Penn State faculty Andrea McCloskey and Sam Tanner are quite serious about the often comedic artform of improv. They are two of the four founders of Happy Valley Improv, and behind the performative emotions the two are whittling away at how their artform can serve to transform teaching in the classroom.
A team of Penn State graduate students, led by Vishal Monga, associate professor of electrical engineering, won first place in a worldwide image-dehazing challenge, with another Penn State team placing second in the competition.
Orfeu Buxton, professor of biobehavioral health and Social Science Research Institute (SSRI) co-funded faculty member at Penn State, was recently named the next editor-in-chief for the journal of the National Sleep Foundation, Sleep Health.
Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute’s 2019 Translational Science Fellowship summer program is underway. This program provides graduate and medical students with the opportunity to gain select knowledge and skills in clinical and translational research in a summer experiential program.
Penn State Berks' Organizational Leadership degree is a 123-credit degree program developed specifically for adult learners (age 24 and older) who are interested in pursuing a well-rounded, liberal arts education with a focus on complex social cultural, and organizational issues.
Cheryl Nicholas, associate professor of communication arts and sciences at Penn State Berks, was recently appointed to the Penn State President’s Commissions for Equity. She will serve as co-chair for the Commission on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Equity for Penn State, along with Brian J. Patchcoski, director of the LGBTQA Student Resource Center.
For the third year in a row, the student chapter of Beta Gamma Sigma (BGS) in Penn State Harrisburg’s School of Business Administration was recognized as a Highest Honors chapter by the AACSB – Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International.
The Penn State College of Engineering welcomed representatives from 47 companies, six government agencies, seven Penn State campuses and ten colleges at University Park, to its third annual industryXchange at the Nittany Lion Inn on May 30.
From benefits to parental childcare leave to equality in the workplace, the world of human resource management is complicated. The world’s largest organization that addresses these complex issues is the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). Now business students at Penn State Harrisburg have the opportunity to be a part of SHRM through the new student chapter on campus.
This summer, students, faculty and staff can participate in communications workshops that cover topics such as open access, copyright and fair-use policies. The workshops, offered through Aug. 13, are coordinated by Ana Enriquez, scholarly communications outreach librarian, and will take place via Zoom and in various locations across Penn State's campuses.
Brent Hales, senior associate dean and chief financial officer of the University of Minnesota Extension, has been named director of Penn State Extension and associate dean in the College of Agricultural Sciences, effective Sept. 3.
Penn State faculty member Tara Wyckoff anticipates an immersive program in New York City that connects major marketing, advertising and public relations agencies with educators will help her build more efficient, effective and innovative classroom instruction.
Griff Lewis, instructional designer at Penn State Scranton, was one of 47 University faculty and staff who gave presentations to more than 270 attendees at both Canvas Day and the Teaching and Learning with Technology Symposium at University Park this year.
Alumnus Marty Aronoff recently committed to an even greater and more lasting impact on Penn State students with two gifts — one creating a fund to enable student travel and another supporting establishment of an audio studio in the Donald P. Bellisario Media Center.
A lack of research on how news media from around the world covers climate change inspired Penn State scholar Juliet Pinto to join colleagues in studying environmental coverage from Latin America and the Caribbean. “News Media Coverage of Environmental Challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean,” published by Palgrave Macmillan, won the 2019 AEJMC-Knudson Latin America Prize.
