Recent Stories

• Susquehanna Memorializes Alumni Lost on 9-11

  Susquehanna recognized the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks with a service that remembered two university alumni who died that day.

• Susquehanna Recognized for Commitment to Student Wellness, Safety and Inclusion Efforts

  Susquehanna has been named a recipient of the Campus Prevention Network Seal of Prevention, which is awarded to institutions of higher education that have demonstrated leadership in digital prevention programming focused on student safety, well-being and inclusion.

• Former Republican U.S. Rep. J.C. Watts Jr. to Deliver Lecture

  J.C. Watts Jr., former Republican congressman, minister, retired professional football player and current chairman of the Black News Network, will present Susquehanna University’s Alice Pope Shade lecture Leading by Faith – From the Sidelines to the Aisles of Congress at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 29, in the Degenstein Center Theater.

• U.S. News and World Report Recognizes SU for Social Mobility

  Susquehanna University ranks No. 117 out of the 223 universities included on U.S. News and World Report’s 2022 National Liberal Arts Colleges list. SU continues to excel in U.S. News’ social mobility category, ranking No. 80 out of 216 universities.

• SU, Penn Highlands Create Pathway to Bachelor’s

  Susquehanna and Pennsylvania Highlands Community College have partnered to make it easier for western Pennsylvania students to continue their education and earn a bachelor’s degree.

• Entrepreneurship Honor Society Earns National Award

  Sigma Nu Tau, Susquehanna’s honor society dedicated to entrepreneurship, has been nationally recognized for its programming and academic success of its student members.

• Princeton Review Names Susquehanna Among Nation’s Best

  Susquehanna is recognized by The Princeton Review as one of the nation’s best institutions for undergraduates, with surveyed students offering specific praise for the university’s creative writing, music and science programs, and its unique cross-cultural immersion requirement.

• Susquehanna Nationally Ranked for Social Mobility

  Government and politics publication Washington Monthly ranks Susquehanna University among the top 30% of liberal arts universities nationwide for social mobility, or the ability to improve one’s socioeconomic status.

• Susquehanna Welcomes Class of 2025

  Susquehanna opened its 164^th academic year with an in-person convocation that welcomed 580 new students to campus. The Class of 2025 represents just 10.3% of a very strong applicant pool, with a median grade point average of 3.66.

• Ozlanski Wins National Accounting Teaching Award

  Michael Ozlanski ’05, chair and associate professor of accounting, was awarded the 2021 George Krull/Grant Thornton Teaching Innovation Award from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

• Susquehanna Leads National Collegiate Rugby Scholastic All Americans

  National Collegiate Rugby named 107 student athletes as 2020-21 Scholastic All Americans, including 14 Susquehanna students – the most of any university men’s program.

• Susquehanna Restructures Academic Schools

  Susquehanna has restructured the School of Arts and Sciences into three schools — School of the Arts, School of Humanities and School of Natural and Social Sciences — and they are overseen by two deans.

• Gallery Exhibition Features Painting, Photography, Video

  The Lore Degenstein Gallery at Susquehanna University will launch its first exhibition of the 2021-22 academic year, Commonplace Attachments: Artistic Practice During the Covid-19 Pandemic, with an opening reception on Sept. 4 at 7 p.m. The exhibition runs through Oct. 24. All gallery events are free and open to the public.

• FRI Collaborations Lead to Internships for Students

  Leveraging the relationships of Susquehanna’s Freshwater Research Institute and its collaborators, students majoring in the natural sciences have been placed in summer internships up and down the Susquehanna River.

• Olu Onafowora Named Warehime Chair

  Olu Onafowora, professor of economics, has been named the Warehime Chair in the Sigmund Weis School of Business at Susquehanna. The Warehime Chair is awarded to a faculty member with excellent record or research productivity with prospects for continued scholarly excellence.

• Accounting Major ‘Picks’ the Right Internship

  Grace Peters ’23 interned remotely for Northern Ireland’s Lowden Guitars, which produces handmade acoustic guitars, most notably for English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran.

• Senior Publishes Research with Internship Mentor

  Ethan Fix ’22 has returned to the lab of Wayne Carver, professor of cell biology and anatomy at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, for another summer internship.

• Internship Helps Senior Find Postgraduate Direction

  Physics major Jocelyn McMahon spent her summer working as a research intern for the United States Department of Energy.

• Senior Steps Up in Olympic-sized Internship with NBC Universal

  How did you spend your summer vacation? Samantha Balsamo ’22 interned with NBC Universal.

• Chemistry Research Builds Confidence, Leads to Self-Assurance

  While many of her classmates returned home for the summer, Olivia Basile ’24 remained on campus to conduct research with the Department of Chemistry.

• Susquehanna Names Frances Magee Vice President for Student Life

  Susquehanna has named Frances “Francy” Magee vice president for student life and dean of students following a nationwide search. She will join Susquehanna on Aug. 23.

• Grad Earns Second Critical Language Scholarship

  Susquehanna’s Hannah Kelly-Quigley ’20 has been awarded a U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship to study Chinese during the summer of 2021.

• Emergency Funds Distributed to Students

  This week Susquehanna distributed one-time, emergency student aid grants through the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. Over the last year, the university also refunded approximately $8.5 million to its students for unused, prorated housing and meal plans.

• Music Made It Happen

  Despite the challenges of masks, face shields, social distancing, and having students both on-campus and studying remotely, faculty and students at Susquehanna rallied, ultimately emerging closer, stronger and still making music.

• University Choir Selected to Perform in Boston

  Susquehanna’s University Choir has been selected to perform at the American Choral Directors Association Eastern Region Conference to be held in Boston in February 2022.

• Susquehanna Included in Fiske Guide

  Susquehanna has been recognized as an innovator and national leader in promoting socioeconomic diversity in the Fiske Guide to Colleges, a longstanding guide to the top 300-plus universities throughout the U.S., Canada, Great Britain and Ireland.

• Student-Led Organ Donation Campaign Places First in State

  Susquehanna’s chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America placed first in the state for its organ donation awareness campaign.

• Biology Grad Reflects on Research, Conference Presentation Experience

  Doing undergraduate research with faculty mentors led the way for Sam Silknetter ’14 to get experience presenting at academic conferences.

• Economics Dept. Recognized by U.S. Federal Reserve

  Susquehanna’s Department of Economics has been ranked in the top 25% nationwide by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, one of 12 regional Reserve Banks that make up the United States’ Federal Reserve System.

• Susquehanna Announces Vaccine Requirement for Fall 2021

  Susquehanna announced today that a Covid-19 vaccination will be required for all students to be enrolled for classes for the fall 2021 semester.