Robert Correas-Rivera, Shillington, a journalism and electronic media major at the University of Scranton, was among the students in a Social Media Campaigns course who won third place in the Gift of Life 2024 Students Save Lives College Challenge.
The annual competition invites organizations and clubs at universities and colleges to help increase organ donor awareness and registration on campus. Fifteen Pennsylvania and New Jersey colleges participated in the challenge this year’s challenge, registering a total of 304 people as organ and tissue donors.
Scranton students held “awareness table sits” as well as special events and an online campaign. The students utilized social media to post fun facts about organ donation.
Professor honored
Dr. Lauren Moss, professor of Counselor Education and Student Affairs at Kutztown University, received the school’s 2024 Arthur and Isabel Wiesenberger Award for Excellence in Teaching. The award is presented annually to a faculty member who has demonstrated superlative teaching skills and service to the university.
Moss is a Licensed Professional Counselor, certified school counselor and special education teacher. She has extensive experience working with children who have diverse needs in a variety of settings and school systems. Her specialties include anxiety, depression, learning disabilities and attention challenges. She encourages collaboration when working with families, peers, educators and other stakeholders. She has served at KU since 2014.
Moss earned her Ph.D. in counseling and student personnel services from the University of Georgia, her Master of Science in post-secondary education from Troy University of Alabama and a Bachelor of Science from education with minors in educational psychology and dance from Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
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