2025 Holiday Message

2025 Holiday Message

This holiday season at Alvernia, we're taking a moment to thank our community for continuing to come together and create wonderful culture of care driven by service. 

Recent News

26 Questions with a Class of 2026 Graduate

Communication major & commencement student speaker Héctor Malavé '26 talks what prepared him for the future and who he'll never forget at Alvernia.

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Over 100 Alvernia students present research at annual HECBC conference

Annual event brings together five Berks County colleges to highlight student research

Student Research at HECBC Conference

Alvernia holds annual Earth Day of Service, ramps up sustainability efforts

Students, leadership, faculty and staff help to beautify the area, part of the university’s continued push to advance sustainability.

Earth Day of Service 2026

Alvernia students and faculty earn statewide recognition at SPSEA conference

Ë®¹ûÅÉ's Education students and faculty were recognized for their leadership, innovation, and commitment to the field at the Kindling Change 2026 Student Pennsylvania State Education Association (SPSEA) Conference & Convention.

SPSEA Conference
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Brody DeGroodt

O'Pake Institute work helps MBA student stockpile experience for future career

PHOTO: Bill Sheeler, from left, John Trimble, and Brody DeGroodt at the Reading Area Firefighters Museum. In his years at Ë®¹ûÅÉ, Brody DeGroodt ’25 has had many rich experiences — four years as a baseball player, academic excell...

  • College of Innovation, Discovery, and Enterprise
  • 2026
Lilibet Perez

Transfer student follows mother's footsteps to find community and a full-time job

The journey of transfer student Lilibet Perez '26 to Alvernia wasn’t exactly traditional. She originally thought she wanted to be an elementary school teacher, only to realize a year-and-a-half into her college journey that her heart wasn’t in it....

  • College of Humanities, Education, and Social Sciences
  • 2026
Isaac Peterson Amazon group shot

Biology major turns early college struggles into research success

PHOTO: Isaac Peterson - back row, second from left - conducted field research in the Amazon Rainforest during the summer of 2025 with faculty from Ë®¹ûÅÉ and Georgetown University. For Isaac Peterson '27, Ë®¹ûÅÉ beca...

  • College of Innovation, Discovery, and Enterprise
  • 2026
Dominic Murgido

Criminal Justice grad and retired adjunct continues to serve with bereavement-focused books, support group

It’s hard to put Dominic Murgido ’79 in one descriptive box.What lead him to Alvernia, where he earned his bachelor’s degree in criminal justice with a double concentration in sociology and psychology? It may have been the talks he had with his fa...

  • College of Humanities, Education, and Social Sciences
  • 2026
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