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Heather N. McHenry, PA-C, ’08, MPAS, ’09, has been selected as the speaker for the 2016 Graduate Commencement ceremony on May 8. About Ms. McHenry Heather McHenry says she knew immediately—on her first trip to Honduras as a Saint Francis undergraduate—that she was hooked on medical missions. “It opened my eyes,” says McHenry of the experience. Even though she was not a licensed provider at the time and could only assist the physical therapy team in charge of the trip, she says she found the work immensely gratifying. After earning her master’s in physician assistant science and licensure

Senior strategic communications major and pre-law minor Amanda Schiavo presented some of her research at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) on April 7 at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. Schiavo presented findings from a study she completed in her Communications Theory and Research course during the 2015 fall semester at Saint Francis. The title of her study is “Media Coverage of the 2016 Presidential Primary Debates: Information or Infotainment?” After viewing the first Democratic debate and the third Republican debate of the 2016 U.S. presidential primary

In 2012, Saint Francis University launched a new program: Public Health . This past December, the program celebrated its first two graduates, William Myers and Austin Potts. A recent addition to the School of Health Sciences at Saint Francis University, Public Health develops professionals to promote health and the prevention of disease through research, community-based interventions and public policy. Put simply, public health professionals strive to keep people healthy by battling against deadly, contagious diseases and working to reduce incidences of preventable diseases or disasters. As

Danielle MacMurtrie, a newly minted Doctor of Physical Therapy , finished off her final years at Saint Francis University creating an anatomy painting series for the School of Health Sciences. Project Background: While some youth dream of being doctors or nurses, Danielle set her sights on physical therapy. She was first exposed to physical therapy when she was 13 after sustaining a back injury caused by years of gymnastics. “I wore a back brace for two years and received frequent PT.” she recalled “It was the first career in which I could picture myself working. Being in the PT gym just felt

The Saint Francis University chapter of ENACTUS won the title “Regional Champions” in the ENACTUS Regional Competition held in Washington, D.C. on March 29. Competing against 50 other colleges and universities from the Northeast Region, the ENACTUS team presented the results of educational outreach projects which were completed during the academic year to a panel of 12 business professionals. The ENACTUS students impressed the judges with a dynamic, oral, multi-media presentation that demonstrated how the team was able to educate various target audiences including high school students, college

Originally published in the Saint Francis University Magazine, Fall/Winter 2015. Have you ever had bread, cheese, yogurt, sauerkraut, chocolate, pickles, beer or wine? If the answer is yes, then you have tasted fermented foods and beverages. But how much do you know about the person and the process behind the flavor and texture of these types of foods and beverages? Since the beginning of time, humans have harnessed the power of fermentation to produce alcohol as well as preserve and enhance the flavor of food. Nearly one-third of all foods consumed world-wide have been fermented. As a result

The Saint Francis University School of Business and Office for Study Abroad sponsored and celebrated its 10th Anniversary Spring Break trip to London from Feb. 26 - March 5. Twenty students, along with Fr. Malachi Van Tassell, T.O.R., Dr. James Logue, and Dr. Randy Frye attended the trip. The London spring break trip was founded ten years ago by Dr. Frye, Dean of the School of Business, and was inspired by Mr. Philip Kennedy, an Accounting alumnus, former School of Business Advisory Board member, and retired Professor of Accounting from Slippery Rock University. Approximately 210 Saint Francis

The “Real Housewives of the American Civil War” Meet Harry Olafsen, a history major at Saint Francis University. Harry first developed an interest in the Civil War through childhood trips to the Gettysburg battlefield. Combining his passions for studying war and gender studies, Harry investigated individual women’s lives during the American Civil War in order to make arguments about the “domestic war” within homes. In the antebellum period, the cult of domesticity emerged as an ideology encouraging women to be spiritually pious, domestic, submissive to male authority, and morally pure

Elisha Fleig, Class of 2013, shares how her double major in Spanish and Physician Assistant Science prepared her to land her dream job as a PA-C at the Cleveland Clinic Bone Marrow Transplant Unit. Elisha Fleig, PA-C Physician Assistant Class of 2013 First-Year Convocation 2016 Elisha's Story Elisha's Advice "No, it's not a popular vacation spot, a well-known town, or even a bustling community. Most people living in Pennsylvania probably haven't even heard of it, unless they have driven on Interstate 22 heading to Penn State or elsewhere. While those people didn't even think twice when passing

Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering faculty members, Dr. Wang Guochang (front) and Dr. Alireza Shahkarami, demonstrate the new industry software package that is being incorporated into the curriculum. Students in the new Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering program at Saint Francis University are using a well-known industry software package thanks to a generous donation from Schlumberger , the world’s leading supplier of technology solutions in the oil and gas industry. The donation includes a three-year use and maintenance contract totaling more than $58 million in value for 15 licenses of