engaged scholarship

Top News
Top news RSS feed
HESE Greenhouse project

Students solve real-world problems through social entrepreneurship

12/9/13

Penn State student Yixin Sun’s life changed when she began working with the University's Humanitarian Engineering Social Entrepreneurship (HESE) program last year. The program opened her eyes to what social entrepreneurship could accomplish, and it also helped put her daily life into perspective. Today hundreds of students, about half of whom are engineering students, work with community partners to identify challenges and develop solutions through HESE.

Hazelwood Library site perspective

Landscape architecture students bring new eyes, ideas to Pittsburgh neighborhood

12/2/13

Fourth- and fifth-year Penn State landscape architecture students are wrapping up their experiences in the Pittsburgh Studio, a 5-credit class that puts them in target communities in the city of Pittsburgh and surrounding urban areas and charges them to create conceptual designs that can help people imagine what their hometowns could become.

Student holds up American and German flags in Berlin

New WPSU-FM series to showcase outstanding students 'Beyond the Classroom'

11/19/13

Stories of exceptional student involvement will be broadcast across WPSU-FM’s airwaves in a new occasional radio project, "Beyond the Classroom." Premiering on Nov. 21 on WPSU-FM during NPR’s Morning Edition (weekdays 5-9 a.m.), "Beyond the Classroom" explores the experiential learning that happens outside the university walls, and the students who go above and “beyond” normal expectations.

Inaugural Penn State Engaged Scholarship Expo set for Nov. 20

11/18/13

The Council on Engaged Scholarship will host its first Engaged Scholarship Expo at 5 p.m. Nov. 20 in the Foster Auditorium of the Paterno Library. Students, faculty and staff are invited to learn more about the scope and potential of engaged scholarship and connect with others who are passionate about the topic. Twelve engaged scholarship pioneers will present on their efforts, including the Sustainable Communities Collaborative, The Learning Factory, and the Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship (HESE) Program, among others.

Two students pull weeds from rain garden

Penn State students help rebuild stormwater systems in Philadelphia

10/7/13

The Water Blues, Green Solutions Stormwater Management Project -- an initiative coordinated by Penn State Cooperative Extension, Penn State's College of Arts and Architecture and Penn State Public Media -- brought together Penn State students, staff and community volunteers to revamp two green infrastructure sites in the heart of Philadelphia.

Students, posing in front of a giant Vespa motorcycle, learned about the urban mobility market at the Piaggio Museum.

Smeal summer course in Italy examines marketing of luxury brands

9/30/13

Over the summer, 22 Penn State Smeal College of Business students spent six weeks in Florence, Italy, learning about marketing in the context of Italian luxury brands with Lisa Bolton, associate professor of marketing, and Carolyn Todd, instructor in marketing.

Senior psychology major Megan Draper

Brandywine student to spend six weeks in Borneo researching orangutans

9/9/13

Senior psychology major Megan Draper is embarking on the trip of a lifetime as she heads to Borneo, in Southeast Asia, to study what she loves: orangutans. The self-described “lover of primates” is ditching the desks of Penn State Brandywine to conduct research alongside world-renowned scientists at a remote field site in the rain forest, and she’s earning credits for it, too.

Lunar Lion Team Logo

It's rocket science at Penn State's Applied Research Lab

9/4/13

Rocket engines will soon be blazing away in a series of tests at Penn State's University Park campus, enabling students to gain a better understanding of rocket performance and share some of their knowledge with NASA, according to an agreement reached between the University's Applied Research Laboratory and NASA's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center.

Earth and Mineral Sciences Summer 2013 LEAP students

Earth and Mineral Sciences freshmen study sustainability in Jamaica

8/2/13

Sixteen freshmen started their Penn State experience this summer with an excursion to Jamaica for nine days as part of an international travel component of “Sustainability in Jamaica,” a course offered through the Learning Edge Academic Program (LEAP) and the Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Sciences (EMS).

Pages