April 20, 2012 - Two King’s College seniors have been selected to receive a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship (ETA) and will spend almost a year teaching English in a European country.
Michael Deegan of White Haven and Christine Guarino of Oak Ridge, N.J., will both graduate from King’s in May. Deegan will leave for Bulgaria in August and Guarino will begin her assignment in Germany in September. Both assignments are for 10 months.
April 18, 2012- King’s College alumni and current Cantores Christi Regis choir members will perform a free public concert of classical, contemporary, sacred and secular choral music during the annual spring concert to mark the tenth anniversary of the group’s founding. The concert will be at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 28, in the J. Carroll McCormick Campus Ministry Center, located on Jackson Street.
April 18, 2012 – Food, music, prizes, and educational displays will be part of The Green Initiative at King’s College’s Earth Day celebration, which will be held from 11 a.m.–2 p.m., Tuesday, April 24, in Monarch Court. King’s President Rev. John Ryan, C.S.C., will give the opening remarks at 11 a.m.
April 13, 2012- King’s College sophomores Amanda Gallagher, Emily Snyder and Robert Yanik have been awarded full-tuition scholarships to study in Northern Ireland during the 2012-2013 academic year as part of the Irish-American Scholars Program.
April 12, 2012 - Eight King’s College students were recently inducted to the Alpha Mu of Pennsylvania Chapter of Omicron Delta Epsilon, a national honor society for students in economics.
To be considered for induction, students must have completed at least 18 credit hours in economics and achieve a minimum 3.25 overall grade-point-average (4.0 scale) (GPA) and a 3.00 GPA in their economics-related courses.
April 12, 2012 – King’s College will host the 28th Annual Rev. Paul Farber, C.S.C. Memorial Golf Tournament on Friday, June 8, at Mill Race Golf and Camping Resort in Benton. All proceeds benefit the College’s Farber Memorial Scholarship Fund.
April 11, 2012 – Renowned military ethicist Dr. Nancy Sherman will evaluate the inner lives of soldiers and the moral costs of modern warfare from both a philosophical and psychoanalytic perspective during the Barbara Sabol Memorial Lecture at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 24, in the Sheehy-Farmer Campus Center at King’s College.
April 4, 2012 - Thirty King’s College students were recently inducted to the College’s Tau Pi Chapter of Kappa Delta Pi, an international honor society in education. Selected students must have a minimum 3.4 grade point average (4.0 scale), a commitment to education as a career, and “a professional attitude which assures the member’s steady growth in the field of education.”
April 3, 2012 – Sociologist Dr. Ashley Mears will explore pricing in the world of fashion modeling during a free public lecture at 7 p.m. Monday, April 16, in the Burke Auditorium at King’s College.
The lecture, titled “Pricing Looks, Pricing Gender: The Production of Value in an Aesthetic Economy,” is sponsored by King’s Women's Studies Program. Parking will be available in on-campus lots.
April 3, 2012 - Nine King’s College students and eight mentors recently participated in the second annual “Impact” Forum, an outreach program designed to enrich the lives of the College’s male minority students. The event was held at the Westmoreland Club.
The forum was the culmination of a semester of skill-building workshops for the participating students. The program was made possible by a grant from the McGowan Small Family Fund.
