Guidance & Support Boards
The perspectives of those who know us best supplement the leadership and guidance of Honors College staff. Our advisory and volunteer boards, along with our parents council, are essential and trusted voices for the College as we strive to maintain our reputation as the nation's premier honors program.
External Advisory Board (EAB)
The External Advisory Board is composed of Penn State alumni, friends of the Schreyer Honors College, parents of Scholars, and others committed to the College realizing its mission.
The board convenes twice a year at meetings held on the University Park campus.
Board members demonstrate leadership and commitment to the College through their advice and counsel of the Dean and staff, mentorship of current Scholars, by sponsoring internships and research projects, and through personal philanthropy.
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Melissa Marshall '00 EMS Chair, Career-Immersion Experiences Chief Compliance Officer, Westinghouse Electric Company
Edward Marx '98 Eng Chair, Scholar Access Executive Director, Enterprise Analytics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Tracy Riegel '85 HHD Chair, Community
Brian Schmanske '86 Eng Chair, Brand Development and Deployment Program Manager, U.S. Government
Robert Poole '72 Bus Chair, Steering Group President and CEO, S&A Homes, Inc. CEO, Poole Anderson Construction
William Bogdon '83 Lib Attorney at Law, Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP
Mark Bowser '77 Bus EVP and CFO, Cox Automotive
William Donato, Jr. '94 Bus President and COO, Safegard Group Inc.
Charles Frazier '12 Bus, '12g Bus Treasurer, BDR Properties
Linda Gall
Arthur Glenn '56 Eng Retired Vice President, General Electric Company
Lisa Hart '97 Eng Vice President, M&T Bank
Reginald Hedgebeth '89 Lib Chief Legal Officer, Capital Group American Funds
Edward Hintz '59 Bus President, Hintz Capital Management
Thomas Lindquist '86 Sci Senior Vice President/General Manager for Government Programs, Medica
Todd Lippincott '94 Lib Vice President, Global Rewards, Mars
Nathan Nair '97 Sci Neurosurgery Residency Director and Associate Professor, Georgetown University Hospital
Mark Prybutok '97 Lib Managing Director, GI Partners
Rick Riegel '85 Eng Chairman, ActiGraph & Deerfield Agency
DrueAnne Schreyer President, BDR Properties, Inc.
Sarah Shaffer '97 Bus Rates Manager, Equitrans Midstream Corporation
Andrew Sieg '89 Bus Head of Merrill Lynch Wealth Management, Merrill Lynch
Kristin Smith '91 Bus Senior Vice President & Chief Counsel, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Stephen Snyder '79 Eng Retired Managing Partner, Accenture (Comms/High Tech/Energy)
Brian Stern '90 Bus General Counsel, Cetera Financial Group
Kathryn Sutton '85 Lib Partner, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius
Tony Talbert '99 Eng Partner, The Shidler Group
Joseph Versaggi '83 Bus Senior Vice President-Real Estate, Washington Capital Management
David Wagner '86 Bus President and CEO, Zixcorp
Edward Weber '92 Bus Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer, MLB Advanced Media, LP
James Wiggins '72 Com Retired Managing Director, Morgan Stanley & Co.
Thomas Wilson '91 Lib Managing Partner, Frederickson Partners
Brenna Wist '77 HHD Retired Partner, KPMG
Jack Yoskowitz '89 Lib Litigation Partner, Seward & Kissel LLP
Robert Edwards '75 Bus, '83 MBA Retired Executive Vice President, PNC Bank
Ryan Newman '01 Bus Managing Director, Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Scholar Alumni Society Board (SASB)
The Scholar Alumni Society Board is the governing body of the Scholar Alumni Society, an affiliate group of the Penn State Alumni Association. Board members lead efforts to achieve the mission of uniting and connecting alumni of the Schreyer Honors College by engaging and supporting alumni and current Scholars by giving of their time, talent, and treasure, working directly with College staff.
They sponsor the Scholar Alumni & Friends Tailgate, Homecoming Pre-Parade Tailgate, Mentoring With Honors, and Connect and serve as a strategic partner in the Alumni Admissions Interview Program for which they were recognized with the 2019 PSAA Volunteer Group Award for Young Alumni Involvement. Board members endowed the SASB Future Leaders Scholarship for upper-division Scholars demonstrating leadership in the College.
The Board meets quarterly — during the spring and fall at University Park, and winter and summer via conference call. Committees focused on Alumni & Student Engagement and Career Development & Mentorship hold monthly conference calls. Eighteen at-large members serve three-year terms and are joined by a faculty representative and a student representative. The President of the SASB sits on Alumni Council. Applications for membership are announced each fall.
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Natalie Keller '17 Agr President & Interim Chair, Alumni Engagement Committee Food Scientist, La Colombe Coffee Roasters
Kathryn Pruss Zeltwanger '98 Lib Vice-President Deputy General Counsel, Armstrong Group
Alayna Auerbach '15 Bus Chair, Student Engagement Committee Freelance Management Consultant, PwC (Independent Contract)
Brian Ellis '02 Lib Chair, Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Committee Partner/Principal, Bressler, Amery & Ross, P.C.
Keith Graham '85 Eng Chair, Career Development & Mentorship Committee Head of University Programs, Codasip
Board Members
Samuel Bonsall '04 Lib, '04g Bus Faculty Representative Reeves Family Early Career Professor in Accounting, Penn State Smeal College of Business
Timothy Cooney '00 Bus Senior Vice President, City National Bank (New Jersey)
Lori Feathers '90 Lib Co-Owner and Book Buyer, Interabang Books
Asia Grant '17 Bus Founder, Redoux
John Hemmer '03 Eng Partner, Morgan Lewis
Basel Kayyali '96 Eng Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company
Ryan Koch '97 Eng Director of Strategy & Corporate Development, Intapp
Emily Kowey Roth '12 Lib Attorney, Duane Morris LLP
Kristin Lambert '14 Agr, '19g Medicine Pediatric Resident Physician, Cincinnati Children's Hospital
Jared Edgar McKnight '11 A&A, Lib Associate and Designer, WRT Design
Aryath Narayanamangalam '22 Eng Student Representative President, Schreyer Student Council
Michael O'Connor '05 Eng Litigation Counsel, Kraken Digital Asset Exchange
Carol Packard '99 Lib, '18g Edu Associate Vice President, Colleges and Units - Alumni Affairs and Development, Cornell University
Aleks Radovic-Moreno '05 Eng Partner, Longwood Fund
Nikhil Shekher '16 Bus Vice President of Sales, Diversified Business Consultants, Inc.
Associate Members
Todd Allen '89 Eng President, Allen Energy Inc.
Jennifer Ashman '94 Bus, '96g Bus President, CX Amplified
Sheldon Bailey '05 Behrend Instructor - Department of Physics and Technology, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania
Cyndy Bober '15 Eng Sr. Analyst - Sales Analytics, Hilton Worldwide
Brian Clionsky '11 Bus Vice President - Debt Capital Markets Originator, Natixis
Tyler Dischinger '09 Lib Counsel, Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney P.C.
Lauren Fellin '17 Bus Senior Specialist Re-marketing and Returns, The Hershey Company
Jocelyn Fitzgerald '08 Sci, '08 Lib Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgeon, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Nikolai Foreman '14 Bus Senior Analyst - Renewable Fuels, Shell Energy North America
Olivia Francois '14 Agr Item Writer II, Cambium Assessment
Eric Gibney '94 Sci Program Director, Piedmont Transplant Institute (Atlanta, GA); Transplant Nephrologist, Piedmont Atlanta Hospital
Tamara Hambrick '05 Eng Director of Systems Engineering, Northrop Grumman
Brian Harkless '95 Eng Command Property Officer - Division Director, NAVAIR (US Navy)
Matt Heidecker '02 Behrend, '07g EMS Vice President, Plastic Services Network
Luke Henegar '19 Bus, '19 Lib Global Principal Investments Team, Bank of America
Sue Kelley '91 Lib Dean - School of Business, Arts, & Sciences, Pennsylvania College of Technology
Eleni Kornblatt '98 Bus Director, Global Marketing - HPV Vaccines, Merck and Co.
Hanna Leonard '18 Lib Law Student, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
Rachel-Paige Mumenthaler '15 Lib Assistant Vice President, PNC Bank - Technology Finance Group
Chelsie Rimel '15 Lib Associate, K&L Gates
Tammy Sawmelle '92 Nur Professor of Nursing, Robert Morris University
Bill Simon '89 Bus Vice President, McCormick
Alexandra Stulpin '11 Lib Attorney, Comegno Law Group, P.C.
Emily Weiland '18 Bus Real Estate Banking Associate, PNC Financial Services
Sara Young '14 H&HD Strategic Sourcing Lead, Cochlear Americas
Schreyer Parents Council (SPC)
The Schreyer Parents Council (SPC) plays a critical role in the advancement of the Schreyer Honors College mission. The Council recognizes that parents and families can play a key part in supporting all Scholars, not just their own, through their involvement with the Honors College. The Council was created in 2013 to support development and outreach initiatives.
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Betsy Bruning Co-Chair, Parents Council Teacher, Montgomery County Public Schools (MD)
David Bruning Co-Chair, Parents Council Head - Toxicology Operations, MilliporeSigma
Todd Gardner Chair, Development Committee President, InstallNET International Inc.
Jennifer Wilson Hewitt '85 Law Chair, Outreach Committee
Ronald Francois '93 Lib Major Account Manager, VWR
Valerie Francois '93 Com Executive Communications and Change Management Consultant, Gray Francois Consulting LLC
Laura Gardner
Patrick Hewitt '83 Law Managing Partner and Attorney, Riley, Hewitt, Witte & Romano, P.C
Denise McCarthy
Mark McCarthy Principal Partner, EY, LLP
Cort Morrison Director, Advisory Services, IntegriChain, Inc.
Robin Morrison Freelance Proofreader and Patient and Family Outreach Volunteer, Leukemia and Lymphoma Society
Bonnie Pontell Manager, The Aesthetic Facial Plastic Surgery Center, Inc.
Jonathan Pontell Facial Plastic Surgeon and Owner, The Aesthetic Facial Plastic Surgery Center, Inc.
Jill Semmer '88 Lib
Cheryl Uzzo
Robert Uzzo Chair - Department of Surgical Oncology, Fox Chase Cancer Center
Kim Eberle-Wang Science Teacher, Springside Chestnut Hill Academy
Hoau-Yan Wang Associate Medical Professor, CUNY School of Medicine
Mark Wiggins
Nancy Wiggins Owner and Optometrist, Optometric Care
Faculty Advisory Committee (FAC)
The Faculty Advisory Committee (FAC) consists of senior faculty members from a variety of disciplines that advise the Schreyer Honors College on academic policies and programming.
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Sarah Ades Associate Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Associate Dean, The Graduate School
Fran Arbaugh Professor, Mathematics Education
Seth Blumsack Associate Professor, Energy and Mineral Engineering
Samuel Bonsall Associate Professor, Accounting
Mike Brown Professor, Management, Business & Management, MBA, and MPAcc Programs
Daniel Carvajal Academic Chair, Schreyer Honors College Student Council
Colleen Connolly-Ahern Associate Professor, Advertising and Public Relations
Ekaterina Haskins Professor, Communication Arts and Sciences
Helen Kamens Associate Professor, Biobehavioral Health
Angela Linse Executive Director and Associate Dean, Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence
Keefe Manning Associate Dean, Schreyer Honors College
David McBride Professor Emeritus, African American Studies and African American History
Eduardo Navas Associate Research Professor, School of Visual Arts
Jacqueline O'Connor Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Leticia Oseguera Associate Professor, Higher Education
Rebecca Passonneau Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
Richard Robinett Professor, Physics
Kathryn Salzer Assistant Professor, History
Hans Schmidt Associate Professor, Communications
Aossa Wade Professor, Mathematics
Ethics Committee
The Ethics Committee consists of a group of faculty interested in helping the Schreyer Honors College incorporate ethics into the Scholar experience.
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Jonathan Brockopp Professor, History, Religious Studies, and Philosophy Affiliated Faculty, Rock Ethics Institute
Jeffrey Catchmark Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Agricultural and Biological Engineering Affiliated Faculty, Rock Ethics Institute
Jennifer Eury Clinical Assistant Professor, Management and Organization Affiliated Faculty, Rock Ethics Institute
Caitlyn Grady Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering Research Associate, Rock Ethics Institute
Joshua Inwood Associate Professor, Geography Senior Research Associate, Rock Ethics Institute
Hil Malatino Assistant Professor, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Philosophy Research Associate, Rock Ethics Institute
Martina Orlandi Postdoctoral Scholar in Engaged Ethics, Schreyer Honors College
Ted Toadvine Nancy Tuana Director, Rock Ethics Institute Associate Professor, Philosophy
