Darla Lattimer, a third-year nursing student in the Ross and Carol Nese College of Nursing at Penn State Scranton and an English minor, has been awarded a $2,000 Student Engagement Network Grant for the spring 2024 semester.
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.
Natalie Faybisovich, a fourth-year undergraduate student pursuing a nursing degree at the Ross and Carol Nese College of Nursing at Penn State Scranton, has co-authored a manuscript focusing on home health care. Her involvement in this research endeavor has been a transformative experience, she said.
Penn State Scranton Chancellor Marwan Wafa has announced that Enrollment Services Specialist Nick Tomaskovic has been named the campus’ Employee of the Month for March.
Students looking for an internship or a job after graduation will have an opportunity to meet and speak with a variety of regional employers at the campus’ second annual Internship and Job Fair being held on campus this Thursday, Feb. 29.
A new initiative by the Penn State Scranton’s library staff hopes to encourage more campus engagement with the library — and more reading — by “carting” materials from the library directly to students, faculty and staff.
The Penn State Scranton community has learned which students will be representing the campus as its THON 2024 dancers during THON Weekend, set for Feb. 16-18 at University Park’s Bryce Jordan Center. Abigal Gaebel, Mahek Gandhi and Ashley Torres will join thousands of other Penn State students in the grueling, yet life-changing, 46-hour, no sitting, no sleeping dance marathon that raises money for the Four Diamonds Fund and children battling pediatric cancer.
Students at Penn State Scranton now have a new resource to help them gain important financial literacy skills thanks to Penn State’s Sokolov-Miller Family Financial and Life Skills Center. A financial resources information kiosk has been set up in the admissions office in Dawson 5 and is available Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Asif ud-Doula, associate professor of physics at Penn State Scranton, will deliver the annual Mylar Giri lecture at Penn State Hazleton at 12:20 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 28, in Room 001 of the Kostos Building. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Penn State Scranton's Human Development and Family Studies program now has its own honor society on campus, Kappa Omicron Nu (KON), and seven newly inducted members and officers.