Wednesday, August 21, 2019
IST alumnus Kevin Mitra has landed his first job at Deloitte, the largest professional services network in the world.
Offered as part of Penn State Behrend’s Elementary and Early Childhood Education program, EDTHP 115A: Competing Rights: Issues in American Education helps students understand how schools are influenced by politics and society. Almost every key educational issue is covered in the course.
Corporate communication students from Penn State Scranton and Penn State Hazleton collaborated on a class project that resulted in the first-ever Corporate Communication Day event for the northeast Penn State campuses.
Faculty at any Penn State campus can receive no-cost training at a two-day workshop May 9-10 on bringing an inter-domain course on the Ethics of Climate Change to their campus. The course is open to faculty of any rank at every Penn State campus.
Teachers-in-training need to learn a lot of different skills, but Jordan Gardner never imagined sewing would be one of them. The culminating project in one of her classes is the performance of "The Happy Valley Show" puppet show, with puppets made by students in the class.
Penn State Mont Alto will hold its annual trauma-scenario training exercise for forest technology and nursing students from 8 a.m. to noon on April 18 at the campus.
Pennsylvania College of Technology is set to provide a quicker pathway to a baking and pastry arts career through a new 12-month certificate in professional baking and a revision to its associate degree in baking and pastry arts that will make a degree obtainable in 16 months.
Penn State Berks is offering a master of business administration program customized to fit the needs of working professionals, with convenient times and flexible formats.
“When these students graduate, they will be engineers who are also human beings with the responsibility to make a positive difference in the world,” explained Zoubeida Ounaies, professor of mechanical engineering and associate head for administration.
Penn State Wilkes-Barre Continuing Education has announced a new credit certificate program, Enterprise Resource Planning with SAP, designed for working adults.
Studying justice and the origins of theater, 10 Penn State Schuylkill students enrolled in an interdisciplinary course with an extraordinary global perk: a week-long trip to Greece.
Tropical paradises such as San Salvador Island, Bahamas, are a frequent spring break destination for college students. But for students in a Penn State marine biogeochemistry course, the spot is teeming with research projects related to the physics, chemistry, biology and geology of the coastal region.
A group of 18 Berks Criminal Justice students and faculty members recently spent a week visiting Amsterdam and The Hague to learn about how illicit drug policies of the Netherlands differ from those of the United States.
As members of the Penn State Livestock Judging Team, several students in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences have been putting their knowledge of animal form and function to the test this semester at national competitions.
Wabtec Corporation has asked first-year engineering students at Penn State to design a regional lightweight locomotive system that can be sold across multiple regions in order to expand the company’s global reach.