Penn State’s Commonwealth Campuses and the state’s community colleges have announced a new collaboration aimed at expanding educational opportunities in Pennsylvania and removing barriers to degree completion among college students. The collaboration builds upon long-standing relationships between the campuses and the community colleges and a shared commitment to access and affordability in higher education.
Registration is now open for the Penn State Lehigh Valley 2024 Undergraduate Research Symposium, an annual event that gives students the opportunity to share and present research projects. This year’s event is scheduled for Friday, April 5 in room 135. Opportunities available for both preliminary and more developed research projects
Nearly 90 attendees at the latest Lehigh Valley LaunchBox Ladies speaker series event were encouraged to utilize design thinking to solve problems using empathy, creativity, and ideation.
The inaugural event held on Feb. 3 at Penn State Lehigh Valley gave students in sixth through eighth grades a glimpse into the many career opportunities in the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields.
Denise Ogden, professor of marketing at PSU-LV, will appear on a panel of marketing experts to discuss different aspects of integrated marketing communications, on Feb. 22.
Penn State Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLT) has announced that its virtual Symposium Lite will return on March 28, the week after the in-person TLT Symposium. The half-day event will feature four 30-minute, prerecorded presentations followed by 15-minute, live facilitated discussions with presenters.
Andjela Kaur, assistant teaching professor of rehabilitation and human services at Penn State Lehigh Valley, recently completed an Experiential Digital Global Engagement (EDGE) project with students from her employment strategies for people with disabilities course and partners from the University of Novi Sad, Serbia. EDGE is a project-based international virtual exchange program adapted from the State University of New York’s Collaborative Online International Learning program.
Dancers at all experience levels showed off their best moves and learned some new steps at the 2024 Dance for a Cure at Penn State Lehigh Valley on Jan. 27. The annual event organized by the Penn State Alumni Society raises funds for THON Weekend, the 46-hour dance marathon benefiting Four Diamonds, a charity that supports children with cancer. This year’s event was the biggest in its 12-year history, earning $19,000 to date.
