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O’Pake provides back-office lift for local nonprofit startup
During the worst of the pandemic, Jermell Mitchell’s work mentoring youth through the Olivet Boys & Girls Club of Reading and Berks County, like so much else, came to a standstill. The isolation hit him hard.“I was really depressed,” said the ...
Online-program flexibility helps ambitious adult student create her comeback
English Bradley ’26 has “this happy, delusional optimism all the time,” as she put it, and a firm belief that everything will work out, even when hope might appear slim.At her lowest, the Reading native was forced to drop out of college when finan...
Washington Post publishes article by School of Engineering director
As the inaugural chair of Alvernia's John R. Post School of Engineering, Joseph Mahoney, Ph.D., is used to seeing his name in print. But a recent publication was extra special."What running with a jogging stroller does to your body," an article co...
'Giving-back seed' sprouts into lifelong pursuit helping others
For as long as she can remember, helping others has been part of her life, said Kacie Walters '25.The Bachelor of Social Work grad was certainly influenced by her mother’s helping heart. The family’s matriarch introduced Walters and her siblings t...