Career Development

Penn State Lewistown Center to hold information session for adults June 25

6/12/13

Adults living in Mifflin County and surrounding areas who are interested in going back to school to finish a degree or to open up career opportunities are invited to attend a free adult learner information session from 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, June 25, at Penn State Lewistown Center, 152 E. Market St., Suite 100, in Lewistown, Pa.

Program provides year of in-classroom experience for elementary education majors

6/11/13

Penn State College of Education seniors who participate in the Professional Development School spend an entire school year inside a local classroom, where they receive extensive professional training and mentoring.

Pediatric psychiatry residents bring medical perspective to clinic students

6/4/13

Dr. Ademola Bello visited Penn State's Children’s Advocacy Clinic (CAC) recently to share his perspective on medicine and treatment options for clinic clients, all of whom are children in the dependency system or children who are the subject of custody litigation. His visit is part of a recent CAC expansion to include pediatric psychiatry fellows as part of the clinic, comprised of graduate-level social work students and law students.

Smeal MBA Employer Relations director elected to career services board

6/4/13

Paul Poissant, director of MBA Employer Relations for the Penn State Smeal College of Business, has been elected to the MBA Career Services Council (MBA CSC) Board of Directors, where he will serve a three-year term.

Judicial internships provide valuable learning experience for foreign lawyers

6/4/13

From pre-trial motions to sentence hearings, nine Penn State Dickinson School of Law LL.M. (master of laws) students from around the world are experiencing the American legal system firsthand as interns in Penn State Law’s LL.M. Judicial Observation Internship program. Paired with a Pennsylvania state trial court judge, students spend an intensive five weeks observing various civil and criminal litigation proceedings brought before the court.

Penn State Williamsport Center project expands education opportunities

5/23/13

Bringing a Penn State education close to home for adults in the Williamsport area is the goal of the Penn State Williamsport Center’s new community awareness initiative. The center is partnering with area organizations to increase awareness of and access to Penn State education programs.

Admissions Office will host June events for traditional, adult students

5/18/13

The Penn State Beaver Admissions Office will host two free events for traditional and adult students, Thursday, June 20, in the Student Union Building.

SPSEA Students participate in an in-service day at the Field Museum in Chicago

SPSEA students experience urban teaching in Chicago

5/16/13

Eleven SPSEA students from the College of Education participated in an urban teaching trip to Chicago this past semester, which included a visit to Erie Elementary Charter School, a bilingual charter school, and volunteer work at McCormick Elementary School.

A revolution in three dimensions, maybe four: Penn State explores 3-D printing

5/10/13

Penn State faculty and a growing group of students are fully engaged in research and practical experiments in the new world of 3-D printing.

Students tour a construction site on campus

Stuckeman school summer camp creates a place for passionate future designers

5/9/13

Conceptual thinking skills? Basic representational skills? Basic design principles of space, scale, and relationships? Assignment: Create a spatial composition defined by planar elements that will then be used to explore the drawing conventions of an axonometric drawing. Does this sound like a summer camp for high school students?

Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Juliana Mercer is shown on patrol in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.

World Campus military and veteran student enrollment continues to rise

5/9/13

The flexibility of online education is ideal for many adults who want to learn when and where it's convenient to them, and especially beneficial to active-duty military service members deployed in a war zone or where Internet access is limited. Since Penn State's World Campus launched 15 years ago, enrollment by active-duty military service members and veterans has grown steadily -- and more than 120 percent in the last four years.

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Why are the number of women in forensic science higher compared to other STEM fields?

5/8/13

It's been an established fact that women have not gone into the STEM fields (science, technology, engineering and math) in large numbers. While in recent years that is starting to change, we all have a long way to go until those numbers approach acceptability.

Student organization hones consulting skills for nonprofit clients

5/8/13

Nonprofit organization ACES North America was presented with a new marketing campaign recently thanks to some consulting from a Penn State Smeal College of Business student group. Students Consulting for Nonprofit Organizations (SCNO), a group that provides free consulting to local nonprofit organizations, also worked with the Children’s Aid Society and the Child Protection and Safety Collaboration.

Penn State online MBA students meet for real-world learning experience

5/7/13

Analyzing how a company operates is an important part of any MBA program. Penn State’s online Intercollege MBA (iMBA) takes this educational analysis a step further by involving iMBA students in real-world learning. From May 12 to 17, the 54 students who have been working together online met in person to study at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.

Penn State student Alan Carothers works on classwork on his laptop.

Career Fair brings together students, residents and employers May 17

5/6/13

Pennsylvania’s improving job market is reflected in its unemployment rate, now 7.2 percent in central Pennsylvania, as more companies ramp up hiring. Central Pennsylvania residents who want to learn about job opportunities in this region are invited to attend the sixth annual Central Pennsylvania Regional Career Fair from 2 to 5 p.m. Friday, May 17, at The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel in Innovation Park. More than 65 employers will be at the event.

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Penn State to offer human development and family studies degree online

4/8/13

For those interested in understanding human behavior, in learning how people relate to one another and about how to make a difference in their lives, Penn State’s new online bachelor of science in human development and family studies (HDFS) offers an excellent opportunity to prepare for a variety of rewarding careers. Offered by the Department of Human Development and Family Studies in the College of Health and Human Development, the HDFS program is delivered online through the World Campus.

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