Daily Brief

Intern Experience at Red Creek Wildlife Center

Red Creek Wildlife Center recently featured one of its summer interns, Kutztown University student Sarah Grace. Grace is an environmental science dual major in biology and marine science. When asked about her future dreams and goals, Grace said, “I expect to venture through a few different areas of the environmental field once I graduate, but I would love to work as a field biologist with foci in population ecology and wildlife conservation. The most significant skill I’ve learned in my time at Red Creek so far is how to nebulize animals with respiratory ailments. I’m also grateful for the opportunities to advance my raptor handling skills.” Grace began volunteering at Red Creek in 2021. She also works at the Hawk Mountain Sanctuary. Photo shows Grace with a Black-crowned night heron patient.

University Relations

Fall 2024 Move-In Volunteers

New Student Orientation is recruiting student and staff volunteers to help unload vehicles and direct students and families on Move-In Day, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 22. If you would like to participate or oversee a student group who is interested in volunteering, please contact Brett Santos at bsantos@kutztown.edu. More information will be emailed in the coming weeks regarding assignments for those who already signed up to volunteer.

New Student Orientation

Brett Santos, New Student Orientation

Facilities Work Order System Offline

The entire Facilities Work Order System (iService Desk/TMA) will go offline 8 a.m. Monday, July 29. The system will remain offline through Tuesday, July 30, as the previously announced conversion to WebTMA takes place. During this outage, emergency and urgent requests should be called into the Work Control Center at ext. 31594 during normal business hours and to Public Safety outside of normal business hours. All other requests will need to be held until the conversion is complete. When the conversion is completed, a new link will be activated on the Faculty/Staff webpage, taking users through Single Sign-On to an all-new Service Request Form. If you have the current work order system link saved as a favorite or if it is referenced on your department’s website, the link will need to be updated after the conversion is completed. Thank you for your anticipated patience. If you have any questions, please contact the Facilities Work Control Center at ext. 31594.

Deb Bond, Facilities

Men's Tennis tabbed ITA All-Academic Team, Nine Members earn Scholar-Athlete Honors

Kutztown University men's tennis was announced as a 2024 Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) All-Academic Team for the third year in-a-row and nine student-athletes collected ITA Scholar-Athlete honors. The nine Golden Bears include Sebastian Arizpe, Gonzalo Barcelo, Lucas Cherniak, Neal Devkaren, Justin Gincauskas, Ethan Moyer, Dang Nguyen, Emmitt Robinson and Henrique Rocha. Student-athletes must have a grade point average of at least 3.5 (on a 4.00 scale) for the current academic year to be considered for the ITA Scholar-Athlete award. To be named an ITA All-Academic Team, programs must have a team grade point average of 3.2 or above.

Sports Information

Quartet from KU Women's Tennis named ITA Scholar-Athletes

Four members of the Kutztown University women's tennis team were named 2024 Division II Women's Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Scholar Athletes, announced by the organization this week. Mallory Barndt, Alexis Bundra, Sarah Lazarchak and Caroline Novak were the four Golden Bears that earned the honor. Student-athletes must have a grade point average of at least 3.5 (on a 4.00 scale) for the current academic year to be considered for the ITA Scholar-Athlete award.

Sports Information