Just in time for Veterans Day, Penn State Scranton will play host to a traveling exhibit that pays homage to University athletes who bravely served their country during World War I.
Last week, Robert Thomas, owner of Taylor-based Tsunami Self-Defense Systems, and his head instructor, Rebecca van der Meer, gave their first of two self-defense classes for the campus community.
Robert Scheller has been promoted to the position of information resources and services support specialist at the Penn State Scranton Library. In his new role, he has several supervisory functions, among them managing the circulation desk, overseeing the student workers, and ordering and cataloging course reserve materials for faculty. In addition, he assists Head Librarian Jennie Knies with special projects.
Penn State Scranton and Wilkes University’s collaborative Family Business Alliance continues to offer a wide range of unique and thought-provoking programming for local businesses, professionals, students and the community at large.
Accounts of the horrors of World War II tend to be told mostly from the soldier’s perspective. But the Penn State Scranton campus community was recently treated to compelling firsthand testimony from another important voice – the children of war.
Penn State Scranton’s Human Development and Family Studies (HDFS) Community Club continued its slate of informative fall semester programming with a presentation centered around the grim yet all-too-relevant topic of domestic violence.
William J. Doan, the current Penn State Laureate, brought his highly compelling “Anxiety Project” to Penn State Scranton on Thursday, Oct. 24. In front of a standing-room-only crowd of students, faculty and staff, Doan provided honest, intelligent, deeply poignant and often humorous insights into his lifelong struggle with anxiety and depression.
Tara Marta, who graduated from the campus in 2015 with a bachelor’s degree in English, has been selected to take part in the upcoming Writers’ Showcase Fall Edition at Scranton’s Old Brick Theatre on Nov. 16.
Penn State Scranton's Community Events Series will host the educational program, “The Urgency of Now: What the Penn State Community Should Know About the 2020 Census,” from 6 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 19, in the Sherbine Lounge. The event is free and open to the public.
