Community leaders and scientists shared breakfast and sought solutions to problems like opioids, obesity and depression June 6 at the Community-Engaged Research Day.
Penn State Scranton hosted the annual Student Ambassador Program, a legislative competition featuring high school seniors from Sen. John Blake's 22nd Senatorial District. During the event, Blake presented Chancellor Marwan Wafa with an official Pennsylvania Senate citation commemorating the campus' 50th anniversary.
At this year's annual meeting of the Academy of Management, set for Aug. 9-13 in Boston, Penn State Scranton Assistant Professor of Business Jiexin Wang will co-chair a symposium titled "Understanding Consequences of Workaholism: Mechanisms, Boundary Condition, and Cross-Level Effects.”
Paul Frisch, lecturer in history, arts and humanities, delved into medieval English history for the final Lunch and Learn lecture of Penn State Scranton’s spring semester. His talk, “The Wonderful and Merciless Parliaments: Or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned About Medieval Treason,” was a colorful recounting of Parliament’s activities in 14th-century England.
From July 22 to Aug. 9, Penn State Scranton's Center for Business Development and Community Outreach will offer its English Language Development Summer College Preparedness Program to high school students or graduates whose primary language is other than English.
This spring, Penn State Scranton information sciences and technology students Dylan Webb, Jeff Panetti, Dorian Anderson and John Martin designed the Lackawanna Housing Coalition’s website as a project for the IST 440W capstone course taught by Alan Peslak, professor of IST.
Griff Lewis, instructional designer at Penn State Scranton, was one of 47 University faculty and staff who gave presentations to more than 270 attendees at both Canvas Day and the Teaching and Learning with Technology Symposium at University Park this year.
The Penn State Scranton Alumni Society furthered its commitment to the campus through its recent establishment of a $30,000 Open Doors Scholarship for deserving campus students.
Penn State Scranton Chancellor Marwan Wafa has announced that Jonathan Tobin, coordinator of career services, is the campus' Employee of the Month for June.
Several representatives from Penn State Scranton’s nursing program recently presented their research at the inaugural University Park Medical Campus Research Symposium.
