Senior Adults Gaining Enrichment (SAGE), an outreach program of Penn State Lehigh Valley for adults age 55 and older, has announced the schedule for its fall 2016 four-part lecture series, which will explore topics such as hidden biases, women and the presidency, discoveries in astronomy, and social dynamics in the professional kitchen. Each SAGE session is held on the first Friday of the month and begins with coffee at 10:30 a.m., the featured speaker at 11 a.m., and lunch at noon.
Lehigh Valley LaunchBox first-round grant recipient Steve Boerner talks about life as an entrepreneur and how his company benefited from the micro grant.
Registration is now open for the 2016 Diverse Literacies Conference presented by Penn State Lehigh Valley and the Lehigh Valley Writing Project. The conference will focus on "Language as a Resource for Revaluing Diverse Learners" and takes place from 7:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Sept. 24 at Bear Creek Mountain Resort and Conference Center in Macungie.
After completing a BIO 240W Function and Development of Organisms lab involving chick embryos last year, lab partners Yeniffer Arguello and Joanna Haddad were inspired by their professor, Jacqueline McLaughlin, to take the lab’s topic to the next level.
Fundraiser benefiting the Alumni Society First-Year Scholarship Fund will make half-gallon containers of Berkey Creamery ice cream available in the Lehigh Valley.
New incoming students along with faculty and staff gathered for fall convocation Aug. 17, which officially started the new academic year at Penn State Lehigh Valley.
The fall "Five @ Five" lecture series will feature a study in biodiversity and survival presented by Karen Kackley Dutt, instructor in biology at Penn State Lehigh Valley. Lectures will be held at 5 p.m. on the following Wednesday evenings: Sept. 7, 14, 21, 28 and Oct. 5.
