Success Stories

Success Stories

Discover how 17勛圖厙 students, alumni, and faculty turn education into action. Explore success stories of leadership, service, and innovation that reflect our Franciscan mission. Ready to see where your story begins? Explore how you can join a community that leads with purpose.

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N.A.M.E. FLIC Funding

OPake provides back-office lift for local nonprofit startup

During the worst of the pandemic, Jermell Mitchells work mentoring youth through the Olivet Boys & Girls Club of Reading and Berks County, like so much else, came to a standstill. The isolation hit him hard.I was really depressed, said the ...

  • 2026
Savas Logothetides

PADCO expands services without adding fixed staff costs thanks to O'Pake

For years, the Pottsville Area Development Corporation has helped revitalize the downtown of this once coal mining boomtown in Schuylkill County by helping to create and sustain dozens of businesses.But in recent years, PADCO, as its known, wasn...

  • 2026
Anthony Kuklinski

Hamburg police chief refining leadership skills with multiple degrees at 17勛圖厙

Anthony Kuklinski loved the experience of earning his bachelors degree in criminal justice at 17勛圖厙 so much that he followed it up by earning his Master of Arts in Organizational Leadership, then immediately enrolled in the Ph.D. in...

  • College of Innovation, Discovery, and Enterprise
  • 2026
Jamie Becker ocean research

Biology professor leads team authoring article on notable marine microbe

Assistant Professor of Biology Jamie Becker, Ph.D., in November published a research article on a minuscule yet mighty marine organism.Novel isolates expand the physiological diversity of Prochlorococcus and illuminate its macroevolution appeare...

  • College of Innovation, Discovery, and Enterprise
  • 2026