Campus recipient for the 2020 Excellence in Diversity, Dr. Ray Petren, assistant professor of Human Development and Family Studies (right), pictured with Chancellor Marwan Wafa during the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day commemoration and awards luncheon on January 20, 2020.
Recipient for the 2020 Excellence in Diversity Community Award, Glynnis Johns, The Black Scranton Project (right), pictured with Chancellor Marwan Wafa during the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day commemoration and awards luncheon on January 20, 2020.
The campus recently added three new employees: Angela Bassani, CPA, MBA, lecturer in accounting; Kate Lafferty-Danner, Writing Center coordinator; and Josh McAuliffe, marketing communications specialist.
Bernie McGurl, co-founding member and Executive Director of the Lackawanna River Conservation Association, will give a presentation on 'Conservation in a Post-Industrial Landscape: A Pragmatist's Approach' at the Penn State Eastern Regional Undergraduate Research Symposium on April 23, 2020.
Seamus McGraw is the author of a few books, including the critically acclaimed The End of Country: Dispatches from the Frack Zone, Betting the Farm on a Drought: Stories from the Front Line of Climate Change and A Thirsty Land: The Making of an American Water Crisis. His latest book, tentatively titled From a Taller Tower, an examination of fifty years of gun violence in America, to be released later this year from The University of Texas Press.
The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins take on the Bridgeport Sound Tigers on March 7. Tickets are available for $17.50 through the Hazleton, Schuylkill, Wilkes-Barre and Scranton chapters of the Penn State Alumni Association, which are sponsoring the event.
Eric Linde, third from left, talks to Linde Mentoring Program mentors at a past event. From left, Penn State Scranton adjunct instructor Yomi Ojo, Vincent Sorgi, president and chief operating officer of PPL Corporation, Linde, and program mentee Sean Tossi.
John Drake, left, director of the campus' Center for Business Development and Community Outreach and an adjunct lecturer in business, chats with Eric Linde in the Management 301 course taught by Drake last semester.
