Muhlenberg College

Have you ever wondered how your brain and mouth go from thinking about a word to articulating it? Alexandra Frazer, assistant professor of psychology, put this question to the test with the help of Muhlenberg student researcher Kat Hodges '20, a biochemistry major and public health minor. Students Alyce Huot '20, Hazem Abdelaal '20, Jessica Oxer '21 and Marwan Rajha '21 also assisted with the research.

Congratulations to the Class of 2020! Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Muhlenberg College 2020 Baccalaureate and Commencement ceremonies have been rescheduled for October 17 and 18. However, to commemorate this important milestone, the College hosted a Virtual Senior Week which culminated May 17 with the Conferral of Degrees by President Kathleen Harring. During the presentation, 518 students were awarded their undergraduate degrees.

Tri Alpha honors outstanding students who are the first in their families to attend college.

The virtual ceremony celebrated academic achievement, community engagement, original research and commitment to the College.

Davis is among the scholarship recipients honored for outstanding academic performance in physics.

Even while away from his students, Ian Wolfe Adler '20 is still creating lesson plans.

A trip to Disney should be fun. But for a group of Muhlenberg students in January, the trip also helped explore the many ways that Walt Disney World staff create a culture of leadership.

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.

Muhlenberg teams and athletes set or tied many school records during the 2019-20 year, and they also achieved many career milestones.

Jordan Cimring '20 shares how the Muhlenberg Career Center provided him with guidance that took him from his first internship application to the dream job he'll start after graduating in May.

A Dana Scholar and member of the Muhlenberg volleyball team, Shear studied in Florence, Italy, earlier this semester.

A new integrative learning partnership between the Department of Religion Studies and the Office of Housing & Residence Life helps resident advisors develop religious literacy.

Allison Kaye '21, a political science major with a minor in women's & gender studies, interned earlier this spring in the office of U.S. Senator for New Jersey Cory Booker via the Lutheran College Washington Semester (LCWS) program.

Muhlenberg students presented global education research at the annual LVAIC Global Student Conference.

Justin Axelrod '20 spent four days all over Jersey City, New Jersey, during his externship with real-estate developer Paul Silverman '78.

Sydney Holliday '23 drew on her improv background for an externship with theatre educator Robert Wagner '07.

Rhiannon Harwi '20 completed an externship at the Allentown campus of human resources company ADP with Deb Clay-Alston '98 P'14.

From an early age, Meredith Krewson '20 knew that she wanted a career in medicine and healthcare for small children.

Students selected for the fellowship are campus leaders who demonstrate a commitment to finding solutions for challenges facing communities locally, nationally and internationally.

The following people recently were initiated into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation's oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines.

Three students shared their research at the Joint Mathematics Meeting's Student Research Poster Session in Denver, Colorado, this January.

Forty Muhlenberg College student-athletes were named to the Centennial Conference Academic Honor Roll for the winter 2019-20 season.

The Fulbright Scholars Program supports extended research or study abroad opportunities for college graduates.

Ten students were cast members in the February 20-23 production, directed by Emmy Award nominee Jeffrey Page.

Congratulations to the following Muhlenberg College and the Muhlenberg College School of Continuing Studies students! They earned a GPA of 3.5 or higher for the term and were named to the Dean's List for Fall 2019.

On February 6-8, Master Choreographers featured new dance works by critically acclaimed guest artists and faculty, performed by over 60 talented students.

In November, over 130 local high school students experienced the legislative process firsthand through the Senator for a Day program at Muhlenberg College. Muhlenberg student volunteers helped coach the younger students through the committee meetings.

For 26 years, Muhlenberg College has hosted "Youth and Prejudice: Reducing Hatred; Lessons of the Holocaust" for middle school students in the Lehigh Valley, a program designed to connect the atrocities of Nazi Germany to modern-day actions of hate.

Muhlenberg College encourages students in every major to study abroad while earning college credit towards their degree. In fact, 56 percent of Muhlenberg graduates from the Class of 2019 studied abroad at least once during their college career, and between 250 and 300 students study abroad each year. The College supports discipline-specific study abroad opportunities as well as offering over 100 approved programs in Europe, Australia, Asia, Latin America and Africa.

The protest, organized by student group Muhlenberg Strike Circle, called for pressure on elected officials to support climate change legislation.