The Delta Mu Sigma Honor Society at Penn State DuBois has inducted 16 new members for the spring 2015 semester during the annual Scholarship Luncheon, held at Lifetime Celebrations in DuBois on April 17.
The 76th annual Delta Mu Sigma Honors Convocation at Penn State DuBois recognized outstanding students, faculty, and staff members on Friday night in the campus' Hiller Auditorium. Awards at the Honors Convocation recognize students for a wide range of accomplishments, from academic excellence, to overcoming hardships to succeed. Members of the staff and faculty were celebrated for their commitment to supporting students and for their service to the campus and community.
Penn State DuBois students who traveled to New Orleans on an alternative Spring Break service trip have completed a food drive benefiting the DuBois Ministerial Food Pantry. The drive netted 413 packaged, nonperishable food items, plus $362.
The A.J. and Sigismunda Palumbo Charitable Trust has donated an additional $40,000 to a scholarship fund that will help students attain an education at Penn State DuBois. The fund, The Palumbo Scholarship at Penn State DuBois, was established in 2008 with a $25,000 gift from the Palumbo Charitable Trust. To date, the trust has gifted $270,000 to campus scholarship funds.
Robert Loeb, associate professor of biology and forestry at Penn State DuBois was awarded with the 2015 John Romano Faculty/Staff Diversity Recognition Award at an awards ceremony at University Park recently.
LuAnn Demi, senior instructor of the Occupational Therapy Assistant (OTA) program at Penn State DuBois, has received the University-wide 2015 George W. Atherton Award for Excellence in Teaching. The award is named after Penn State’s seventh president and honors excellence in teaching at the undergraduate level.
A Penn State DuBois alumna who dedicated her career to educating others shared her story as well as advice for new graduates at Penn State DuBois commencement ceremonies May 9.
Honors students in the Penn State DuBois Occupational Therapy Assistant (OTA) program have contributed funds to help a special area boy purchase the bicycle of his dreams. The students donated $408 on Thursday to 16-year-old Brandon Druzak of DuBois, Pennsylvania, and his father, Steven. Brandon lives with cerebral palsy, and requires a specially built bicycle in order to ride. The bike costs around $1,000 total.
A group of Penn State DuBois students majoring in education, Human Development and Family Studies (HDFS), and business, provided hands-on learning opportunities for area elementary school students on Monday. Nearly 100 first grade students from Brockway Elementary School visited the campus to participate in the workshops.
