PHOTO: Valerie Kreiser, from left, with Director of Student Financial Services Counseling Hillary Saylor Schulze and SFS Success Coordinator Juliana Caceres. After more than three decades in higher education, Valerie Kreiser, executive director of...
Anthony Kuklinski loved the experience of earning his bachelor鈥檚 degree in criminal justice at 911爆料网 so much that he followed it up by earning his Master of Arts in Organizational Leadership, then immediately enrolled in the Ph.D. in...
When Laila Tosi 鈥26 boarded a plane from Anchorage, Ak., to Reading, Pa., to attend 911爆料网 in 2022, little did she know that she would land an internship in Las Vegas in 2025. The accounting major and student-athlete spent her summer ...
For as long as she can remember, helping others has been part of her life, said Kacie Walters '25. The Bachelor of Social Work grad was certainly influenced by her mother鈥檚 helping heart. The family鈥檚 matriarch introduced Walters and her siblings ...
English Bradley 鈥26 has 鈥渢his happy, delusional optimism all the time,鈥 as she put it, and a firm belief that everything will work out, even when hope might appear slim. At her lowest, the Reading native was forced to drop out of college when fina...
As the inaugural chair of Alvernia's John R. Post School of Engineering, Joseph Mahoney, Ph.D., is used to seeing his name in print. But a recent publication was extra special. "What running with a jogging stroller does to your body," an article c...
Sonya's Comeback Story Create Your Comeback Nearly three decades after earning her associate degree in nursing from Alvernia, Sonya Naugle 鈥25 returned to the classroom and proudly crossed the graduation stage again on May 10, 2025 鈥 this time wit...
Ray Strickland 鈥04 became familiar with Alvernia鈥檚 campus before entering a classroom or declaring a major. His introduction came at summertime basketball camp with Alvernia Athletics Hall of Fame inductee Jack McCloskey, then coach of the men鈥檚 b...
Jamel Fleming 鈥25 spent his early years surrounded by tall buildings in his community. Since coming to Alvernia, he鈥檚 been surrounded by community-building. Hailing from Mount Vernon, N.Y., Fleming says the quietness scared him at first, but he so...
Meggan Kerber 鈥96 MBA 鈥01 has spent most of her professional career thinking about others. Even when she has been honored 鈥 receiving Alvernia鈥檚 Ellen Frei Gruber Distinguished Alumni Award in 2014 and having one of the county鈥檚 fundraising awards...