Since Joselyne Mera Vargas moved to the United States from Ecuador when she was 9 years old, she has developed valuable leadership and communication skills, discovered a passion for data science, and completed a summer internship at Harvard University. To celebrate all that Vargas has achieved during her time at Penn State, she has been selected as the College of Information Science and Technology’s student marshal for the fall commencement ceremony on Dec. 21.
Class of 2018 graduate Jensen Vieczorek may have followed her older brother to Penn State Lehigh Valley, but now she is charting her own course.
As a customer engagement consultant with PPL Corporation in Allentown, the Coopersburg native uses her degree from in corporate communication while focusing on employee engagement.
Interim Director of Academic Affairs and Professor of Kinesiology Douglas R. Hochstetler has been named director of academic affairs at the Lehigh Valley campus, effective Dec. 16.
