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Last spring's semester penultimate dance concert, Spring Studio Sessions, ran from May 1-3. It featured original dance routines by eight student choreographers with over thirty-five dancers and a new piece by Sanchel Brown called "The REBEARTH."

Andrew Gaines '24 asked Google's AI chatbot to build portfolios and examined the results, an experience that helped him stand out as a candidate for an internship at Englebert Financial Advisers.

Muhlenberg welcomes the newest members of our community, including first year students, new transfer students and new School of Continuing Studies and Graduate students, for the 2024-2025 academic year.

The College's Commencement honored graduates in a ceremony held in downtown Allentown's PPL Center on May 19.

Students with a term GPA of 3.5 or higher for the semester were recognized for this academic achievement.

Student-athlete Bri Astbury '24 took part in the Major League Baseball Take the Field program, which allowed her to make industry connections and see how her Muhlenberg education is preparing her to pursue a career in sports analytics.

In late May and early June, students who took the Muhlenberg Integrative Learning Abroad (MILA) course Climate Change & Sustainable Development in Bangladesh traveled to the country to see some of what they'd learned in action. The trip was led by the course's instructors, Professors of Political Science Jack Gambino and Mohsin Hashim. Here, Harli Strauss-Cohn '24, an international studies and sustainability studies double major, recounts her experience with the course and the trip.

First-year student Evan Mendez was named the first Centennial Conference wrestling athlete of the week of the 2023-24 season.

Eighty-two Muhlenberg College student-athletes were named to the Centennial Conference Academic Honor Roll for the fall 2023 season.

Lily Press '24 and Riley Wexler '24 took part in the National Science Foundation's competitive Research Experiences for Undergraduates program.

Rising senior tennis player Roy Hsu spent the summer in New Mexico for a highly competitive research internship in astronomy.

Muhlenberg inducted the student-athletes into Chi Alpha Sigma earlier this month.

Head in the Game, which launched at Muhlenberg in 2021, recognizes that student-athletes from all sports face challenges with things like time management, perfectionism and performance anxiety and provides a space for bonding, venting and learning how to cope.

Esther Schlossberg '20, a project coordinator in a Yale lab focused on opioid-use disorder and infectious diseases, landed that job after shadowing there as a student. Now, she's hosting current students through the Career Center's Externship Program.

Two Mule basketball players were honored for academic excellence.

This winter break, 49 students completed externships through the Career Center. These typically one- to five-day personalized experiences, most with alumni hosts, are designed to allow students of all class years to explore different postgraduate opportunities.

Students in Muhlenberg's Education Society sprang into action to help students at a nearby elementary school.

Danielle Costanzo (Muhlenberg College, 2019) is a 2022-23 recipient of an Omicron Delta Kappa Sally K. Albrecht Arts Scholarship. Costanzo graduated magna cum laude from Muhlenberg College. She earned a Bachelor of Arts with a double major in dance science and theatre. During her time at Muhlenberg, she was a course tutor for anatomy and kinesiology, biology of movement, and biological and abnormal psychology classes. In addition, Costanzo served as a panelist for new admission recruits and was very active as a performer in multiple dance and theatre productions. She was secretary for the Muhlenberg College Circle and helped organize and promote circle service projects and create awareness of ODK for prospective members. Costanzo is also a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Costanzo has been involved in community activities, including a term serving as the Model World Health Organization president and as a volunteer for the Art Therapy program for her local hospital and the National Alliance for Mental Illness. She is pursuing a Master of Arts at Rider University in the clinical mental health counseling program, with a concentration in dance and movement therapy. Costanzo hopes to help others through creativity and the healing method of movement.

A new report finds college-student voting increased sharply nationwide in 2020. BergVotes leaders say lots of outreach plus a slew of important issues helped drive high Muhlenberg turnout.

How do you do on-campus philanthropy work when no one is on campus? Go virtual.

Ryan Hebert '22, a computer science major, and Jonah Silverman '22, a mathematics major and statistics minor, were the second Muhlenberg team to win since 2019.

Muhlenberg men's lacrosse midfielder Jake Suesserman is participating in Israel Lacrosse's Masa Gap Year program.

The Shankweiler Scholars program is the newest honors program at Muhlenberg, designed for students with an interest in a future career as a physician and who also have other broad intellectual interests in the liberal arts, including the humanities and social sciences.