Mowen earns honor
Education briefs Christina Mowen, daughter of Patricia Mowen of Uniontown and Theodore Mowen of Farmington, was recently awarded the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown Upper Level Secondary Education Student of the Year award.
The award is given to a student majoring in secondary education who demonstrates academic excellence, leadership, involvement in extra-curricular activities and service to both the college and the community.
She was inducted into the Phi Kappa Phi honor society, which recognizes individuals of good character who have excelled in scholarship. She also was named a University Scholar, indicating her academic achievements rank in the top 2 percent of her class.
Mowen, a 2006 graduate of Uniontown Area High School and valedictorian of her high school class, is a senior at the university, double majoring in mathematics education and applied mathematics.
She is a dean’s list student, earning a 4.0 grade point average for both the fall and spring semesters.
She also is a member of Pi Lambda Theta Education Honor Society, the Phi Eta Sigma National Honor Society, the education and mathematics clubs and the Circle K Club. She is a tutor at the university’s academic support center.
Murray named to panel
West Virginia University (WVU) President Dr. James P. Clements recently appointed alumna Rawnette Angelique Murray, daughter of Ronald and Cynda Murray Sr. of Uniontown, to the university’s Eberly College of Arts and Sciences advisory committee.
The advisory committee consists of alumni and friends of the Eberly College who believe in and value higher education. Advisory committee members work to enhance the accomplishments, current strengths and future quality of the college. They also bring the teaching and research activities of the college into closer contact with life in West Virginia and the nation.
Murray is a 1989 graduate of Laurel Highlands High School and a 1993 graduate of WVU’s Eberly College with a bachelor’s degree in biology.
Hogan honored
Greg Hogan of Uniontown was named to this year’s homecoming court at Thiel College in Greenville.
Hogan is majoring in biology at the college and is president of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity and a member of the college’s wrestling team.
The court was honored earlier this month during a football game halftime ceremony.
Cowsert named to post
Carrie R. Cowsert of Fairchance, a junior political science major at Albright College in Reading and an Albert Gallatin Area High School graduate, was selected to be a part of the housing and residential learning staff for the 2009-10 academic year, employed as a resident assistant.
Resident assistants help to create an atmosphere conducive to individual and group development, in part, by facilitating purposeful programming in areas that enrich the overall experience of the college’s students.