Penn State Engagement Day concluded with a pep rally celebrating Penn State's and Lincoln Leadership's spirit. The Nittany Lion and the Lincoln Leadership Academy’s mascot, the Lincoln Lion, faced off in a dance-off competition.
Jacqueline McLaughlin, Ph.D., associate professor of biology at Penn State Lehigh Valley and founding director of Penn State CHANCE, has been selected to participate in national incubator project entitled: Next Generation Careers: Innovation in Environmental Biology Education. About 40 representatives from academia, private sector, government and non-governmental organizations were invited to seed a new network to support workforce development for college graduate career progression into environmental biology, including fields such as ecology, evolution, conservation, plant biology and natural resource management. A kick-off workshop will be held from October 17-19, 2016 at the Maritime Institute (CCMIT) in Linthicum, MD conference center. This workshop is made possible by a grant from the National Science Foundation under the direction of the Society of Conservation Biology(SCB) and the Ecological Society of America (ESA).
Matt Baranoski (Left) and Bobby Lea (Right) are two former Penn State Lehigh Valley track cyclists and the only two U.S. men who qualified to compete in track cycling events at the Summer Games in Rio De Janeiro in August.
Matt Baranoski, who was the youngest USA Cycling Elite National Champion, qualified for his first Olympic Games and competed in the Keirin event in Rio De Janeiro in August.
Lea and Baranoski were welcomed home by the Penn State Lehigh Valley Alumni Society during a special Blue and White Night event on August 26 at the Valley Preferred Cycling Center.
