{"id":802,"date":"2015-03-30T08:10:03","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T12:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/?p=802"},"modified":"2015-03-27T11:18:39","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T15:18:39","slug":"pi-theta-epsilon-welcomes-new-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/2015\/03\/30\/pi-theta-epsilon-welcomes-new-members\/","title":{"rendered":"Pi Theta Epsilon Welcomes New Members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right\"><strong>by Ann Marie Potter, MA, OTR\/L, Lecturer and PTE Advisor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On March 15, thirteen new members were inducted into Pi Theta Epsilon (PTE), occupational therapy&#8217;s national honor society.\u00a0Students who are junior or senior status with a GPA of at least 3.5 and in the top 35% of their class are invited to apply. Alumna <strong>Sara Brown Del Pozo<\/strong> gave the keynote address at the induction ceremony and <strong>Terri Dennehy<\/strong>, lecturer, provided closing remarks. Please join us in congratulating new members: senior <strong>Kristin Russ<\/strong> and juniors <strong>Adam Amspacher<\/strong>, <strong>Nicole Brackman<\/strong>, <strong>Jamie Deisher<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Adelyn Enders<\/strong>, <strong>Jacalyn Hikes<\/strong>, <strong>Molly Hurley<\/strong>, <strong>Carly Mutter<\/strong>, <strong>Jenna Nguyen<\/strong>, <strong>Alyssa Rea<\/strong>, <strong>Rebecca Roth<\/strong>, <strong>Rachel Sassaman<\/strong>, and <strong>Megan Ziff<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_806\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-806\" style=\"width: 2070px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/files\/2015\/03\/New-PTE-members.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-806\" src=\"http:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/files\/2015\/03\/New-PTE-members.jpg\" alt=\"New members of the PTE honor society\" width=\"2070\" height=\"1346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/files\/2015\/03\/New-PTE-members.jpg 2070w, https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/files\/2015\/03\/New-PTE-members-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/files\/2015\/03\/New-PTE-members-1024x665.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2070px) 100vw, 2070px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-806\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some of our newest PTE members<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The mission of PTE is to promote scholarship within the profession. \u00a0This past year PTE has held several activities to promote OT and scholarship on campus. \u00a0In the fall, PTE hosted <a title=\"Stronger Every Day:  Meet Brian Keefer\" href=\"http:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/2014\/10\/29\/stronger-every-day-meet-brian-keefer\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brian Keefer,<\/a> who shared his experiences living with a spinal cord injury. \u00a0PTE co-hosted\u00a0the movie,\u00a0<a title=\"Veterans\u2019 Day Movie Showing \u2013 \u201cTravis: A Soldier\u2019s Story\u201d\" href=\"http:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/2014\/11\/04\/veterans-day-movie-showing-travis-a-soldiers-story\/\" target=\"_blank\">Travis: A Soldier&#8217;s Story<\/a>, with POTA in November. \u00a0Each spring PTE assists in the planning and carrying out of the <a title=\"O.T. Graduate Research Symposium \u2013 April 22, 2015\" href=\"http:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/2015\/03\/04\/o-t-graduate-research-symposium-april-22-2015\/\" target=\"_blank\">Occupational Therapy Graduate Research Symposium<\/a>. The outgoing president of PTE is graduate student, <strong>Emily Peters<\/strong>. Senior <strong>Erin N Kelly<\/strong> is the president-elect. Congratulations to all of our PTE students for their academic achievements.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_805\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-805\" style=\"width: 688px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/files\/2015\/03\/PTE-large-group-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-805 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/files\/2015\/03\/PTE-large-group-2-1024x562.jpg\" alt=\"Large group of all PTE members at the 2015 Induction Ceremony\" width=\"688\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/files\/2015\/03\/PTE-large-group-2-1024x562.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/files\/2015\/03\/PTE-large-group-2-300x164.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 688px) 100vw, 688px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-805\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PTE Honor Society at the March 15th Induction Ceremony<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Ann Marie Potter, MA, OTR\/L, Lecturer and PTE Advisor On March 15, thirteen new members were inducted into Pi Theta Epsilon (PTE), occupational therapy&#8217;s national honor society.\u00a0Students who are junior or senior status with a GPA of at least &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/2015\/03\/30\/pi-theta-epsilon-welcomes-new-members\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pi Theta Epsilon Welcomes New Members<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-spotlight","category-news-and-accomplishments","category-student-spotlight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":810,"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions\/810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}