Kelly Lynn Dunlevy Receives the Outstanding Student in Freshman Chemistry Award at Chestnut Hill College

PHILADELPHIA, PA (05/23/2012)(readMedia)-- Carol Jean Vale, SSJ, Ph.D, president of Chestnut Hill College, awarded freshman Kelly Lynn Dunlevy, a biology major from Oreland, Pa. with the Outstanding Student in Freshman Chemistry at Honors Convocation on April 29, 2012.

Each year, the Department of Chemistry and Physics recognizes a student who has shown superior achievement in their first-year chemistry studies. As part of the award, Dunlevy received a copy of "The Handbook of Chemistry and Physics."

About Chestnut Hill College

Chestnut Hill College, a four-year coed Catholic college in the Ignatian tradition, offers a traditional liberal arts undergraduate program as well as accelerated undergraduate degrees, master's and doctoral programs. The College has been rated by US News & World Report as among the best master's universities in the North, as among the best Northeastern colleges by The Princeton Review, and has been classified as selective by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Since its inception, the College has offered a rigorous curriculum that provides students with a broad background in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. The goal of Chestnut Hill College has been to prepare students for life's challenges by helping them to grow intellectually, spiritually, emotionally, and socially.

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