year. The university made the Honor Roll with Distinction for Economic Opportunity, as well as for General Community Service. Special projects earned TLU recognition, including adapted physical education, com- puter classes and early childhood lit- eracy programs.
The National Association of Intercol- legiate Athletics recognized 13 teams at Midland University, Fremont, Neb., as Scholar-Teams during the 2014-15 academic year. For a team to be considered for the award, it must have a minimum 3.0 grade point average (on a 4.0 scale). The teams included were: baseball (3.02 GPA), men’s basketball (3.15), women’s basketball (3.40), men’s cross coun- try (3.15), men’s golf (3.45), softball (3.51), volleyball (3.62), women’s cross country (3.21), women’s golf (3.20), women’s indoor track and field (3.14), women’s outdoor track and field (3.14), women’s soccer (3.24) and women’s tennis (3.74).
Joy Schroeder, professor of church history at Trinity Lutheran Semi- nary, Columbus, Ohio, is the editor and translator of The Book of Genesis (September 2015) for the Eerdmans commentary series “The Bible in Medieval Tradition.” The commen- tary covers the entire book of Genesis and includes an in-depth introduc- tion by Schroeder that locates each of the medieval authors—including Hildegard of Bingen, Nicholas of Lyra and Denis the Carthusian— within his or her context. Schroeder is also the Bergener Professor of The- ology and Religion at Capital Univer- sity, Columbus, Ohio.
Shauna Hannan, associate professor of homiletics (preaching) at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, Berkeley, Calif., was named last
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spring as a Thrivent Fellow. Dur- ing the 2015-16 academic year she is engaging in a 12-month executive fel- lowship. Sponsored by the ELCA, the Lutheran Educational Conference of North America, Thrivent Finan- cial for Lutherans and the Concordia University System of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod, the pur- pose of the program is to identify and equip high capacity leaders for lead- ership roles in Lutheran colleges and universities.
The Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation named Zahava Urecki, a senior at Roanoke College, Salem, Va., a 2015 Truman Scholar. Urecki is the first Roanoke student to receive the award. “The Truman Foundation awards these to students they view as having the potential to be change
agents in the world,” said Jennifer Rosti, director of major scholarships and fellowships at Roanoke. “And Zahava exemplifies that mission.” Urecki is a political science major from Charleston,
W.Va.
At 691, the fall 2015 incoming class at Susquehanna University, Selins- grove, Pa., is the school’s largest and most diverse. Enrolled stu- dents were selected from a record- breaking application pool as reflected in applicants’ SAT scores and high school grades. The Class of 2019 hails from 19 states and from China, Saudi Arabia, India, Japan, Switzerland, Germany and Macao. Also 22 percent of the incoming class comes from historically under- represented groups, compared with 16.7 percent for 2014-15.
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