Dr. Maria Gallo, president of Delaware Valley University in Doylestown, Pa., has been named the University of WisconsinâRiver Falls 20th chancellor.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents unanimously approved Galloâs appointment, following a recommendation made by a selection committee. Gallo will assume the leadership post on July 15, 2021.
Gallo, a Fulbright Scholar and a fellow of the American Society of Agronomy and the Crop Science Society of America, has been president of Delaware Valley University since July 1, 2016. Under her leadership, the university announced its first endowed professorship, increased student retention and grew its hydroponics and aquaponics education program.
Fulton Bank
As director of Middle Market and Specialized Banking for Fulton Bank’s commercial sales and lending teams across five states, Sue Lonergan oversees the bank’s commercial real estate, healthcare, agricultural, dealer services and middle market commercial teams. Prior to this role, Lonergan was regional president of Fulton Bank’s Southeastern Pennsylvania Division, where she led the commercial sales and lending teams and focused on growth strategies for the market. Under her leadership, Fulton Bank opened its first Philadelphia regional headquarters within the city, its first consumer financial centers in the city’s underserved neighborhoods, as well as its first mortgage loan office. Lonergan has more than 30 years of banking experience, with nearly 10 years as a commercial relationship manager for CoreStates Bank in the Greater Philadelphia market, where she served both middle market companies and small businesses. Before joining Fulton Bank, she was managing dir
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.
Bucks County is expanding COVID-19 testing starting next week, and officials annouced those same sites would eventually be flipped to become vaccination centers once the vaccine is ready for the public here.
At the county commissioners meeting Monday officials announced 7-day PCR testing sites at Bucks County Community College s Lower Bucks and Upper Bucks campuses and on the campus of Delaware Valley University will open for nine hours a day starting Jan. 11.
The daily testing sites at Delaware Valley University in Doylestown and the Bucks County Community College s Upper Bucks and Lower Bucks campuses are planned to continue for 21 days after testing starts, said county Chief Operating Officer Margaret McKevitt.