Students in the Gardening Club have harvested a variety of fresh vegetables that included beans, several varieties of tomatoes, basil, mint and fresh flowers that were grown in the campus greenhouse and garden area.
This gorgeous basket of vine-ripened beefsteak and heirloom red tomatoes was only a small part of this season's tomato harvest at Penn State Scranton.
Members of the campus Gardening Club started vegetable, herb and flowering plants from seedlings inside the greenhouse on campus and then transferred them to the outside garden at the start of the spring growing season.
Business Building: Penn State Scranton's Business Building was constructed with sustainability in mind. It is LEED-NC certified (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design — New Construction), which is a designation for high-performance green buildings. This certification is given to new commercial and institutional buildings that meet specific criteria to create healthy, efficient and cost-effective structures.
Penn State Scranton's Student Services and Engagement office, along with the campus' Gardening Club, established an apiary on campus. Here, a close-up of our newest, honey-producing residents. The hope is that in 18 to 24 months, honey can be harvested from the hives, which could be sold to help with the campus' THON fundraising efforts.
This spring, Penn State Scranton joined Penn State's Commonwealth Arboreta Network, which promotes the University's land-grant mission of teaching research and community service by utilizing the rich resources of the ecosystem of trees and grounds across the Commonwealth at our campuses. A team visited our campus to create an inventory of tree species on campus by documenting and tagging each tree on campus.
The Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences Symposium featured a number of panels at this year's event. The "Transformative Research: Harnessing AI for Impact" panel discussed how artificial intelligence can be used across different disciplines to generate game-changing discoveries. From left are Guido Cervone, ICDS director; Farnaz Tehranchi, assistant professor of engineering design and innovation; Christelle Wauthier, ICDS co-hire and associate professor of geosciences; Ellen "Wenting" Zou, ICDS co-hire and assistant professor of education; and Helen Greatrex, ICDS co-hire and assistant professor of geography and statistics.
The "Beyond Simulation: The Future of Digital Twins in Health, Design, and Society" panel at the Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences Symposium featured four Penn State experts talking digital twin applications, impact and challenges. From left are Jessica Menold, director of the Center for Immersive Experiences and associate professor of mechanical engineering and of industrial and manufacturing engineering; Vinciya Pandian, associate dean of graduate education and professor of nursing; Rebecca Napolitano, assistant professor of architectural engineering; Yuqing Hu, assistant professor of architectural engineering; and Scarlett Miller, director of the Cocoziello Institute for Real Estate Innovation and Paul Morrow Professor of Engineering Design and Manufacturing.
Kanishk Pandey, astronomy and astrophysics doctoral student, who presented “Finding Exoplanets using Hierarchical Clustering on Spectral Lines," won the first-place prize at this year's Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences Symposium poster session.
