Carolina

Sydney Lutz of Schnecksville, a 2015 graduate of Parkland High School, recently completed her freshman year at Coastal Carolina University, S.C.

She is enrolled in the honors program and was named to the dean’s list for both semesters.

Lutz finished the year with a 3.9 grade point average.

Gettysburg

Daniel Shussett of Allentown, a member of the Class of 2019, was placed on the dean’s honor list (3.6 or above) for the fall 2015 semester at Gettysburg College, Gettysburg.

Shussett is majoring in political science and philosophy.

LCCC

The following Lehigh Carbon Community College students were inducted into Phi Theta Kappa, the national honor society for two-year colleges, during a recent ceremony in the college’s Lisa Scheller-Wayne Woodman Community Services Center, Schnecksville.

Allentown: Gabriel Arevalo, Christine Cillo, Alfred Commerato, Mercedes Conway, Dawn Dengler, Lauren Flax, Andrea Griffin, Alexander Haro, Abigail Horning, Meghan Isaacs, Tranell Johnson-Suarez, Jenna Keet, Paul Leiby, Catherine Mancino, Jeff Mandrell, Leonard Martin, Matthew McKenna, Kayla Miller, Heidi Moninghoff, Maria Montalvo, Bao Nguyen, Rosemarie Rogers, Susan Schmidt, Ashley Steinmetz, Iulia Tibrea and Makayla Waterman;

Breinigsville: Jennifer Mohr;

Fogelsville: Allyson Carmona, Jaime Cleary, Alicia Durst, Nadia Latzgo and Elaine Turner;

Germansville: Trisha Bankowski;

New Tripoli: Angela Allred, Erin Crawford and Trisha Nagle;

Schnecksville: Kasey Bartolacci, Claudia Frantz and Madison Marshall; and

Topton: Paula Fegely.

Phi Theta Kappa is the only nationally-acclaimed honor society serving two-year colleges, which offers associate degree programs.

Membership into Phi Theta Kappa is by invitation only.

To be considered, a student must be enrolled in an associate degree program, have completed at least 12 credit hours of coursework, have established a minimum grade point average of 3.5, have established a record of academic excellence as judged by the faculty, and be of good moral character and possess recognized qualities of citizenship.

Lehigh Univ.

Matthew Kleinhenz of Laurys Station was named as one of 12 Martindale Student Associates after a highly competitive application process.

This long-running and prestigious program selects Lehigh’s most talented juniors for induction as new associates to conduct in-depth research on issues pertaining to the economy of a chosen country. (Peru, 2016-17)

The students and their faculty mentors began their studies in February with a series of orientation classes on campus featuring guest speakers, followed by a visit to Washington, D.C., in March or April for briefings at the country’s embassy, and and other relevant organizations such as the U.S. Department of State, the IMF, the World Bank, and the Inter-American Development Bank, etc.

During this time, the students began to define their topics of study.

In May, the group traveled to the country of focus for 10-12 intensive days of meetings, briefings, lectures, interviews, and discussions with leaders from government, business and industry, academic and research institutions, media companies, consulting firms, etc.

The students also made a number of site visits, for example to hospitals, manufacturing plants, universities, important cultural heritage locations.

During their senior year, the students will take the class ECO 362, during which they will give presentations on their research and provide peer reviews.

They also observe a series of deadlines for the submission of writing assignments and meetings with their faculty mentors.

The experience culminates at the end of the students’ senior year with the publication of the 12 research papers as a volume of the journal Perspectives on Business and Economics which is distributed internationally.

In recent years, Martindale Student Associates have researched, visited and published journals focusing on the economies of Iceland, Greece, Colombia, Slovenia and Portugal.

This year’s cohort’s work will be published in October 2017.

Ashland Univ.

Parkland Class of 2011 graduate Ashley Lorah is a member of the Women’s Club Volleyball team at Ashland University, Ashland, Ohio.

Lorah is majoring in exercise science.

She is also a member of the Alpha Gamma Omega Nu Honor Society at Ashland University.

Alpha Gamma Omega Nu seeks to maintain high educational standards and ideals, inspiration of scholarship and achievement in the area of health sciences.

Its purpose is to recognize outstanding contributions to the allied health field, education, and to encourage personal and professional growth. Alpha Gamma Omega Nu seeks to encourage high professional, intellectual, and personal standards, not only in its members, but also in all who come under its influence.

Lorah is an assistant in the office of Career Services at Ashland University.

Career Assistants at Ashland University are student paraprofessionals who work in the Career Services Center located in the Hawkins-Conard Student Center.

They provide assistance to students and alumni in areas such as: career research, resume and cover letter development, web-based career resources, job and internship search strategies, and company/organizational/graduate school research.

She is the daughter of Scott and Beth Lorah.

PENN State

Jonathan Turner of New Tripoli was recently initiated into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines.

Turner is pursuing a degree in chemical engineering at Pennsylvania State University.

He is among approximately 30,000 students, faculty, professional staff and alumni to be initiated into Phi Kappa Phi each year.

Membership is by invitation and requires nomination and approval by a chapter.

Only the top 10 percent of seniors and 7.5 percent of juniors, having at least 72 semester hours, are eligible for membership.

Graduate students in the top 10 percent of the number of candidates for graduate degrees may also qualify, as do faculty, professional staff and alumni who have achieved scholarly distinction.

Wilkes Univ.

Levi Veppert of Kempton was one of 55 students recently inducted into the Keystone Northeast Chapter of the Pennsylvania Society for Professional Engineers at Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre.

The students will receive a Bachelor of Science degrees in electrical engineering, environmental engineering or mechanical engineering at the University’s spring commencement ceremony.

As part of the ceremony, graduating engineers are presented with a stainless steel ring that serves as a symbol of membership.

The order emphasizes ethics in engineering projects and the partnership and teamwork required by engineers in the profession.