Penn State CHANCE — Connecting Humans And Nature through Conservation Experiences — is offering students hands-on research experience in Greece this summer. Students will study, develop solutions to reduce plastic pollution in Aegean Sea.
Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLT) has introduced the inaugural Teaching and Learning Technologies Faculty Advisory Committee for the 2023-24 academic year. The committee will play a pivotal role in guiding TLT and University IT in integrating technology into teaching and learning practices at Penn State.
Nathan Peters and Jesse Khalil are the first Penn State Lehigh Valley recipients of the ROTC Scholarship awarded by the Steel Battalion of the Pennsylvania National Guard.
Films like “The Godfather” and “Goodfellas” have created indelible stereotypes about those involved in organized crime. This summer, 19 Penn State students learned the real history behind the Mafia during “Organized Crime in Film and Society,“ a three-week course taught on site in different locations in Palermo and Rome, Italy.
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.
