From Staff Reports
LOCK HAVEN The president of Bloomsburg University who has a controversial past has been named interim president of Lock Haven University as the two school prepare for an integration with Mansfield University.
Dr. Bashar Hanna began his job at LHU today.
He succeeds Dr. Robert Pignatello, who is joining the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education’s (PASSHE) Office of the Chancellor as senior advisor for integration strategy, focusing on workforce development and short-term credentials.
“I am humbled to have been selected as interim president of Lock Haven University by the State System’s Board of Governors,” Hanna said. “They have put their faith in me to lead Lock Haven into the future. With student success as our guiding light, we will continue to fulfill the university’s mission. Now more than ever, our region’s students need access to an exemplary, affordable education. The work we are doing together to support the northeast integratio
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The final two webinars in the annual Horse Management Seminar from Rutgers University in New Jersey are on the next two Mondays of the month.
The seminar, normally a one-day in-person conference, went virtual because of Covid-19. The program was instead divided into three free weekly webinars beginning the first Monday in February.
Each virtual seminar evening features two speakers that Rutgers has considered its “Best of the Best” over the years of having face-to-face Horse Management Seminars, and are topics that are most requested in previous post-program evaluations. Each evening will focus on one topic area and will end with an ‘Ask the Expert Live’ panel with Dr Carey Williams and the evening’s speakers.
Itâs true that the COVID-19 pandemic has caused most of us to pivot in new and unexpected ways since it began 11 months ago. For college students, the virtual learning experience has been upended even more drastically, especially for hands-on majors in the agricultural field.
John Torbert, a junior agribusiness major specializing in crop production at Delaware Valley University in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, decided early on in the pandemic to embrace the ânew normalâ of virtual learning and flexible class schedules by expanding his work at Growmark FS, where he turned an internship into a part-time job.
According to Growmark FSâs website, the company is a subsidiary of the third-largest agricultural retailer (Growmark Inc.) in the U.S. and provides retail sales of seed, plant nutrients, lime, crop protection materials, custom application, turf, propane and precision agriculture to customers in the Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S.
Jan 21, 2021
A trio of Pennsylvania College of Technology students have each received $5,000 scholarships from the Pennsylvania Landscape and Nursery Association Foundation, which annually recognizes outstanding achievement at institutions offering degrees in horticulture, nursery production, landscape contracting or related fields.
Awarded three of the foundation’s four 2020-21 scholarships were Nick Bianchi, of Archbald, landscape/horticulture technology: landscape emphasis; Rebecca Cornish, of Lewisburg, dual-majoring in business administration: management concentration and landscape/horticulture technology: plant production emphasis; and Erick V. Kennedy, of Williamsport, landscape/horticulture technology: plant production emphasis.
“These three students are very deserving of the recognition through these scholarships,” said Carl J. Bower, horticulture instructor at the college’s Schneebeli Earth Science Center. “I know they are thankful, as am I, for the support of
Dr. Bashar Hanna
Website: http://www.drbasharhanna.com/
Dr. Bashar Hanna has served as the 19th President of Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania since 2017. Dr. Hanna’s background in and passion for education drives him to continue teaching and helping institutions of higher learning reach their greatest potential. Dr. Bashar Hanna has a love of teaching and a belief that university administrators should never stop teaching. After finishing his own college education at Philadelphia’s Temple University with a Bachelor of Arts in biology, a Master’s degree in developmental biology, and a Ph.D. in developmental neurobiology, Dr. Hanna went on to serve at Temple’s College of Science and Technology, DeVry University, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, and Delaware Valley University. These positions and opportunities have allowed Dr. Bashar Hanna to do great things for the world of education and for minority students and graduates.