Undergraduate Research Committee and IT department members worked to convert this year's Undergraduate Research Fair and Exhibition to an all-virtual format so that the event could still take place despite the COVID-19 outbreak and the "stay-at-home" restrictions currently in place across the state.
Last spring, Penn State awarded a record-breaking 83 Erickson Discovery Grants to undergraduate students engaged in original research projects after receiving another record-breaking 219 applicants
Dr. Renee Bishop-Pierce has received seed money from Penn State and the University of Split, in Croatia, to create a long-term, self-supporting sustainable research collaboration on the impact of subterranean groundwater discharge on coastal ecosystems in Croatia. She leaves in May to continue the research she began in 2012.
