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Dr. Theodora Jankowski, English professor and director of Academic Affairs at Penn State Wilkes-Barre, recently traveled to UCLA to participate in the Andrew W. Mellon/Sawyer Seminar Series “Homosexualities, from Antiquity to the Present.”

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Dr. Jankowski’s presentation, “Looking for Lesbians: Queer Desire in the Geneva Bible’s ‘Song of Songs,’” concerned her study of the Geneva Bible, the first English translation of the Bible to be made from the original Hebrew and Koine Greek.

For this series, which began this past October and extends until June, UCLA invited scholars in the field to share their findings in both past and present and local and global studies of same-sex desire and relationships.

Seybert receives national acting award

Elizabeth Seybert was among Arcadia University Theater students who earned national awards, regional accolades and the first standing ovation at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival for Region II on Jan. 14, at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She was a semi-finalist in the Irene Ryan Competition.

Seybert, a 2007 graduate of Bishop O’Reilly, will receive a Bachelor Fine Arts in Acting degree in May 2011. She will play Ata in the Arcadia spring production of “Criminal Hearts.”

Seybert is the daughter of Tom and Chris Seybert, of Dallas.

Phillips, Vozdak named to dean’s list

Shauna Phillips and Amy Vodzak, both of Dallas, have been named to the dean’s list for the fall 2009 semester at Widener University.

The dean’s list recognizes full-time students who earned a grade point average of 3.50 and above for the semester.