Kaczmarczyk awarded UPS Scholarship

WILKES-BARRE — Patrick Kaczmarczyk, Duryea, was awarded the UPS Scholarship through the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Pennsylvania in the amount of $2,600.

The UPS Scholarship is awarded to a student whose background reflects one or more of the characteristics of highest priority to the UPS Foundation and Council of Independent College’s First Opportunity Program. Those characteristics include, first generation, low-income, minority, or new American students.

Kaczmarczyk is a senior nursing major at Wilkes University.

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