Melina Czymoniewicz-Klippel, assistant teaching professor of biobehavioral health, is a recipient of a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning grant from the Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence. Her project will involve analysis of online written assignments of students, to examine the impact of immersive experiences on student engagement and learning.
Penn State University Libraries is conducting a survey of all Penn State faculty about the impact of digital technologies on research, teaching and publishing. The survey will be conducted from Tuesday, March 13, to Tuesday, April 10, in partnership with national research organization Ithaka S+R, and distributed to a University-wide faculty sample via Penn State email invitation on behalf of Dean Barbara I. Dewey.
Two Penn State Berks faculty members were recently honored by the American Society for Engineering Education. Their paper titled, "Assessment of Progressive Learning of Ethics in Engineering Students Based on the Model of Domain Learning," co-authored by Sadan Kulturel-Konak and Abdullah Konak, among others, was recognized as the ASEE Best Zone I Paper for 2017.
The Idaho State University Department of English and Philosophy has announced “Service Learning and Literary Studies in English,” edited by Laurie Grobman (Penn State Berks) and Roberta Rosenberg (Christopher Newport University) as the winner of the 2017 Teaching Literature Book Award.
Kiernan Riley, an honor’s nursing student at Penn State Worthington Scranton, has been researching end-of-life care and patients living with end-stage heart failure for over a year now with Dr. Michael Evans, PSWS assistant clinical professor. In January, she had the opportunity to present pieces of that research at a conference hosted by Geisinger Medical Center in Danville
This summer, Penn State researchers are partnering with the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) to investigate a major obstacle facing renewable energy -- uncertainty in energy production due to atmospheric conditions like cloud cover or wind speed. The team seeks to develop new algorithms that better predict the amount of energy produced by solar and wind sources, with a goal to increase the use of renewable energy on a daily basis and reduce costs.
Explore the stunning and complex forms of nature like never before with Jan Reimann, assistant professor of mathematics at Penn State, April 8 during one of the talks that make up Penn State Brandywine’s 2015 Spring Speaker Series.
For Belén Rodríguez Mourelo, author of "Encounters in Exile: Themes in the Narrative of the Cuban Diaspora," writing about Cuba is personal. The introduction to her book describes her grandfather’s experience in Cuba over a 40-year span, from 1912–1952.
Lehigh Valley professor Barbara Cantalupo and DuBois Professor Emeritus Richard Kopley are notable Edgar Allan Poe scholars, longtime colleagues and friends. Their most recent collaboration, the fourth International Edgar Allan Poe Conference, was more than two years in the making.
Human development and family studies major Lauren Lomas, a Schreyer Honors Scholar, is one of the eight Penn State students from across the commonwealth selected to showcase their research in Harrisburg at the 13th annual Undergraduate Research at the Capitol – Pennsylvania conference.
Since joining Penn State Brandywine’s faculty in 2001, Associate Professor of Earth Science Laura Guertin has focused on bringing real-world perspective into the classroom. The geologist recently voyaged to sections of the Atlantic Ocean to conduct a research mission with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) as part of its Teacher at Sea Program.
Penn State Lehigh Valley will highlight the academic research of selected faculty members with two events this fall. On Nov. 10, Mark Gruskin, assistant professor of finance and accounting, will present at 1 p.m. in Room 216. On Dec. 2, Kasey Hudak, assistant professor of corporate communication, will present at 12:15 p.m. in Room 216. The events are free and open to the public.
A Penn State Shenango English instructor and a Kate Chopin scholar, with the assistance Penn State Shenango’s Reference Librarian, have collaborated on the recovery of a Kate Chopin short story considered lost or destroyed for more than a century. Faculty member Angela Gianoglio Pettitt, independent scholar Bonnie James Shaker, and librarian Erin Burns uncovered Chopin’s “Her First Party” while searching the American Periodical Series Online, an electronic database of more than 1,100 periodicals circulating from 1741-1940 to which Penn State Libraries subscribe.
Penn State Brandywine associate professor of communication arts and sciences Susan Fredricks has been honored for her global research, which could improve people’s understanding of how individuals make ethical decisions.
Penn State Abington has a well-earned reputation as a thriving environment for undergraduate and faculty research.
