CAMPUS NOTES In the spotlight

GROVE CITY COLLEGE, Grove City, Pa.
The college chapter of Kappa Delta Pi, the international honor society in education, has received the international's Achieving Chapter Excellence (ACE) Award, presented to five chapters annually. The award will be presented Nov. 13 in St. Louis at the international's 44th Biennial Convocation.
The local chapter was recognized for its activities and community service projects, which include volunteering at the Halloween safety program Witch Watch; sponsoring a spring story-writing contest for local elementary pupils; running a Reading Is Fun program at local schools; and inviting speakers in the education field to visit campus.
YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY
Shawn Chernushin of Poland has been selected to receive the Engineers Foundation of Ohio General Fund Scholarship, in recognition of scholastic achievement and potential as a leader in the engineering profession. EFO is the educational foundation of the Ohio Society of Professional Engineers, a chapter of the national society.
Chernushin was also recently awarded the Samantha Grace Pancoe Memorial Scholarship from the College of Engineering at YSU, where he is a sophomore majoring in mechanical engineering and a member of the Alpha Lambda Delta national academic honor society. Chernushin is a 2001 graduate of Boardman High School and the son of Mr. and Mrs. Alan Chernushin.
YSU's Theta Upsilon chapter of the Alpha Xi Delta Fraternity earned the following awards at the fraternity's national convention in Orlando, Fla.: the Order of the Quill for management practices; the Elizabeth G. Van Buskirk Member Group Achievement award for new groups with a grade average of at least 3.0; the Rose award for improvement; the Chapter Quota award for recruitment; the Greatest Academic Improvement award, the Financial Efficiency award; and the Academic Achievement Excellence award.
Members of the Theta Upsilon executive committee are: Carrie Anderson of Enon Valley, Pa., Heidi Critser of Wintersville; Amy Ruffner of Youngstown; Jackie Park of New Castle, Pa.; Michelle Phillips of West Farmington; Jackie Kowach of Youngstown; Elizabeth Wheeler of Masury; and Rachel Becker of Alexandria.
URSULINE COLLEGE, Pepper Pike
Recent graduate Kristen Hartz of Austintown was vice president of the Psy Chi national honor society for psychology students and co-editor of the award-winning Inscape 2002 literary/art magazine. This spring, her research project, "Collegiate Athleticism as a Predictor of Resiliency to Media Exposure" was accepted and presented at the Midwestern Psychological Association's annual conference in Chicago.
DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Recent graduate Justin Mistovich, son of Ron and Joyce Mistovich of Boardman, was the recipient of a National Science Foundation Grant to conduct genetics research. He has also earned university science, Spanish and volunteer awards and is a member of several academic honor societies.
The 1999 graduate of Boardman High Schools works as an orthopedic technician and is activity coordinator at the UPMC Rehabilitation Hospital.
OHIO UNIVERSITY, Athens
Recent graduate Katie Quaranta was awarded a graduate fellowship to study communication at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Ill. At OU, she had been inducted into various honor societies and earned an award for excellence for her work in the Education Abroad Program in Pamplona, Spain.
She is a 2000 Boardman High School graduate and daughter of Joseph and Mary Jane Quaranta.