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Opening the STEM classroom to students with visual impairments

2/12/19

The STEM Extension Weekend at Penn State, taught by members of the Eberly College of Science, aims to show high school students who are blind or visually impaired that they can go to college for and have a career in science, even with their visual impairments.

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Undergraduate students engage with Latino farmworker community through course

2/7/19

Because of significant labor shortages, Pennsylvania's dairy farms rely on Spanish-speaking immigrants as a key source of labor. However, cultural differences and language barriers can leave employers and workers lost in translation. A new, innovative community service-learning course — "Service-Learning with Pennsylvania Farmworkers" — offered by Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences is aimed at breaking down those barriers.

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Webinar series will help landowners care for their woods

12/14/18

A webinar series co-sponsored by Penn State Extension will help owners of small woodlots to manage their parcels sustainably. The "Woods in Your Backyard" series teaches land stewardship through eight live, one-hour, online evening lectures that begin Feb. 6.

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Penn State DuBois announces courses for professionals in St. Marys

8/3/18

Penn State DuBois Continuing and Community Education is offering technical workshops and supervision courses this fall at the Community Education Center, located at 4 Erie Ave. in St. Marys. These programs aid those employed in the manufacturing industry, as well as other businesses that need important and up-to-date training for their supervisors.

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Penn State joins initiative to educate more low- and moderate-income students

4/18/18

Penn State announced April 18 that it has joined the American Talent Initiative, partnering with top-performing institutions to commit to the collective goal of enrolling 50,000 additional talented, low- and moderate-income students at colleges and universities with strong graduation rates by 2025.

Penn State professor Susan Brantley demonstrates how to use a database that helps scientists track water quality

Data driven dialogue: Scientists bring groups together on water quality concerns

1/31/18

Shale Network, a team of scientists studying water quality around Marcellus Shale drilling in Pennsylvania, has spent the last six years fostering a dialogue between concerned citizens, watershed groups, government regulators and representatives from large energy companies around water quality data in the state.

Students learn about nanotechnology in the Center for Nanotechnology Education and Utilization's Teaching Cleanroom.

Penn State offers free live stream nanotechnology workshops

12/20/17

To help fill the need for 6 million workers trained in nanotechnology and nanofabrication, Penn State Center for Nanotechnology Education and Utilization's Nanotechnology Professional Development Partnership is offering free live stream nanotechnology workshops for educators.

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Penn College to again make impression on Farm Show attendees

12/15/17

Hundreds of thousands of visitors will soon flock to the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex & Expo Center to celebrate the Commonwealth’s leading industry, and Pennsylvania College of Technology students and employees will be on hand for an interactive peek into the real-world applications of “degrees that work.”Students in Penn College’s hospitality majors join their instructor, Chef Michael J. Ditchfield, on the Culinary Connection stage at the Pennsylvania Farm Show last January.

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'Virtual farm' website provides a plethora of dairy sustainability information

11/7/17

Farmers can see sustainability principles in action with just a few mouse clicks, thanks to an interactive "virtual farm" web site developed by researchers in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences and Penn State Extension, in partnership with the project's lead, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Cornell University and the Dairy Innovation Center.

Young preschool-aged girl pours fluid into a beaker.

'They absorb everything'

10/24/17

Science Storytime is a monthly program at Penn State Behrend where young learners are exposed to science-based topics through story reading, hands-on activities, and space shows held in the college’s Yahn Planetarium.

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