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.
Penn State Lehigh Valley criminal justice students visited county coroner office, where they took a tour, met staff and had the option to observe an autopsy.
Health policy and administration course teaches students the basics of research and provides the opportunity for students to explore research-based careers.
K-12 educators interested in learning more about artificial intelligence (AI) as it relates to student learning will find a wealth of information — and how to apply it in a classroom setting — in a new course through the Lehigh Valley Writing Project at Penn State Lehigh Valley.
The Blue and White Society at Penn State Lehigh Valley is teaming up with Meals on Wheels of the Lehigh Valley by collecting food items for emergency packages. Shelf-stable items will be accepted until Feb. 9 in the Alumni Office, Room 148, at the Lehigh Valley campus.
The last week of February 2024 still offers a few events across campuses for Black History Month, including at Penn State Brandywine, Harrisburg, Dickinson Law, Lehigh Valley, Shenango, and York. In addition, several exhibits are still available to visitors at Penn State University Park, Brandywine and Harrisburg.
A Penn State Lehigh Valley professor and her students are collaborating with a university in Serbia to bring a better understanding of disability studies to a broader audience.
Like many Penn State Lehigh Valley students, Muhammad Shivji seized academic opportunities over winter break; but unlike the typical internship or career shadow, Shivji's pursuit required a passport. The third year biobehavioral health (BBH) student at Penn State Lehigh Valley used his semester gap to gain first-hand experience in the medical field in Tanzania, Africa.
The ferocious Tyrannosaurus rex lived between approximately 68 to 66 million years ago, but a team of researchers that includes a Penn State Lehigh Valley professor has identified a new species of Tyrannosaurus that dates back even further — essentially an ancestor of the fearsomely named "tyrant lizard king.” They published their finding in Scientific Reports.
