University of Scranton News Archives

When Professor Jamie Trnka visited the Checkpoint Charlie Museum in Berlin, she saw some of the contraptions people devised in desperate attempts to escape from Communist East Germany.

Volunteers are needed for a study on body chemistry, measuring the effect of consuming one medium potato at lunch and dinner.

A Liberty High School student is one of 96 regional finalists in a math, science and technology competition.

Jan and Carl Cwikla, owners of Cwikla's Bakery in Avoca recently baked cupcakes to recognize National Pro-Life Cupcake Day observed locally at the University of Scranton and Scranton Preparatory School.

Should executives go to prison for collecting too many millions from the companies they run? Angry readers have told me they should.

Attorney P. Timothy Kelly, of Clarks Summit, has been selected for inclusion in Pennsylvania's Super Lawyers magazine for 2009.

University of Scranton Royal Ambassadors gather in the Estate to help prepare for the Jesuit school's Open Houses on Sunday, Oct.

Megan Kathleen Olsen and Corey Wade Mitchell were married Aug. 28 at Saint Vincent de Paul Church in Vestal.

King's cited in "A Survey of Best College and University Civic Partnerships." Like any college town, Wilkes-Barre has the potential to experience "town and gown" issues.

Lackawanna College president Raymond Angeli announced the dedication ceremony of the Francis X. Healey Academic Center will be held Nov.

The University has appointed 31 new full-time faculty members for the 2009-2010 academic year.

The Kindle 2 and global models, along with the DX, all have manuals readable in PDF on your desktop or laptop monitor.

Nobel Prize-winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann, Ph.D., who received the prestigious award in 1969 for his work on the theory of elementary particles, will deliver the annual Harry Mullin, M.D., Lecture at the University of Scranton on Thursday at 8 p.m. in the Houlihan-McLean Center.

The Pike County Economic Development Authority, along its co-sponsors, the Pike County Business Development Corp., Wayne County Economic Development Corp., University of Scranton Small Business Development Center and the Dime Bank, will co-host a seminar from 1 to 3 p.m. Wednesday on economic development financing programs for businesses.

Past recipients of the F. Lammot Belin Scholarship will conduct a variety of classes and performances at the Waverly Community House on Saturday, Oct.

About 200 University of Scranton students are expected to turn out on the streets of the Hill Section this afternoon as part of the school's 2009 Street Sweep program.

The University of Scranton Small Business Development Center's Agribusiness and Food Specialty Program was among 63 centers in the United States, and the only in Pennsylvania, to receive the national Association of Small Business Development Centers' 2009 State Star Award.

Leo and Ann Moskovitz will receive the 2009 Andrew J. McGowan Cornerstone Award at an award dinner on Friday, Oct.