Jennie Levine Knies, associate dean for Commonwealth Campus Libraries and head librarian for the Scranton Campus Library at Penn State Scranton, has received the Distinguished Service Award from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC). MARAC is a nonprofit, volunteer-run association of archivists and cultural heritage professionals throughout the mid-Atlantic region whose work is centered on the administration, preservation, and use of archival records and related historical research materials.
State Representative Bridget Malloy Kosierowski was commencement speaker at the 55th Penn State Scranton commencement ceremony on May 6 at the Scranton Cultural Center in downtown Scranton.
Members of the Penn State Scranton Class of 2023 Nicholas Sherman, Molly Morgan, Deymeliz Desarden-Ruperto, Carlos Salazar Paz, and Tanner Begin pose before the start of the 55th commencement ceremony at the Scranton Cultural Center in downtown Scranton on May 6, 2023.
Graduates of the Penn State Scranton Class of 2023 include the campus’ first class of Mechanical Engineering degree candidates pictured here with engineering faculty and Chancellor Marwan Wafa at the Scranton Cultural Center in downtown Scranton on May 6, 2023.
Penn State Scranton Chancellor Marwan A. Wafa, Ph.D. pictured with Madison Tricarico, an English graduate, who received the Chancellor’s Scholar Award and addressed the Class of 2023 at the 55th commencement ceremony at the Scranton Cultural Center in downtown Scranton on May 6, 2023.
Assistant Professor of Philosophy Dr. Todd Adams; Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Dr. Abraham S. Tchako; Assistant Teaching Professor of Accounting Angela Bassani, Ed.D.; Assistant Teaching Professor of Engineering Mostafa Tossi, M.S., P.E.; Assistant Professor of Psychology; Lecturer in Art Corianne Thompson, M.A.T., and Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies Dr. Parminder Parmar, Ph.D., served as faculty marshal at the 55th commencement at the Scranton Cultural Center in downtown Scranton on May 6, 2023.
Two Penn State Scranton students who work in the campus' Writing Center as peer tutors attended this year's Mid-Atlantic Writing Conference at Bryn Mawr College. Posing for a photo in front of the conference building are, from left: Assistant Teaching Professor of English Jody Griffith, Writing Center Coordinator Jaime Mosher, second-year nursing student and peer tutor Jemya Wilson, and fourth-year English student Madison Tricarico.
Looking to help further expand the knowledge and skillsets of peer writing tutors at Penn State Scranton, Assistant Teaching Professor of English Jody Griffith and Writing Center Coordinator Jaime Mosher took two of them the two-day Mid-Atlantic Writing Center Associations (MAWCA) conference at Bryn Mawr College earlier this semester.
