Lebanon Valley College

Lebanon Valley College students Denise Colon Olivencia and Mary Petruschke participated in a panel with Dr. Gabriela McEvoy, Professor of Spanish, at the XXXVI Congreso Internacional de Literatura y Estudios Hispanicos in San Sebastian, Spain. The presentations focused on the integration of language and culture in Spanish teaching.

Lebanon Valley College physics students Jacob Marsh '25 and Michael Harris '26 presented their research at the APS Division of Nuclear Physics Meeting in Boston, Mass., in October.

Dr. Andrew Milosz, Clinical Assistant Professor of Exercise Science, attended the Anatomy Connected Conference in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in March with two of his student researchers. Physical Therapy majors Avery Neipert '22, D'24 and Sarah Ortt '22, D'24 presented a poster, "Graphical Fundamentals of Anatomy: Teaching Key Concepts."

Five Lebanon Valley College speech-language pathology majors presented research at the Pennsylvania Speech-Language-Hearing Association conference in Pittsburgh in April.

Two Lebanon Valley College physics students collaborated with Dr. Daniel Pitonyak, Assistant Professor of Physics, to co-author a published paper in a peer-reviewed journal and present research at a national conference in California.

Dr. Valbona Hoxha and three Lebanon Valley College students attended the 99th Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania Academy of Science. The students presented their research on gold-based therapy: investigating the side effects at the organismal level.

Thirteen Lebanon Valley College students attended and presented research at the Eastern Psychological Association Conference earlier this month in Philadelphia, Pa.

Jacklyn Martin attended the Southeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society (SERMACS 2023) in Durham, N.C., and presented a poster titled "Developing an IL-1 Electrochemical Sensor and Integrating with a Fetal Membrane on-a-chip."

Three Lebanon Valley College students and Dr. Elizabeth S. Sterner, assistant professor of chemistry, presented at the American Chemical Society's (ACS) national conference in New Orleans, La., in March.

Dr. Daniel Pitonyak, co-chair of Chemistry and Physics and Assistant Professor of Physics, attended the 25th International Spin Physics Conference at Duke University in Durham, N.C., with Penn Smith this fall.

Eighteen Lebanon Valley College sociology and criminal justice students who presented their research at the 41st Annual Mid-Atlantic Social Research Conference in April. Students presented final papers from the SOC/CRJ 300: Research Methods for Social Sciences and SOC/CRJ 301: Research Statistics for Social Sciences course sequence.

Four Lebanon Valley College students and Dr. Ann Berger-Knorr, associate professor of education, published a co-authored article, "Multigenre Writing & Keystone to Reading Book Awards," in Pennsylvania Reads: Journal of the Keystone State Literacy Association (Fall 2022).

Lebanon Valley College's Dr. Daniel Pitonyak, assistant professor of physics, Brandon Bauer '24, and Cody Shay '24 attended and presented at the American Physical Society (APS) Group on Hadronic Physics Meeting /APS April Meeting: Quarks to Cosmos from April 12-15 in Minneapolis, Minn.

A Lebanon Valley College student presented a conference paper at the New York State Political Science Association in March.

A Lebanon Valley College student presented research at the annual Mid-Atlantic Ecological Society of America meeting on April 1, in Newark, Del.

Dr. Terrence Alladin, associate professor of criminal justice, Erica Hauger '24, and Chaz Rokosz '25 presented, "Police Officer Communication: The Determinants of Police Culture," at the 60th annual meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences in National Harbord, Md., on March 14.

Dr. Rachel Albert and Melissa Geary '23 presented two posters and a paper symposium on work by the LVC Baby Lab at the Society for Research on Child Development's biennial conference in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Nearly 30 Lebanon Valley College physical therapy students joined their professors to present research at the American Physical Therapy Association Combined Sections Meeting in San Diego, Calif., in February.

Two Lebanon Valley College students currently enrolled in SOC/CRJ 301: Research Statistics for Social Sciences, presented collaborative community-based research at the 2023 Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting in Baltimore in February.

Three Lebanon Valley College biology students attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Science (PAS) Conference in Erie, Pa., to present posters on the molecular mechanisms of alcohol after traumatic brain injury.

Four Lebanon Valley College psychology students presented research at the Eastern Psychological Association Conference in Boston, Mass.

Three Lebanon Valley College political science students presented research at the National Political Science Conference organized by Pi Sigma Alpha in Washington, D.C.

Three Lebanon Valley College students collaborated with music professor Michelle Barraclough to create a presentation on underrepresented composers that was published in an online flute magazine.

Two Lebanon Valley College physics students conducted research with Dr. Daniel Pitonyak resulting in a published paper in Physical Review D, a leading journal in elementary particle physics research.

Nineteen Lebanon Valley College students presented their yearlong scholarly research projects at the Mid-Atlantic Undergraduate Social Research Conference this spring.

Lebanon Valley College physics majors Michel Malda '22 and Ben Gordon '22 attended the APS April Meeting: Quarks to Cosmos in New York City in early April.

Lebanon Valley College student Courtney Metz presented a research poster at the Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting in Boston, Mass. in March.

Two Lebanon Valley College students presented a panel at the XXIX Congreso Internacional de Literatura y Estudios Hispanicos in San Juan, Puerto Rico in March 2022.

Sixteen Lebanon Valley College students contributed to research presented at the 2022 Eastern Psychological Association conference in New York City in March.

Robbie Moul '22, an ACS chemistry and neuroscience double major, was named a Fulbright Finalist and will conduct research in Hungary. He will conduct full-time research with the chemical biology research group at Budapest's Research Centre for Natural Sciences.