Cedar Crest College

Best of the Crest is an awards ceremony held annually to recognize Cedar Crest College student leaders. These students excel out of the classroom through leadership opportunities, clubs, and organizations. Desiree Ventureira earned the RELIGIO Award. RELIGIO, the seated figure on the left of the Cedar Crest College seal, represents a student who strives to apply enduring standards of value to the circumstances of her life, to guide her own actions, and to demonstrate those values to others.

Best of the Crest is an awards ceremony held annually to recognize Cedar Crest College student leaders. These students excel out of the classroom through leadership opportunities, clubs, and organizations. Jocelyn Polan earned the Unsung-Hero Award. This award is given to a student from any class level who may or may not hold a formal position, but whose behind-the-scenes dedication and labors have proven invaluable to the success of a project, program, cause or movement on campus.

Best of the Crest is an awards ceremony held annually to recognize Cedar Crest College student leaders. These students excel out of the classroom through leadership opportunities, clubs, and organizations. Tomeycia Diamond Scott earned the Skills Award. This award is given to an individual who has demonstrated outstanding innovation and leadership in co-curricular activities and/or who has most noticeably developed and exercised effective skills in programming.

Best of the Crest is an awards ceremony held annually to recognize Cedar Crest College student leaders. These students excel out of the classroom through leadership opportunities, clubs, and organizations. Kelly Reading earned the Outstanding Student Involvement Award. This award is given to an individual who is highly involved within the campus community without sacrificing efficiency and dedication.

Best of the Crest is an awards ceremony held annually to recognize Cedar Crest College student leaders. These students excel out of the classroom through leadership opportunities, clubs, and organizations. Michelle Reyes-Vasquez earned the Capstone Student Leader Award. This award is given to a student in her junior or senior year who has demonstrated a capacity for impacting the Cedar Crest community and served as a role model to younger students.

Best of the Crest is an awards ceremony held annually to recognize Cedar Crest College student leaders. These students excel out of the classroom through leadership opportunities, clubs, and organizations. Miranda Alvarez earned the Emerging Student Leader Award. This award is given to a first-year student or sophomore who has shown initiative, motivation, and potential for continued student leadership early in her career.

Congratulations to Morgan Maddock for earning a spot on the CSAC Honor Roll after her 8 save performance in the Saturday's win against Rosemont!

Ruby Garcia of Allentown, a junior at the college, was awarded the Benjamin A. Gilman Scholarship, Council on International Educational Exchange scholarship and the Hispanic Scholarship Fund scholarship. She is using the funds to study abroad in Brussels, Belgium during the fall semester.

Congratulations to Angelina Biondo for her 2nd place performance this Saturday. As a result, she has been named the CSAC Runner of the Week for the second time!

Congratulations to the 2017 Cedar Crest Volleyball Team!

Congratulations to the 2017 Cedar Crest Tennis Team!

Congratulations 2017-2018 Cedar Crest Swim Team Members!

Congratulations to the 2017 Softball Team Members!

Congratulations to the members of the Fall 2017 Soccer Team!

Admissions Ambassadors are an extension of the college's Traditional Undergraduate Admissions Office. Ambassadors educate, engage, and communicate with prospective students and their families about the many opportunities Cedar Crest has to offer through campus tours and admissions events. Student Ambassadors assist the Admissions Office in recruiting the next generation of Cedar Crest women.

Congratulations to the Members of the 2017 Lacrosse Team!

Congratulations to the 2017 Field Hockey Team Members!

Congratulations to the 2017 Cross Country Team Members!

Congratulations to the 2017-18 Basketball Team Members!

Making the Case for Singular They: First, increase the awareness of the use and need of a singular gender neutral pronoun. Second, bring knowledge to the conversation surrounding the debate. Third, give solutions and methods of engaging in this dialogue, as well as examples to use in discussing the need for a singular gender neutral pronoun.

Nursing students are eligible for membership in the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing if, at the end of the junior year when they have completed 50% of the nursing curriculum, they have a grade point average of 3.0 or better, are in the upper 35% of their nursing class and have demonstrated academic integrity and professional leadership potential.

Preterite is the name of Cedar Crest College's literary club, open to students of all majors. Onyx is Preterite's annual publication for winners of its creative writing contesPreterite Each year, Preterite recognizes exceptional student work in fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry with its creative writing contest. All Cedar Crest students-undergraduate, SAGE, or graduate-are invited to submit their best writing. Submissions are accepted throughout the fall and early spring semesters. Preterite members review and edit contest entries during the submission process (in which works are reviewed without student names being identified). Come spring, prizes are given in each category (fiction, nonfiction, and poetry) at the Writing Awards Ceremony, and the club publishes winning submissions in Onyx.

Sigma Tau Delta, the International English Honor Society, was established in 1924 to confer distinction upon students of the English language and literature in undergraduate, graduate, and professional studies. An undergraduate candidate for membership shall have a minimum of two college courses in English language and literature beyond the usual requirements in freshman English. The candidate shall have the minimum of a B or equivalent average in English and in general scholarship (a 3.0 on a 4.0 scale), shall rank at least in the top thirty-five percent of his/her class, and shall have completed at least three semesters or five quarters of college course work. A graduate candidate for graduate membership who did not hold undergraduate membership shall be enrolled in a graduate program in English or one of its specializations, have completed 6 semester hours of graduate work or the equivalent, and have a minimum of a B+ or equivalent average in his/her graduate studies (a 3.3 on a 4.0 scale).

Cedar Crest College congratulates the following students for being inducted into Delta Delta Epsilon - Epsilon Chapter on April 21, 2017.

Laura McCready, RN presented a poster at Eastern Nursing Research Society (ENRS) 29th Annual Scientific Sessions on April 5, 2017 in Philadelphia, PA. Her poster entitled Doll Therapy: An Approach to Calm and Enhance the Well-being of Individuals with Agitated Dementia, received rave reviews during the BS student poster session. Laura is very passionate about this topic and it fit in perfectly with the theme of the conference Leading the Way: Building Strength and Unity in the Diversity of Nursi

Eight Cedar Crest College nursing students recently presented three posters at the National Student Nurses Association Convention in Dallas, TX. The theme of the annual conference was Think Big: Nursing on a Global Scale. Posters included: (1) Prioritization of Care for a Client with Cystitis by Stephanie Kershner, Monique Aquila, Danielle Beecher & Elizabeth Bringhurst; (2) Global Health Problem: Sanitation & Waste Management by Nicole Grimaldi & Natasha Nembhard; and (3) Breast Feeding & Bottle Feeding by Shalyn

Gamma Sigma Epsilon is a national honor society founded in 1919 in order to promote academic excellence and undergraduate research scholarship in chemistry. The society is governed by a National Executive Council of elected officers. Active members of the chapter shall be composed of students who have completed a minimum of 18 credit-hours in chemistry with a minimum grade point average of 3.2 in all chemistry courses and at least a 3.0 overall grade point average.

Cedar Crest College congratulates all new members inducted into the Theta Rho Chapter of the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing. The purposes of the nursing honor society are to recognize superior achievement and the development of leadership qualities, to foster high professional standards, to encourage creative work and to strengthen commitment to the ideas and purposes of the nursing profession. Nursing students are eligible for membership if, at the end of the junior year they have a grade point average of 3.0 or better, are in the upper 35% of their nursing class.

Amnesty International: Unity & Inclusion Within the Local Community. After presenting AICCC's involvement throughout the community. Our chapter will also provide more information on how individuals can participate in not only Amnesty International events, but also become an active human rights advocate within their perspective community.

At the 2017 LVAIC Women's and Gender Studies conference on March 25, 2017, Ravneet co-presented a connected creative analyses of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow-Paper" in a session titled "The Yellow Wallpaper: Hysteria through Fiction and Poetry."