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Continuing Education delivers courses for health care professionals

5/18/13

The Office of Continuing Education at Penn State Beaver continues to offers on ongoing series of courses for health care professionals who are preparing to become personal care home administrators and/or administrators and direct-care staff who must meet continuing education requirements.

Continuing Education offers SafeGulf/SafeLand orientation course

5/18/13

The Penn State Beaver Office of Continuing Education has partnered with the Shale Training and Education Center (ShaleTEC) at Penn College to offer the PEC Basic SafeGulf/SafeLand Orientation course at 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Thursday, June 17, or Thursday, June 27.

Sir John Daniel

Sir John Daniel puts MOOCs into context

5/13/13

The public is invited to join Sir John Daniel, a world-renowned researcher and theorist in the field of online and distance education, for a presentation, “Making sense of MOOCs and other emerging models in higher education,” from 3 to 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, June 13, in Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library on the University Park campus of Penn State. The talk also is available on MediaSite Live at http://live.libraries.psu.edu/Mediasite/Catalog/Full/9516b47f3e5d447d930...

Real-world projects give Smeal students experience solving business problems

5/7/13

Preparing students for successful careers is one of the Penn State Smeal College of Business’ primary missions, and the college has consistently ranked highly among recruiters from top companies all over the country. Part of that preparation is the real-world business problems students are tasked with solving as part of their classwork.

A portrait of Tracy Halmi, senior lecturer in chemistry at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College.

Pingpong ball science lightens tone before finals

5/1/13

Want to understand Gay-Lussac's law? Just give Tracy Halmi, senior lecturer in chemistry at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, a 2-liter bottle, a bit of liquid nitrogen and 4,000 pingpong balls.

A Penn State Behrend professor helps two students wire a circuit board.

Behrend class asks students to build a better grocery bag

4/23/13

The door to Rob Weissbach’s dollhouse is wired with a buzzer and a bright LED light – protection against any Weebles that might wobble in. On April 18, Weissbach, an associate professor of engineering at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, used the dollhouse to teach basic circuitry to some seventh-graders from Warren County’s Eisenhower Middle School, on campus for the annual 21st Century Kids program.

Penn State Lehigh Valley students conduct an interview in the PBS studio.

TV Field Production class to hold advance screening of news show

4/17/13

COMM 282, the Television Field Production course, is ready to air its final project, a 15-minute news show titled "Our Penn State Lehigh Valley" at 12:15 p.m. Thursday, April 25, in the auditorium at Penn State Lehigh Valley. The course, new this semester and instructed by PBS station manager Amy Burkett, had students working and filming at the PBS-39 studio located at the SteelStacks in Bethlehem. The event is free and open to the public.

MBA Information Session slated for April 24

4/11/13

Penn State Berks has received requests from professionals in the Greater Reading area for a master of business administration (MBA) program. In response to this demand, Penn State Great Valley is collaborating with Penn State Berks to offer its MBA program at the Berks campus. There will be an information session for the MBA program from 6 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 24, in Room 112, Gaige Technology and Business Innovation Building, Penn State Berks.

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Continuing Education delivers courses for health care professionals

5/18/13

The Office of Continuing Education at Penn State Beaver continues to offers on ongoing series of courses for health care professionals who are preparing to become personal care home administrators and/or administrators and direct-care staff who must meet continuing education requirements.

Continuing Education offers SafeGulf/SafeLand orientation course

5/18/13

The Penn State Beaver Office of Continuing Education has partnered with the Shale Training and Education Center (ShaleTEC) at Penn College to offer the PEC Basic SafeGulf/SafeLand Orientation course at 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Thursday, June 17, or Thursday, June 27.

Sir John Daniel

Sir John Daniel puts MOOCs into context

5/13/13

The public is invited to join Sir John Daniel, a world-renowned researcher and theorist in the field of online and distance education, for a presentation, “Making sense of MOOCs and other emerging models in higher education,” from 3 to 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, June 13, in Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library on the University Park campus of Penn State. The talk also is available on MediaSite Live at http://live.libraries.psu.edu/Mediasite/Catalog/Full/9516b47f3e5d447d930...

Real-world projects give Smeal students experience solving business problems

5/7/13

Preparing students for successful careers is one of the Penn State Smeal College of Business’ primary missions, and the college has consistently ranked highly among recruiters from top companies all over the country. Part of that preparation is the real-world business problems students are tasked with solving as part of their classwork.

A portrait of Tracy Halmi, senior lecturer in chemistry at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College.

Pingpong ball science lightens tone before finals

5/1/13

Want to understand Gay-Lussac's law? Just give Tracy Halmi, senior lecturer in chemistry at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, a 2-liter bottle, a bit of liquid nitrogen and 4,000 pingpong balls.

A Penn State Behrend professor helps two students wire a circuit board.

Behrend class asks students to build a better grocery bag

4/23/13

The door to Rob Weissbach’s dollhouse is wired with a buzzer and a bright LED light – protection against any Weebles that might wobble in. On April 18, Weissbach, an associate professor of engineering at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, used the dollhouse to teach basic circuitry to some seventh-graders from Warren County’s Eisenhower Middle School, on campus for the annual 21st Century Kids program.

Penn State Lehigh Valley students conduct an interview in the PBS studio.

TV Field Production class to hold advance screening of news show

4/17/13

COMM 282, the Television Field Production course, is ready to air its final project, a 15-minute news show titled "Our Penn State Lehigh Valley" at 12:15 p.m. Thursday, April 25, in the auditorium at Penn State Lehigh Valley. The course, new this semester and instructed by PBS station manager Amy Burkett, had students working and filming at the PBS-39 studio located at the SteelStacks in Bethlehem. The event is free and open to the public.

MBA Information Session slated for April 24

4/11/13

Penn State Berks has received requests from professionals in the Greater Reading area for a master of business administration (MBA) program. In response to this demand, Penn State Great Valley is collaborating with Penn State Berks to offer its MBA program at the Berks campus. There will be an information session for the MBA program from 6 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 24, in Room 112, Gaige Technology and Business Innovation Building, Penn State Berks.