GOODWIN

COLLEGE

Sikora makes dean's list

Catherine Sikora has earned a spot on the Goodwin College dean's list for the summer 2014 session.

Sikora, a student from Northampton, is one of 744 students to make the dean's list, which requires a minimum 3.5 GPA during a given academic session. The student must also be enrolled in a minimum of six academic credits.

MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY

Students serve at Catholic Worker Farm

Christine Zopf of Northampton volunteered her time as a member of the Misericordia University Honors Program and participated in a day of service at the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker Farm at Harveys Lake, Luzerne County.

The staff and students that volunteered were divided into two shifts to work on the self-sustaining, organic farm that provides produce to people in need. Volunteers harvested beans, split wood and tended to animals.

For their efforts, the farm donated two burlap bags of beans, about 10 pounds of green peppers and 20 pounds of red cabbage for the Catherine McAuley Center in Scranton.

ALVERNIA

UNIVERSITY

Roginsky selected as peer tutor

Katlyn Roginsky of Bath has been named a tutor in the Learning Center of Alvernia University.

Roginsky, majoring in biochemistry, was selected as a organic and general chemistry, biology, statistics, and nursing chemistry tutor for the 2014-15 academic year.

Peer tutors are members of the Learning Center staff who are selected on the basis of academic skill, leadership, character and the ability to communicate well with others. They work on a one-on-one basis or in small group sessions to answer questions on course content and to aid in comprehension of course material. Tutors are expected to have extensive knowledge of the subject they are hired to tutor and the ability to communicate that knowledge to their peers.