Jack Yacoub spent one week in May at Xavier University of Louisiana at an advanced training course sponsored by the National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Aging, Magee-Womens Research Institute and Foundation, Morehouse School of Medicine, and Xavier University of Louisiana.
Tai-Yin Huang, professor of physics at Penn State Lehigh Valley, was recently selected by the American Geophysical Union to participate in its 2018 Voices for Science program.
Intercollegiate athletics programs at Penn State’s 19 Commonwealth Campuses have entered into a four-year partnership with Nike through BSN Sports for sports apparel and equipment.
The retailing and sales industries have experienced seismic changes in recent years and an organization has been resurrected to help navigate the new landscape: The Council for Retail and Sales is back and now at the Penn State Lehigh Valley campus.
Cael Sanderson, Penn State's head wrestling coach, will be the special guest of the Lehigh Valley Chapter of the Penn State Alumni Association on July 28 at the Holiday Inn Conference Center in Breinigsville. The event will include a tailgate-style buffet and a silent auction. All proceeds will benefit the Penn State Lehigh Valley scholarship fund.
Penn State Lehigh Valley hosted its largest golf outing to date at its sixth annual golf tournament on June 4 at Northampton Country Club in Easton. In all, 110 golfers participated in support of student scholarships at the campus. The event raised enough money to endow the newly established Penn State Lehigh Valley Golf Tournament Open Doors Scholarship.
The Lehigh Valley Writing Project will offer a specialist certificate in teaching writing and literacy for educators from all content areas this fall. The 15-credit postbaccalaureate program is designed to afford educators deep study in all aspects of teaching literacy.
In an effort to consolidate multiple external food service contracts at seven of its Commonwealth Campuses, Penn State has awarded Metz Culinary Management a three-year food services contract to serve those locations.
