Recently tenured and promoted Penn State faculty across the University were honored Oct. 2 through Penn State’s Promotion and Tenure Recognition Program, now in its 21st year, during a private event held in the Paterno Family Humanities Reading Room on the second floor of Pattee Library at the University Park campus.
After studying social stratification and the roots of the U.S. housing crisis, students in Penn State Lehigh Valley's introduction to sociology class elected to go to the Sixth Street Shelter in Allentown to help rehabilitate apartments. Students completed physical tasks including painting, cleaning, removing debris and minor repairs like clearing plumbing pipes to make the apartments move-in ready.
Events at Penn State Lehigh Valley inspired a University-wide podcast exploring the journey behind scholarly and creative pursuits across Penn State, and will launch its second season in mid-October.
For 24 college students, the Danube Delta served as both a classroom and field laboratory for two weeks over the summer. The students — selected from Penn State and nations throughout the European Union — were in Romania as part of the Penn State Connecting Humans and Nature Through Conservation Experiences Program.
Pedro Robles, assistant teaching professor of cyber analytics and operations at Penn State Lehigh Valley, has been named to a National Institute of Standards and Technology working group tasked with creating a governance framework around artificial intelligence.
At the end of the spring 2023 semester, six Penn State Commonwealth Campuses named faculty members as Open Champions, recognizing their work with open education in the second year of Penn State’s Open and Affordable Educational Resources (OAER) Champion Awards. A collaboration between Penn State University Libraries and the University-wide OAER Working Group, the OAER Champion Award began as a pilot initiative in 2022 and seeks to recognize excellence, innovation and impact in open educational practices at Penn State campuses.
Numerous undergraduate research programs in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics are offered at Penn State University College campuses, providing students with a special chance early in their post-secondary academic careers.
The creative team of the "Forensic Files" television series will share stories from the show’s nearly 30-year history during their presentation at Penn State Lehigh Valley on Sept. 28 at 12:15 p.m. in Room 135.
Penn State students interested in taking a deep dive into project and supply chain management operations can learn what the field has to offer and meet like-minded peers and colleagues when a new PSCM club launches at the University College campuses, including Penn State Lehigh Valley, this fall.
