Muhlenberg College

Roman Craig '27 and Alexa Cinelli '27 researched Muhlenberg College's LGBTQ+ history and created a website to showcase their findings.

Muhlenberg student Sophie Tomov '26 spearheaded a change to the college's bat removal policy in order to make the survival of captured bats more likely.

International student Fuka Aizawa '26 has worked in two different labs at Muhlenberg, followed by a research assistantship in Copenhagen, Denmark.

A choreographic tour-de-force from Muhlenberg's dance faculty choreographers and a guest artist, 'In Motion' ran Feb. 8-10, 2024, featuring student dancers who astonished the community with their tremendous talent.

Maddie Davidson '25 received a Youth Climate Action Fund Grant from the City of Allentown to create a tree science and stewardship project at Allentown School District's Muhlenberg Elementary School. She also presented at a worldwide conference called CityLab that was held on October 14-16 in Mexico City.

A record 83 Muhlenberg College student-athletes have been named to the Centennial Conference Academic Honor Roll for the fall 2024 season. The award honors sophomore or higher student-athletes who carry at least a 3.40 cumulative grade-point average.

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.

After a summer searching the job market, environmental science and sustainability studies double major Anna Shigo '24 began her role as the open space coordinator for Carbon County, Pennsylvania. Now she's working to preserve the environment she grew up in, just north of Muhlenberg.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.