Penn State Lehigh Valley faculty, staff and students visited Machu Picchu on Sept. 27 as part of the International Food and Entrepreneur Series. The next one is on Oct. 24 at Maza Middle Eastern Cuisine.
Dear Katie, written and performed by Abby Kennedy, addresses domestic and relationship violence. This video was created as part of a grant from It's On Us PA.
Carol Obando-Derstine, regional affairs director for PPL Electric Utilities, presented a $5,000 grant to Tina Q. Richardson, chancellor of Penn State Lehigh Valley and Mike Krajsa, faculty liaison of Lehigh Valley LaunchBox for Lehigh Valley LaunchBox's Teen Entrepreneurship Summer Challenge.
Sophomore Jason Shapiro discussed closely-knit campus at PSU-LV allowing him to turn his Air Force background into an internship, and eventually a part-time job at Lehigh Valley International Airport.
K-12 visual arts educators from the Allentown School District participated in a Gallery Walk on October 9 coordinated by Ann Lalik, gallery director and arts coordinator at Penn State Lehigh Valley. The social studies educators attended the second half of the morning to participate in the discussion about the Vietnam War and learn about the current exhibit at the Community Gallery, "The War is still with us" in partnership with PBS39. DaWayne Cleckley from PBS39 and Art Villafane from Vietnam Veterans of America Lehigh Valley Chapter 415 led the discussion. Teachers took a break during the visit in the Ronald K. De Long Gallery which is currently showing "DIGEST: Daisuke Shintani & Atsuko Tajima."
