Four Penn State campuses — Abington, Berks, Lehigh Valley and Mont Alto — awarded Penn State’s inaugural Open and Affordable Educational Resources (OAER) Champion Award during the spring 2022 semester. A collaboration between Penn State University Libraries and the University-wide OAER Working Group, the OAER Champion Award is a pilot initiative recognizing excellence, innovation and impact in OAER at Penn State campuses.
Penn State Lehigh Valley Associate Professor of Biology Jacqueline McLaughlin recently received the National Society for Experiential Education 2022 John S. Duley Lifetime Achievement Award in Experiential Education. In addition, in early June she delivered a virtual keynote address to attendees at the FarmConect Romania agriculture conference held in Slobozia, Romania.
Lehigh Valley LaunchBox powered by Penn State will host its seventh annual Teen Entrepreneur Challenge July 5-10 at the Perkiomen School in Pennsburg. This year’s theme is “The Future of Work: The Gig Economy, the Creator Economy and Remote Work.”
Based on public health guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), face masks are no longer required to be worn indoors at the University Park, Great Valley, Lehigh Valley, New Kensington, Schuylkill and Scranton campuses, effective Friday, June 3.
Former Penn State and NFL star Matt Millen will be the featured speaker at the Lehigh Valley Chapter of the Penn State Alumni Association's “An Evening with Matt Millen” on June 22. The event is being held as a scholarship fundraiser for Penn State Lehigh Valley students.
Professional cyclist Mandy Marquardt, a Penn State Lehigh Valley graduate, is pursuing her passion of qualifying for the Olympics while getting her MBA through Penn State World Campus, thanks to the flexibility of getting her graduate degree online.
The jerseys of Penn State Lehigh Valley women’s basketball players Jah'nel Oliver and Taylor Styles were recently selected for inclusion in the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame's “Ring of Honor,” which consists of more than 100 jerseys on display honoring the top high school and college players from the previous season.
Face masks are now required to be worn indoors on eight Penn State campuses, in accordance with public health guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that advises that masks be worn in counties with high COVID-19 Community Levels.
Penn State Lehigh Valley held its first-ever Open and Affordable Showcase, a half-day conference sponsored by the campus Library and Academic Affairs focused on open and affordable educational resources (OAER). There, attending faculty and staff had the chance to recognize and celebrate OAER-related work at the campus, and to advance the importance of the resources in regard to student access, affordability and retention.
