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Erica Newton

No ordinary classroom

9/12/16

Imagine your classroom is an incredible journey, traveling through South Africa and studying while also getting introduced to amazing people, places and animals. Penn State Mont Alto business management student Erica Newton experienced such a journey in spring 2016, when she participated in Penn State’s Allied for Earth Sciences Engineering and Development in Africa (AESEDA) Parks and People: South Africa Wild Coast Program.

Students in Tanzania

Parks and People: Students study conservation in Tanzania

8/19/16

Parks and People: Conservation of Nature and Community is a six-week interdisciplinary study abroad summer program offered through the College of Arts and Architecture and College of Health and Human Development. The goal of the program is to give students an opportunity to confront local environmental conservation and human development challenges through applied research and design projects that correspond to their programs of study at Penn State.

Student sitting on Ireland cliffs

Student Stories: Plant Science students travel to the Emerald Isle

8/4/16

Penn State Plant Science majors Casey Baxter and Mikaela Hermstedt may know all there is to know about the Irish potato famine. This past spring, they took HORT 499H Walking in the Footsteps of the Irish During the Irish Potato Famine: Examinations of New World Crops in Old World Societies. The honors class included a 10-day trip to Ireland after a semester of lectures on the potato and other essential crops of both the United States and Ireland.

Schuylkill students and staff build homes for HFHQ

Breaking the cycle of poverty, one home at a time

6/21/16

Three Penn State Schuylkill students and one staff member traveled to Montreal, Quebec, from May 22 to 29 to participate in a campus-sponsored, international Habitat for Humanity Canada trip.

student with bee house

Penn State Berks students put environmental awareness at forefront

5/26/16

For the past five years, students in the BI SC 003 Environmental Science course at Penn State Berks have worked collaboratively in teams to complete an Environmental Awareness and Community Action Project (EACAP). Led by Mahsa Kazempour, associate professor of science education, students research an environmental issue of their choice and work with a community organization to support actions focused on addressing environmental issues locally.

Students making Jared Boxes

Nursing students participate in Jared Box service project

5/9/16

The Penn State College of Nursing's honor society, Beta Sigma, selected the Jared Box Project as its service project for spring 2016. Created by nursing students at Penn State Schuylkill and several other Penn State campuses, Jared Boxes are shoebox-sized plastic containers full of toys, games and other items to help distract and entertain children who are in the hospital.

2016 laureates

18 honored as Earth and Mineral Sciences Academy for Global Experience laureates

5/9/16

Eighteen undergraduate students from Penn State’s College of Earth and Mineral Sciences (EMS) were selected as EMS Academy for Global Experience (EMSAGE) laureates. The students received the honor during an EMSAGE ceremony held on May 6. EMSAGE was formed by EMS in 2009 as a vehicle to foster students’ global competencies and to promote a spirit of integrity, service and leadership.

Students present results to community memebrs.

Students engage with community at sustainability expo

5/3/16

Nineteen students from instructor Stephanie Velegol’s C E 475 Water Quality Chemistry class presented their water quality monitoring work for Centre County Pennsylvania Senior Environmental Corps (CCPaSEC) through posters at the Campus and Community Sustainability Expo on April 25.

LaunchBox

Berks' Marietta Scanlon making the most of Lehigh Valley LaunchBox grant

4/28/16

Marietta Scanlon, lecturer in engineering at Penn State Berks and formerly Penn State Lehigh Valley, received one of Lehigh Valley’s first LaunchBox grants for her team’s software program Voices Renewed, which enhances the life story collection process for individuals with dementia and Alzheimer's disease.

David Meredith

Engineering professor leads Earth Day activities at Fayette campus

4/27/16

If you noticed young maple trees, their roots contained in bags, strategically placed around Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus, then they came from longtime faculty member David Meredith’s herb garden. If you passed a group of people picking up litter along University Drive recently, then it was Meredith and one of his classes. If you happened to see students planting trees on campus last week, they were brought there by Meredith, their instructor, an associate professor of engineering.

Brandywine Social Justice Fair

Brandywine Social Justice Fair to focus on community involvement April 18-21

4/14/16

Penn State Brandywine’s Laboratory for Civic and Community Engagement will host a four-day Social Justice Fair on campus from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. daily starting Monday, April 18, through Thursday, April 21. The Social Justice Fair will focus on how students can get involved at Penn State Brandywine and in their local community.

student measures frost line of blown film

ExxonMobil internship gives student new view of materials industry

4/13/16

Sarah Newby had one goal when she went to the fall 2014 career fair at Penn State: hand her résumé to an ExxonMobil representative. In fall 2015 Newby landed a semester-long product-development internship with the company, and she will return to ExxonMobil for a second internship this summer.

Steve Mezzacappa

Building a life of purpose

4/11/16

Steve Mezzacappa, a fourth-year architectural engineering student at Penn State, has used this passion for construction to drive and foster his desire to serve others. This outlook has recently won Mezzacappa the honor of being named to "The New Face of Civil Engineering" by DiscoverE, an organization that helps to unite, mobilize and support the engineering and technology communities.

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