York College of Pennsylvania

A presentation by Maddie Sweitzer, "The Challenging of Gender Norms in Pride & Prejudice," has been accepted for presentation at National Council on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) 2023 in April on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.

More than 1400 students were named to the Fall 2022 Dean's List at York College of Pennsylvania. To be eligible for this honor, a student must be registered for at least 12 academic credit hours and earn a semester GPA of 3.50 or higher.

Four York College students will be inducted into the Commission on Sport Management Accreditation (COSMA) Chi Sigma Mu Honor Society at the organization's 2023 conference in February in Tampa, Fla.

A York College student was chosen to receive a scholarship from Rock Lititz.

A York College student has been chosen to present her research during the Middle States Commission on Higher Education's annual Student Poster Session.

Three York College students are producing Season 12 of the Rough Draft podcast as part of the Publications Management course.

A York College Civil Engineering major was selected to receive the Central PA Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers Student Award, which comes with $2000.

Several York College students are playing starring roles in the annual production of A Christmas Carol.

A York College biology major presented research she conducted with a faculty mentor at the National Diversity in STEM Conference in Puerto Rico.

Four York College students presented posters on their research, conducted alongside faculty, at the National Diversity in STEM Conference in Puerto Rico.

Three York College Nursing students earned scholarships from the Nursing Foundation of Pennsylvania.

Nathan Leakway published an op-ed in the York Dispatch as part of a course.

Nearly 750 first-year and transfer students arrived at York College of Pennsylvania for the opening of the Fall 2022 semester.

Two students enrolled in a health-related academic program had the opportunity to serve as the first research interns in a collaborative program between York College and WellSpan Research.

Reginald Sullivan was selected as a 2022 Pennsylvania Environmental Resource Consortium (PERC) Campus Sustainability Champion. The PERC Sustainability Champions program recognizes students, faculty, administrators, and staff of Pennsylvania colleges and universities who have made meaningful contributions toward environmental sustainability on their campus, in their community, or in society at large.

The Pennsylvania Environmental Resource Consortium Campus Sustainability Champions program recognizes students, faculty, administrators, and staff of Pennsylvania colleges and universities who have made meaningful contributions toward environmental sustainability on their campus, in their community, or in society at large.

More than 1400 students were named to the Spring 2022 Dean's List at York College of Pennsylvania. To be eligible for this honor, a student must be registered for at least 12 academic credit hours and earn a semester GPA of 3.50 or higher.

York College's Class of 2022 was the first to enjoy the typical outdoor commencement exercise since the Class of 2019. Nearly 700 graduates - earning associate, bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees - were recognized during the May 14 ceremony.

Kaitlin Dannenberg of Mechanicsburg, a sophomore environmental horticulture major at York College, is the most recent recipient of funding from the College's Weinstock Student Venture Investment Fund. Dannenberg's company, KRAM, is developing innovative new systems for home hydroponics that allow individuals to legally grow medical marijuana, in their own home, at a significant savings compared to other sources. The Weinstock Student Venture Investment Fund, a program of York College's J.D. Brown Center for Entrepreneurship, is specifically designed to help York College students take their business from idea to implementation through funding, education, mentorship, and strategic networking opportunities. Norm Weinstock, 1958 York College graduate and founder of the Weinstock Student Venture Investment Fund, believes Dannenberg has expertise and drive to make her business a success.

York College's Class of 2022 was the first to enjoy the typical outdoor commencement exercise since the Class of 2019. Nearly 700 graduates - earning associate, bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees - were recognized during the May 14 ceremony.

A York College student was one of ten college students chosen as the recipient of the North American Rail Shippers scholarship.

More than 70 York College students were presented with awards during the annual Student Recognition ceremony.

York College's Alex Suarez, a sophomore Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering major from Frederick, Md., earned a third-place finish in the 2022 Collegiate Drone Racing Championship (CDRC) at the University of North Dakota. Eleven colleges and universities competed, including the University of North Dakota, Emory-Riddle Aeronautical University, Virginia Tech, Northeastern University, the U.S. Air Force Academy, Purdue University, and the University of Maryland. His participation was sponsored by the Engineering departments at York College. "It felt really cool representing York, all these big schools and here I am racing at the same level," said Suarez. "For all other sports our schools would never compete. Drone racing is still new enough in which schools are not picking pilots, pilots are picking the school." The race was scored on an individual level and a school/team level. The minimum number of pilots per team is two, according to Suarez. "However, as an individual, I got York into 8th out of 11 teams. There were only two individual teams - York and Purdue. If York were to get more drone racing pilots, we would be even more competitive on the team level." Ever since his first Blue Angels airshow, Suarez has been hooked on aviation. He began with flying model planes in 2012, then moved on to quadcopters because "I could keep it in the air and control it much better than a model plane." Quadcopters are drones that fly using four rotors. Suarez flew quadcopters - he even did a science fair project with them - and later learned to build them. In 2016, he discovered there were races for quadcopters, so he did some research and built his first race quad a year later. "And I've been building and racing them since," he said. "In 2020, I was ranked 227th in the world; last year 2021, I was ranked 178th in the world; and now I finished 3rd at the Collegiate championships." Suarez's hobby has gained him notoriety, but it has also put into practice the engineering skills he has learned at York College. One of the main and most important components of a racing drone is the frame, according to Suarez. "I raced with a custom frame, which was designed with SolidWorks (3D CAD software) skills I learned from York," he said. "I was also able to design it with a better understanding of how the forces from crashes would interact with the frame and how durable it would be. Some of the components on the frame are new and never seen before in drone racing. I remember showing my frame to some of the other competitors, and some of them were doubtful of the changes I made, but at the end several of them asked me when I'm going to start selling it after they saw how it held up in the race."

Clara Weber of Reading, a sophomore Mass Communications major at York College of Pennsylvania, was awarded the the $1,000 Pennsylvania Public Relations Society's Communications Scholarship. The recipient must be a full-time communications and/or public relations student and an upcoming junior or senior, a legal Pensylvania resident and full-time student, involved in extracurricular activities, and a strong writer with at least a 2.75 GPA.

Fine Arts and Graphic Design majors at York College were recognized for their work during the Annual Juried Student Exhibition.

York College of Pennsylvania Nursing Student Anna Crawford '22 coauthored an article with faculty member, Professor of Nursing Lisa Ruth-Sahd '83, on sarcoidosis for the journal Nursing.

York College of Pennsylvania Literary and Textual Studies Senior and Presidential Research Fellow Sophia "Sophie" Barnes had her abstract, "The Fragility of the American Dream," accepted for presentation at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) 2022 @Home in April, 2022.

York College of Pennsylvania Sport Management junior Kayla Carr was awarded a $750 scholarship from the Commission on Sport Management Accreditation (COSMA) that went toward college tuition. COSMA also covered her airfare, hotel accommodation, and registration for the 2022 conference in Houston, Texas, in February.

York College of Pennsylvania Biology/Pre-Med track senior Rachael Huebler has participated in the Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) program since her first year at the College. As part of National Mentoring Month in January, The BBBS program named her as a Big Sister of the Year for 2021.

Over 1400 York College of Pennsylvania Students Were Named to the Dean's List for the Fall 2021 Semester