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2009 June 7: We're glad to welcome Lee Ann Carnes on board as our new Assistant Director! She brings a wealth of experience to a crucial position in our staff. She'll be helping us plan and organize this Summer and come Fall, she'll be around to help SDU students integrate into their college lives and maximize their Scholars experience.

The softball tournament was a triumph for SDU this year! (We didn't actually win, though.)

You can always check the SDU google calendar (link above!) for ongoing events of interest to SDU students! Feel free to email Dr. Peel if you think something needs to be added to that calendar.

The overnight Green Bank trip was a great success: 16 SDU and 14 STS students spent the weekend climbing, measuring the shape of the Milky Way, marvelling at the biggest movable structure in the world, caving, and mostly eating. Photos are here.

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Incoming SDU Freshmen

Welcome to College Park Scholars! You'll be moving in to a great community-within-a-community in a matter of days and we look forward to seeing you. All the staff will be turning out for Move In Day, Thursday, August 27th from 8-12 to help you get sorted out and made to feel at home in your new home. Your first SDU specific activity will be the very next day, Service Day, where you'll be called on to help out at one of four locations (click the link for more details).

If you have any questions about what your first weekend here might entail, check out New Student Orientation website. There's a strong chance that on Saturday the 29th, SDU will organize a trip over to the College Park Aviation Museum for their 100th Anniversary "Air Fair" celebration, including an air show and carnival atmosphere. After all, it will have been one of our Service Day sites, and we will have helped them set up for this party, so we might as well come to it!

In Memoriam: Ken Joseph

With the rest of the CP Scholars community, we at SDU are mourning the loss of Ken Joseph, a wonderful man who personified the spirit of developing community that is integral to Scholars. The Diamondback has a very nice article about him here. It is hard to think of Scholars without him.

James Keane receives Shapiro award

SDU graduate and current junior James Keane was awarded the Nancy and Ira Shapiro Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research at the Scholars Awards ceremony on October 31. This award goes to the best submitted research for all of Scholars. Chris Caruso and Laura Jenkins recieved the SDU Outstanding Achievement awards, while Charlie Schuster and Matt Adams received the SDU Citizenship awards.