2025 Holiday Message
This holiday season at Alvernia, we're taking a moment to thank our community for continuing to come together and create wonderful culture of care driven by service.
Recent News
Century of Francis Hall celebrated at Homecoming & Family Weekend
A century after Francis Hall, the beating heart of Alvernia, opened as an orphanage, the university shone a spotlight on the building with a slate of activities.
Alvernia unveils nearly 300-foot mural celebrating Schuylkill County heritage
Community art project at Pottsville CollegeTowne connects local history, creativity and collaboration
Academic Success Center Welcomes Record Number of Peer Tutors
46 students to serve their peers for the 2026-27 academic year
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Alum honors late brother by founding nonprofit supporting individuals with spinal cord injuries
For two decades, Bob Graul ’78 was a San Antonio divorce attorney. Wanting to follow the path of giving back to the community that Alvernia University’s Bernardine Sisters always fostered, he also took on pro bono family law cases and later repres...
Alumna regains revered voice, returns to Alvernia stage
Fearing it was gone for good, Deanna Reuben ’79 recently regained her voice. Now she’s using it to help others find theirs.In September, the longtime singer produced and headlined “Rhapsody & Song,” an evening of classical, jazz and Broadway m...
Development expert helps those who helps others
A four-decade career in fundraising and development began for Linda Lysakowski ’88 with a chance encounter while she was working at a local bank in the early 1980s and studying at Alvernia College.It was then that Lysakowski received a curious inv...
New York native helps to lay the foundation for physician associate program at Alvernia
Alexis Calkins MSPAS ’26 chose Alvernia for her graduate studies due to its strong foundation of community. During her two years on campus, she helped to foster another foundation, serving among the university’s first Master of Medical Science in ...
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