拿大的迈克尔印第安人寄宿学校. 泰勒目前是《浩博体育app》的高级编辑.
Madelyn Correllus ’22 被授予富布赖特U.S. Student Program award from the U.S. Department of State to pursue her master’s degree in sociology at the University of Sheffield in England.
Itzhak Perlman wows in Weber
今晚的节目是由Stella Freeman Weis文化基金会赞助的. 帕尔曼用贝多芬的作品使音乐会的观众肃然起敬, Brahms, Leclair, Schumann and others, as well as the Theme from Schindler’s List by John Williams.
斯坦研究员实习生遍布三大洲
Discover 我们的学生在澳大利亚经历了多元化的专业和跨文化之旅, Germany, Ireland, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, Spain and Vietnam.
LGBTQ+资源中心提供支持
位于浩博体育app之家，毗邻查尔斯B. Degenstein Campus Center, 该中心的成立部分是由于LGBTQ+学生的需求不断增长. 该中心提供LGBTQ+文学作品和特别节目，包括正念课程.
除了开放资源中心, 浩博体育app今年还为LGBTQ+学生建造了专门的住房.
Sustainability starts with SU
With support and funding from Susquehanna’s Student Government Association and the state Department of Environmental Protection’s Driving PA Forward program, 该大学安装了4个可公开访问的Level 2 electric vehicle chargers on campus.
这是宾夕法尼亚州第一个类似的项目, 教师和学生建造河狸水坝，以维护河流 环境教育与研究中心. The manmade beaver dams are used to slow water flow and trap sediment with the hope that they will help to prevent erosion and the flow of sediment downstream to the Susquehanna River and ultimately the Chesapeake Bay.
可持续发展之路并没有止步于苏大的大门. Gannon Keller ’15 and Krystal Duke ’14 Keller founded the Kinder Cloth Diaper Company 他们迎来了第一个孩子. 这对夫妇不同的学术背景，克里斯托加入 graphic design and Gannon’s in business ——在生态友好型企业中优势互补.
研究横跨科学和人文学科
As a geophysicist, Ahmed Lachhab, associate professor of earth and environmental sciences, never imagined he would apply the same tools he uses to study lakes in Pennsylvania to help archeologists in Morocco. But that is exactly what he did. Lachhab used ground-penetrating radar to help archeologists preserve ancient Roman mosaics at Volubilis, 摩洛哥西北部的联合国教科文组织世界遗产.
Back in Pennsylvania, Jennifer Elick, associate professor of earth and environmental sciences研究人员开始研究鱼塘是如何影响鱼类数量的 formation of islands within the Susquehanna River. 埃利克把她的注意力集中在海滩港湾附近的一个无名小岛上, Pennsylvania, in Luzerne County, determining that a large percentage of the soil composition — anthracite coal and waste produced from coal-burning — was likely swept downstream and deposited within the walls of a fish weir as a result of 1972’s Hurricane Agnes flood.
Read on to learn more about how our students contributed to other research from the past year:
- 描述了一种新的估算方法 thermal emissions of exoplanets或太阳系外的行星 Jennifer Carter, assistant professor of physics.
- Explored the criminal infrastructure that emerged with the advent of cars — this time looking into the role jitney busses 他们的司机玩朗姆酒，从 Ed Slavishak, professor of history.
- 采用校园银杏叶等天然成分, such as rosemary and eucalyptus, 试图在SU中产生活性氧 laser lab, from Swarna Basu, chair and professor of chemistry.
- Studied art activist practices 在费城和纽约，从 Isabella Galliera, assistant professor of art history.
开设商业、社会和自然科学新课程
2023 - 2024学年有了新的专业 criminal justice, entrepreneurship & corporate innovation, and real estate, as well as a 工商管理硕士 与塞浦路斯尼科西亚大学(University of Nicosia)合作的项目 Doctor of Pharmacy 迪肯大学和天普大学的合作项目. Read about them all here.
田径联合会，教练荣誉
Head Coach Tom Perkovich was honored by the Maxwell Football Club as the winner of the club’s 25th Andy Talley Regional Coach of the Year Award at the 86th National Awards Gala. Perkovich was recognized alongside a distinguished list of honorees from Pennsylvania State University, the Universities of Alabama, 北卡罗来纳州和南加州, and the Philadelphia Eagles.
Spreading the word
2023年，该大学还启动了一个项目 refreshed brand 它的主要信息是“不容忽视”.” The website and social media describe Susquehanna as “the future-ready institution for today.” These messages are part of an ongoing effort to rebrand Susquehanna and spotlight its investments in each graduate to help them realize their unique potential and lead a successful and meaningful life.