{"id":55546,"date":"2025-12-08T21:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T21:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/55546\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T21:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T21:44:08","slug":"university-of-scranton-students-honor-hs-teachers-with-kelly-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/55546\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Scranton Students Honor HS Teachers With Kelly Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Marcus Smith &#8217;27, Student Correspondent<\/p>\n<p>The University of Scranton takes pride in its students\u2019 academic excellence, which is made possible in large part by dedicated high school teachers.\u00a0Three such educators were honored last month for contributing to Scranton students\u2019 academic success.<\/p>\n<p>Selected students and teachers were presented on Dec. 3 with Rose Kelly Awards\u00a0in\u00a0a special ceremony at the Weinberg Memorial Library.<\/p>\n<p>The Rose Kelly Award was\u00a0established\u00a0by University of Scranton\u00a0alumnus\u00a0Joseph\u00a0Wineburgh, Ph.D., to link the efforts of educators to the achievements of college students. The award is presented jointly to a student in each of the University\u2019s colleges who has completed two years at Scranton and to the teacher he or she recognizes as having\u00a0a great impact\u00a0in\u00a0his or her life. Students are selected based on exemplary achievement in both\u00a0academics\u00a0and general campus involvement.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Two individuals pose for a photo together against a purple backdrop featuring the University of Scranton logo.\" class=\"\" height=\"945\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2kelly.jpg\" width=\"1512\"\/><\/p>\n<p>College of Arts and\u00a0Sciences<\/p>\n<p>Katie Carrea,\u00a0of Glenn Mills, received the Rose Kelly\u00a0Award for the College of Arts and Sciences. She honored William Wells, her\u00a0emergency medical technician\u00a0(EMT)\u00a0teacher at Bayard Rustin Technical College High School,\u00a0who taught\u00a0her\u00a0what\u00a0it meant to work\u00a0in the healthcare field. A dean\u2019s\u00a0list\u00a0student, Carrea is a junior\u00a0mathematical\u00a0sciences major on a pre-medical track. On campus, she is a math tutor, member of the\u00a0women\u2019s\u00a0crew team and attends CrossFit. She also\u00a0volunteers with\u00a0Students Together Achieving Remarkable Success (S.T.A.R.S.) and\u00a0works as an EMT for Pennsylvania\u00a0Ambulance.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Three individuals pose together in front of a University of Scranton backdrop.\" class=\"\" height=\"945\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/3kelly.jpg\" width=\"1512\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Kania School of Management\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca Boyle, of Sugarloaf,\u00a0received the Rose Kelly\u00a0Award for the Kania School of Management. She honored Patricia Patton, her\u00a0business\u00a0education teacher at Marian Catholic High School, who taught her about the fundamentals of finance, marketing and investments\u00a0and\u00a0pushed her to reach her full potential. A dean\u2019s\u00a0list\u00a0student, Boyle is a junior\u00a0business\u00a0administration major. She has worked as an intern for SL Green Realty Corp., the City of Scranton, the Advocacy\u00a0Alliance\u00a0and Mountain View Real Estate. She also founded\u00a0the\u00a0Lovely Lemon Digital Design and has served\u00a0twice\u00a0as team captain for the PwC case competition. Boyle was\u00a0the\u00a0chief\u00a0marketing\u00a0officer at Pennsylvania Free Enterprise Week and placed in the top 5%\u00a0nationally in the Beta Bowl Competition. On campus, she is the marketing chair for Kania Women in Business\u00a0and\u00a0is a member of the\u00a0entrepreneurship\u00a0club, Business Leadership Honors Program, Frank P. Corcione Business Honors Program and Omega Beta Sigma Women\u2019s Business Honor Society.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Three individuals pose together for a photo at The University of Scranton event, with a purple backdrop featuring the university's logo.\" class=\"\" height=\"945\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1kelly.jpg\" width=\"1512\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Leahy College of Health Sciences\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Lyons\u00a0received\u00a0the Rose Kelly\u00a0Award for the Leahy College of Health Sciences. She honored Jennifer McAndrew who was her\u00a0chemistry\u00a0and\u00a0honors\u00a0chemistry teacher at Holy Cross High School. A dean\u2019s\u00a0list\u00a0student, Lyons is a junior\u00a0nursing major and is in the accelerated\u00a0Master of Family Nursing program.\u00a0She works as a per diem\u00a0nurse\u00a0assistant for Geisinger Community Medical Center, where she also served as an intern. She volunteers with Hospice of the Sacred Heart and at The University of Scranton\u2019s open house. On campus, she is a\u00a0spin instructor, completed a\u00a0community-based\u00a0learning\u00a0project by leading and volunteering with the Nursing Department\u2019s Period Poverty Project\u00a0and also\u00a0has previously served as a\u00a0peer\u00a0health\u00a0educator with the Center for Health Education and Wellness.<\/p>\n<p>Marcus Smith &#8217;27, Schuylkill Haven, is an English and theatre double major at Scranton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Marcus Smith &#8217;27, Student Correspondent The University of Scranton takes pride in its students\u2019 academic excellence, which&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[6704,30764,178,180,179,274],"class_list":["post-55546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-high-school","tag-rose-kelly-awards","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-the-university-of-scranton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}