<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/newsroom/bc3-prof-to-match-funds-for-scholarship.html" dsn="blogs"><featured/><pubDate>10/07/2025 03:53:05 PM</pubDate><title>BC3 prof to match funds for scholarship</title><subtitle>Breast-cancer survivor establishes “Project Pink” award to aid others</subtitle><description>(Greenville, PA) A Butler County Community College faculty member from Greenville and breast-cancer survivor says she will match dollar-for-dollar community contributions up to a total of $500 by Oct. 31 to fund a BC3 Education Foundation scholarship she has established to support a BC3 student who survived or who helped a loved one to battle the disease.</description><author/><image-caption>Melissa Philson, of Greenville, a faculty member in Butler County Community College’s education and behavioral sciences division, was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 44 in 2017. Philson is shown Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024, in a general psychology class on BC3’s main campus in Butler Township.</image-caption><image><img src="/_resources/images/newsroom/2025/bc3-philson-melissa-092524.JPG" alt="This is a photograph of a faculty member with students at Butler County Community College."/></image></item>