Researchers found that older adults are often leaders in innovation, coupling their knowledge and creativity to, among other things, revitalize communities, improve the environment, and pass on skills and hobbies.
Alison Murphy has been deeply involved with the College of Information Sciences and Technology for nearly two decades. As a 2004 alumna and a member of the college’s second graduating class, Murphy was instrumental in establishing a number of IST’s clubs. Today, she's back in the IST classroom as an assistant teaching professor.
Lynette Yarger, associate professor of information sciences and technology at Penn State, has been appointed the Schreyer Honors College’s inaugural assistant dean for equity and inclusion, effective Aug. 1.
The College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) recently announced eight projects that will receive funding from the college’s Seed Grant Program. The program provides preliminary funding for IST researchers to initiate new projects.
An MOU was signed earlier this year – a commitment to continuing what has been one of Penn State’s most productive partnerships. Formally, the partnership began in 2011 with the original signing of an MOU. Subsequently, several college-level agreements were signed in areas of education abroad, joint graduate education, and joint research centers and collaboration. The various activities undertaken by the two universities cross disciplines and colleges.
This spring, Penn State Scranton information sciences and technology students Dylan Webb, Jeff Panetti, Dorian Anderson and John Martin designed the Lackawanna Housing Coalition’s website as a project for the IST 440W capstone course taught by Alan Peslak, professor of IST.
The Interinstitutional Center for Indigenous Knowledge has selected the winners of its 2019 Whiting Indigenous Knowledge Student Research Awards, funded by the M. G. Whiting Endowment for the Advancement of Indigenous Knowledge. Applicants must be Penn State students planning to conduct research related to an approved topic for an undergraduate capstone course, honors thesis topic, master’s or doctoral thesis, or similar.
More than two-thirds of Americans get their news from social media sites, according to a 2018 Pew Research Center study. But more than half who read news on social media expect it to be inaccurate. Penn State researchers are working to improve the prediction of people’s trust in what they read online. In a new project, they’ll advance state-of-the-art machine learning methods to model the psychological phenomenon known as memory illusion.
An algorithm that uses a machine learning technique based on the human brain could ease that data clog by reducing the size of multimedia files, such as videos and images, and restoring them without losing much quality or information.
Eric Brandman, a 2011 alumnus of the College of Information Sciences and Technology, is using the skills and education he gained at Penn State to improve the fan experience at one of the country’s most recognizable Major League Baseball parks — Dodger Stadium.
Rahul Emani is well on the path to being a leader in the cybersecurity industry. He has earned a CompTIA Security+ certification, which stands out on applications for top cybersecurity jobs in government and industry. He also has devised a way to maximize smart home technology at a fraction of the current cost. And, he’s just a first-year student in the College of Information Sciences and Technology, with strong ambitions.
A team of researchers, including several from Penn State, is working to refine a coding scheme to identify social media messages that could be useful to emergency responders.
The Big Ten Academic Alliance's Academic Leadership Program will include six new Fellows from Penn State in 2019-20. The program focuses on addressing the challenges of academic administration at major research universities. Through the program, participants who have demonstrated exceptional ability and administrative promise can further develop their leadership and managerial skills.
A senior columnist at TownHall. A contributing writer at Forbes. A national media legal analyst. An award-winning trial attorney, who has been named one of the best lawyers in Washington, D.C. These are not typical career highlights for a College of Information Sciences and Technology graduate, but they are just a few of the accomplishments that are prominent on the resume of Marina Medvin — a 2006 alumna who has been in pursuit of success since she was a young girl.
The Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology was well-represented at the Association for Computing Machinery’s 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, held in Glasgow, Scotland, May 4-9, with three accepted papers and two posters presented in the late-breaking work track.
