Student Directory
Maura King of East Brady, an early childhood-special education major with a minor in middle level mathematics at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, has been approved to serve as a student trustee on the IUP Council of Trustees by the Pennsylvania State System Board of Governors.
The Board of Governors approved King's appointment at its meeting April 15. Her term will begin when the current student trustee, Abigaelle Vertil, graduates in May. King will serve in the role of student trustee until her graduation. The resolution of her nomination for the position was unanimously approved by the IUP Council of Trustees at its December 2020 meeting.
King, a member of the Cook Honors College at IUP, has a perfect 4.0 grade point average.
She is the daughter of Steve King and Petula King and is a graduate of Karns City High School.
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Central Penn College student Krystal Golden of Chicora was awarded the Donald B. and Dorothy L. Stabler Foundation Endowed Scholarship by the college's Education Foundation during the spring 2021 term. Golden is majoring in corporate communications at the career-focused institution located in Summerdale.
Shelby Slomers of Butler was recently initiated into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation's oldest and most selective all-discipline collegiate honor society. Slomers was initiated at Youngstown State University.Slomers is among about 30,000 students, faculty, professional staff and alumni to be initiated into Phi Kappa Phi each year. Membership is by invitation only and requires nomination and approval by a chapter. Only the top 10 percent of seniors and 7.5 percent of juniors are eligible for membership.
A Butler County student was one of several honored by Ohio University's E.W. Scripps School of Journalism April 10 for reporting, opinion writing, photography and independent media organization skills in the Region 4 Mark of Excellence awards sponsored by the Society of Professional Journalists.Sarah Donaldson, a junior from Cranberry Township, was honored in the General News Photography category for her photo published by The New Political of a Black Lives Matter rally in Athens, Ohio.
Two Seneca Valley High School students earned awards at the 82nd annual Pittsburgh Regional Science and Engineering Fair (PRSEF) at the end of March.Freshman Shivani Umesh won a sponsor award from Young Women in Biology for her investigation on the effect that diet has on coronavirus infections globally by conducting a meta-analysis of accumulated data.
Junior Nick Nedzesky brought home two sponsor awards from the Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh and the Allegheny Medical Society, as well as a scholarship award from Penn State University for his work investigating the role that glycerol has on biofilm formation. He conducted his lengthy experiment in the SV Biotechnology Research Lab, both in person and virtually as the year progressed.Each year, about 1,000 students from more than 100 schools participate in PRSEF. Students spend the 12 months leading up to the Science Fair developing and executing a project by utilizing the scientific method.
