Penn State Lehigh Valley's golf, women's volleyball and men's soccer opened their seasons. The golf team placed second at the Blue Invitational tournament; women's volleyball came up short in the season opener against Cedar Crest College, but recovered to sweep Lehigh Carbon Community College; and men's soccer fell to Berkeley College.
The National Science Foundation has joined in supporting Penn State’s goal of taking more of its discoveries to market by awarding Penn State a five-year, $500,000 Innovation Corps (I-Corps) grant to establish the Invent Penn State I-Corps Site in collaboration with Ben Franklin Technology Partner’s TechCelerator, Happy Valley LaunchBox, and Invent Penn State’s Innovation Hubs.
NASA invited Penn State Lehigh Valley instructor and FOX43 meteorologist Drew Anderson to the rocket launch of their newest communications satellite on Aug. 18 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Anderson captured the rocket launch on a virtual reality camera.