Penn State Executive Vice President and Provost Nicholas P. Jones has shared a message updating the University community on steps being taken to monitor the evolving worldwide coronavirus outbreak and prepare for the safety and well-being of students, faculty, staff and visitors.
Former INTERPOL officer and current Penn State Schuylkill professor Hakan Can lives to give back. After retiring, Can saw an opportunity to conduct research and improve policing techniques by becoming an educator. Can recently was invited by the United Nation in Egypt to lead a workshop for police officers aimed at improving relations between police and international communities.
As students begin gearing up for their spring break travels, the University is reminding travelers to take precautions to stay healthy and avoid illnesses.
Penn State Schuylkill Chancellor Patrick M. Jones and his wife Karen Weiss Jones recently established an annually funded scholarship to provide support to full-time undergraduate students at Penn State Schuylkill.
On Feb. 3, all students, faculty and staff members at every Penn State campus location will receive an email to take the Penn State Community Survey to share their attitudes and experiences of community, diversity and inclusion at Penn State. Every 100 survey takers will have a chance to win an Amazon or Starbucks gift card.
As soon as he graduated, Nick Shugars took his Penn State degree to Los Angeles, where his savvy job search skills and hard work earned him a coveted job at Warner Bros. Entertainment.
A loyal Penn Stater through and through, Joe Gera wanted to give back to the place where it all began, and created the Joseph S. Gera Engineering Scholarship at Penn State Schuylkill.
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.
Incidences of bullying are higher among high-school students living in rural areas than in urban areas, according to three Penn State Schuylkill undergraduate students, who also found that bullied students in rural areas are more likely to skip class and school activities than their urban counterparts. They presented their research at the American Society of Criminology’s annual meeting held in San Francisco in November.
