Nineteen students from various majors, including architecture, landscape architecture, graphic design, theater, engineering, risk management, communications and IST, attended workshops created with the goal of analyzing leadership, design and production within the Walt Disney theme parks.
Hospitality management students are learning about the principles of food production and service management through a collaboration between Penn State Berks' Hospitality Management degree program and the Office of Housing and Food Services.
Penn State is launching a new bachelor of arts degree in history, being offered online through World Campus and the College of the Liberal Arts.
With continued financial and industry support, Penn State Altoona's rail transportation engineering program — the only one of its kind in the U.S. — prepares students for successful railroad careers.
The design team of Alexis Stern, Amelia Ball, Kayla Corazzi, Callahan Miller and Noemie Noullet produced the video that artist Christiane Dolores deemed best in their Time and Sequence class. The friendship between the instructor of the course, Rodney Allen Trice, and the artist was the basis for the collaboration, which has led to some unexpected publicity of the students' work.
Open educational resources (OER) are transforming the landscape of higher education, allowing for more accessible and affordable learning. At Penn State Harrisburg, geology students are using digital rock kits and an open-access textbook in place of traditional rock packages and text, a change that has fueled student engagement.
A team of students has finished assembling a study packet series for Math 110: Techniques of Calculus, one of the most-taken mathematics courses at Penn State, through a collaboration between the Department of Mathematics and Penn State Learning. The packets are available at no extra charge to Math 110 students.
Here is something to think about: Some of Penn State’s current Department of Geography students weren’t even born when Online Geospatial Education at Penn State offered its first class. While online classes are now considered normal, for the educators who launched these distance education courses in the late 1990s, it was a novel and risky venture.
A new course developed by College of Education faculty member Wendy Coduti is the first of its kind to merge the fields of vocational rehabilitation and human resources.
A group of wildlife technology students at Penn State DuBois have contributed to reclaiming some area mine land while gaining valuable, real-world lessons. Lecturer in Wildlife Technology Carrie O’Brien took two sections of her class to a site in the Moshannon State Forest in Elk County in late April to help plant trees in a large-scale effort to reforest a 35-acre portion of public ground.
Nearly 300 Penn State students came together recently for the biannual Campus and Community Sustainability Expo to celebrate their engaged scholarship as part of the Sustainability Institute's Sustainable Communities Collaborative. This semester had 41 projects by students in 13 courses, who provided research and design ideas for 33 municipal, campus and non-profit community partners.
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Jeremy Gernand, assistant professor of environmental health and safety engineering, recently received a Gladys Snyder Education Grant from the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences to develop a computer-based simulator to give undergraduate engineering students experience with the risk-related implications of system design decisions.
Students at any Penn State campus interested in the ways in which bias impedes relationships, work culture, and equity within institutions and across U.S. society can register for a special-topics course being offered online this summer, titled LA 197 Interrogating Bias.
If you walk by faculty member Justin De Senso’s office at Penn State Berks, there’s a good chance that you will hear him and one of his students, James Watts, freestyle rapping in between classes.
The Penn State Harrisburg School of Humanities media center student staff is spearheading a new model for student-driven media at the college. "INKED: Stories that Leave a Mark" is a new publication on campus.
