Michelle Kaschak, assistant teaching professor of English, presents her "Lightning Talk" during the recent Open and Affordable Showcase at Penn State Lehigh Valley. Kaschak was presented with the Lehigh Valley Open Champion Award for her talk.
A growing number of Penn State Lehigh Valley faculty have incorporated open and affordable educational resources (OER) into their classroom instruction. Their commitment to utilizing OER and the many benefits it offers students was the focus of the second annual Open and Affordable Showcase the campus.
A group of Penn State Lehigh Valley students worked virtually with Tunisian and Palestinian students to gain a better understanding of globalization in business.
Kevin Kelley, associate teaching professor of psychology at PSU-LV, is an avid gardener. He was recently honored for his volunteer work with Easton Urban Farm, an initiative of the Easton Neighborhood Center.
When not in the classroom at Penn State Lehigh Valley, Kevin Kelley, associate teaching professor and psychology degree program coordinator, can usually be found digging in the dirt or weeding vegetable beds. Kelley is one of two recipients of the Volunteer of the Year award presented by the Easton Neighborhood Center.
With topics as diverse as the aquatic health of the Danube Basin in Romania to cross-cultural comparison of ageist attitudes, students presented the results of various research projects at the Penn State Lehigh Valley Undergraduate Research Symposium on April 6. Michael Mfarej, a former Lehigh Valley campus student who is currently working in the intellectual property realm, served as the keynote speaker.
Gianna Gomes won first place in both the Penn State Lehigh Valley Undergraduate Research Symposium and the regional Penn State symposium at Penn State York in the business and social science category.
Two PSU-LV students: Gianna Gomes and Fernando Gaton Bido were awarded JEDI (Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) Fellowships for the 2022-23 academic year and received top recognitions for their research findings in the areas of disability and racial injustice
