Student Services Administrative Support Assistant Michele Nicoteri has been named the Penn State Worthington Scranton February Employee of the Month by Chancellor Marwan Wafa.
Administrators from Penn State and Northampton Community College (NCC) signed an articulation agreement to facilitate the transfer of NCC students into 11 baccalaureate degree programs at 14 Penn State campuses at an event on Jan. 18 at the Lehigh Valley campus.
Kristin Greene, acting head librarian at Penn State Worthington Scranton shows off some of the library's reference materials. However, students at PSWS have full access to all of the University Library system resources.
Penn State Worthington Scranton celebrated Martin Luther King Jr.'s memory by hosting a special diversity event on campus, featuring diversity-themed presentations and special break-out sessions aimed at getting students, staff, faculty and community members engaged in helping to increase diversity efforts and foster greater understanding of different cultures.
Penn State Worthington Scranton commemorated Martin Luther King Jr. Day with a special event at the campus that featured diversity-themed presentations, breakout sessions and the awarding of its 2017 Excellence in Diversity Awards. The Indian Student Association, pictured at left, with Multicultural Coordinator Martin Lacayo, left, and Chancellor Marwan Wafa. In the second photo is the community recipient, Cathy Hardaway, pictured with Wafa.
Kristen Greene, acting head librarian at Penn State Worthington Scranton, is on a mission to make all students aware of the resources available to them at the campus library. Students can access not only the materials housed in the campus library, but hundreds of databases with thousands of books, journals, and scholarly articles from across the University Library System.
Alan Peslak's paper, "Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining: Current State of the Art and Review of Google and Yahoo Search Engines' Privacy Policies," was recently named Best Paper at the 2016 EDSIG and CONISAR conferences and is scheduled for future publication in the Journal of Information Systems Applied Research.
Dr. Alan Peslak, professor of information sciences and technology at Penn State Worthington Scranton, recently received the Best Paper award at the international EDSIG and CONISAR conferences in Las Vegas.
Dr. Alan Peslak, professor of information sciences and technology at Penn State Worthington Scranton, recently received the Best Paper award at the international EDSIG and CONISAR conferences in Las Vegas.