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Lock Haven KDR alumni raise $7,400 for scholarship

LOCK HAVEN — Fifty-six alumni-brothers of the Kappa Delta Rho (KDR) fraternity returned to Commonwealth University-Lock Haven from June 2-3, raising $7,400 for the Kappa Delta Rho Alpha-Alpha Scholarship during their KDR Alumni Weekend. The event, attended by recent 2023 KDR alumni to the Class of 1969, serves as a fun-filled annual reunion for the group. Along with a full slate of on- and off-campus festivities, the brothers also use the gathering to hold various fundraising activities supporting the KDR scholarship. Since 2021, the scholarship has been awarded to Lock Haven KDR ...

Clinical mental health counseling student, faculty member create ‘Culture Collective’ to promote cultural awareness

LOCK HAVEN — In the Fall of 2022, Commonwealth University-Lock Haven clinical mental health counseling (CMHC) graduate student, Katie Burns, was a student in a multicultural counseling class. When the semester ended, Burns found herself so immersed in the course content, she needed a way to continue her new-found passion for the topic. During the class, micro and macro levels of power, privilege and oppression were examined and affirming counseling considerations for diverse populations. “I want to keep learning and talking and growing in this,” Burns said to her professor, Dr. ...

Local fourth grade class speaks to officials at NASA

A fourth grade class out of Loyalsock Valley Elementary School, in the Montoursville School District, got the “amazing opportunity” to speak with two NASA officials, according to the class’ teacher, Hannah McCracken. After a unit on space in the students’ science class, McCracken, ...

Wertz Scholar finds career, community at Lycoming College

Sylphrena Kleinsasser ’23 of Muncy Valley, Pa., entered Lycoming College during the fall of 2019 with a major in chemistry. As a Wertz Scholar, she was awarded a stipend of up to $5,000 to help support the costs of global study or completion of an internship or research experience — ...

Penn College student redesigns surgical device

Maxine Zglinicki needed to complete a senior project. Dr. John H. Bailey wanted a surgical tool redesigned. The recent Pennsylvania College of Technology graduate and local orthopedic surgeon teamed up to meet both objectives. Zglinicki, of Norristown, devoted a chunk of her final semester at the college to redesigning a tensioning device used with a robot for knee replacement surgery. The senior project was required for Zglinicki to graduate in May with a bachelor’s degree in industrial design. “The happiest thing for me about the project is the potential it has to help Dr. ...

Lock Haven faculty member invited to participate in video game panel

LOCK HAVEN — A Commonwealth University-Lock Haven faculty member will participate in a panel discussion for the Japan Foundation of New York related to the Legend of Zelda video game. The virtual event, “The Legend of Zelda: Exploring the Legacy of Breath of the Wild,” will be held on Friday, June 30, at 8 p.m. on YouTube. Dr. Stephen Kuniak, a clinical mental health counseling faculty member at Lock Haven, will be one of five professors joining the panel discussion who research video games. “I am supportive of gamers rather than seeing it as a problem,” Kuniak said. “I ...