Penn State alumni representing four northeast regional campuses will be offering “A Night of Penn State Jazz” at the Alice C. Wiltsie Performing Arts Center, 700 North Wyoming Street, Hazleton, on Sunday, Oct. 21. The concert, featuring Penn State’s Centre Dimensions jazz ensemble, will begin at 7:30 p.m. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. for general seating.
Penn State Scranton Chancellor Marwan Wafa has announced that Emily Glodzik, a financial assistant in the campus Bursar's Office, is the October Employee of the Month.
On Wednesday, Penn State Scranton held an Open House for its refurbished Veterans Lounge, located in the lower level of the campus library. The event was was attended by veteran students, faculty and staff.
Tom Eveland, an adjunct lecturer in science at Penn State Scranton, recently published “The Hunt for Tyrannus Arachnis, The Earth’s Largest Ancient Spider.” The 50-page, seven-chapter science tome was designed as a supplemental guide for science classes from high school through college and aims to show students how science and scientists work.
Penn State Scranton will host its first-ever Banned Books Read Out on Tuesday, Sept. 25 as a way of celebrating Banned Books Week 2018 and honoring the American Library Association’s commitment to intellectual freedom. The event will begin at 12:15 p.m. in the campus library and feature members of the campus community reading excerpts from books that have been threatened for removal, and in some cases actually removed, from libraries across the nation.
The 2018-19 Penn State University Laureate, John Champagne, will speak at Penn State Scranton during a presentation that is free and open to the public on Thursday, Sept. 27. The name of the presentation is: “Art & Politics – The Case of Corrado Cagli.”
Members of the Penn State and local communities are invited to celebrate Constitution Day with on-campus events at University Park on Monday, Sept. 17, as well as activities at a number of Penn State campuses.
Nick Fiels, a business major at Penn State Scranton and a student worker in Penn State Scranton's Academic Affairs department, has been awarded the Fall 2018 Chancellor Service Award.
Penn State Scranton Associate Professor of Biology Renee Bishop-Pierce has been working on a collaborative project with colleagues at the University of Split, in Croatia. A grant from the University's Global Program’s Split-PSU Collaboration funds is helping to establish a research program that examines the impacts of microplastics on the aquaculture industry and human consumption.
