Yili Lian, assistant professor of business at Penn State Worthington Scranton, presented his research paper, “Financial Distress and Customer-Supplier Relationships" at the 29th Australasian Finance and Banking Conference in Sydney, Australia in December. The paper studies the role of customer-supplier relationships on suppliers’ financial distress. It was recently accepted by the Journal of Corporate Finance.
More than 30 Penn State Worthington Scranton students majoring in Information Sciences and Technology (IST) recently traveled to Penn State's University Park campus for the annual IST Future Forum, hosted by the University’s College of IST.
Penn State Worthington Scranton's first "Diversity Talk: My Life, My Story" seminar, featuring the life stories of two campus students, will take place at 3 p.m. on Feb. 8 in The View Café. It is the first of a two-part series this semester.
Penn State Nittany Lions Recruiting Night, an annual event hosted by the Greater Scranton Penn State Chapter, will be held on Friday, February 3 at 7 pm in the Penn State Worthington Scranton Study Learning Center's View Cafe, Dunmore.
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.
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.
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.
It's been part of the campus for decades and on Jan. 12, Penn State Worthington Scranton held a ribbon-cutting to celebrate the renovation of the K. Bruce Sherbine Lounge into a modern, functional space, and brought back its namesake — former director of academic affairs K. Bruce Sherbine — to participate in the ribbon-cutting.
