Michael M. Evans, assistant dean for undergraduate nursing education at the Commonwealth Campuses and associate teaching professor of nursing in Penn State University’s College of Nursing, has been named the Penn State Scranton Alumni Society’s 2019 Alumnus of the Year. Evans will be honored Thursday, Feb. 20, at a special reception beginning at 7 p.m. in the campus’ K. Bruce Sherbine Lounge, in the Study Learning Center.
Penn State Scranton continued its commitment to bolstering the technological capabilities of its faculty at the campus’ sixth annual Faculty Development Day. Held earlier this month in the campus' new Information Sciences and Technology Active Learning and Innovation Lab, the program featured three presentations geared around evolving technologies now available to faculty.
Penn State Go, the official all-in-one mobile app, is available to download in the Google Play Store and Apple App Store. Penn State Go delivers single sign-on access to features including Canvas, Penn State email, shuttle bus tracking, campus maps, grades, class schedules, tuition bills via LionPATH, LionCash+, library services, Starfish academic advising, and more.
Penn State Scranton will celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day with its fifth annual MLK Day Luncheon and Excellence in Diversity Awards ceremony at 11 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 20, in The View Cafe, followed by a day of service.
Continuing their longtime commitment to Penn State Scranton, campus alumni David and Ann Hawk have established the Hawk Family Foundation Open Doors Scholarship for students participating in the RaiseMe, Pathway to Success: Summer Start (PaSSS) or Complete Penn State programs.
Penn State Scranton has added three community leaders to its Advisory Board and elected a new chair and vice chair, Chancellor Marwan Wafa announced. New members are Michael Rescigno, Nancy Sarno de los Rios and Jahan Tabatabaie.
The Penn State Scranton Alumni Society and the Greater Scranton Chapter of the Penn State Alumni Association were both lauded for their good works at the Penn State Alumni Association’s annual Fall Alumni Council Volunteer Awards banquet.
The Human Development and Family Studies Community Club at Penn State Scranton hosted its third and final Educational Awareness Luncheon with a special presentation on dementia and Alzheimer’s disease by Janet Melnick, HDFS program coordinator and associate teaching professor in HDFS. The presentation, given last month, was to commemorate National Alzheimer's Disease Month.
