Kara Stone, assistant teaching professor of English at Penn State Scranton, presented her research paper at the recent “Secrecy and Surveillance in Medieval and Early Modern England Conference,” hosted by the Swiss Association of Medieval and Early Modern English Studies.
Deborah Brandt Johnson, alumni and development specialist at Penn State Scranton, has been named the campus' Employee of the Month for December by Chancellor Marwan Wafa.
The Penn State Scranton Chorale, Roc[k]tet and Jazz Band will host a free Community Holiday Concert at 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 9, at Grace Bible Church, which is located adjacent to campus. The groups also will perform at the annual Campus Holiday Concert at noon on Wednesday, Dec. 5, in The View Café on campus.
Now entering its seventh year, #GivingTuesday, the global movement to create an international day of giving at the start of the holidays, will take place Nov. 27 -- and Penn State Scranton will be participating, along with the University. The campus is calling on its community of faculty, staff, students, parents, alumni, partners and friends to consider making a donation to Penn State Scranton, which will support the campus' Student Hardship Fund, also known as the Emergency Assistance Fund.
Researchers at Penn State Scranton, colleagues, have found in a study that heart rate reactivity is a biological moderator between peer victimization (bullying) and internalizing problems (anxiety/depression) in adolescent girls.
Kalei Kowalchik, a junior honors' nursing student, has received a Student Engagement Network grant that she will use to assess and educate patients with congestive heart failure. This is her third SEN award since becoming a student at Penn State Scranton.