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Six Weeks Initiative

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Lerato Rametse, assistant residence life coordinator, is a member of the Six Weeks Initiative team—a coordinated network of faculty members, support staff, and campus resource officers who reach out to students who may be struggling in their first few months at Behrend.

Alexa Hodge, Penn State Berks

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Alexa Hodge, Coordinator of Student Support Services, The Aspiring Scholars Program and the Pathway to Success: Summer Start Program at Penn State Berks, is one of the winners of the 2023 Student Success Team Builders Award.

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Aliya Karim, a pre-med student at University Park who is from Ghana, takes a soil sample on the University Park campus. Karim, who served as an undergraduate mentor in the EnvironMentors program last year, researched the effects of soil health on microbial diversity along with high schooler Fatima Nadeem (not pictured).

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The Graduate School has hosted alumni career development panels annually for several years. Pictured are participants and moderators in the 2022 event: Stephanie Danette Preston, associate dean for graduate educational equity and chief diversity officer, the Graduate School; Tiffany Knearem, Information Sciences and Technology alumna; Joslenne Peña, Information Sciences and Technology alumna; and Sarah Ades, associate dean for graduate student affairs, the Graduate School