Honors faculty and students listen to Charles Cantalupo, Distinguished Professor of English, Comparative Literature and African studies, and chairman of the Honors Council, as he challenged honors students and honors faculty alike to recognize that, “Research and creativity go together. Scholarly accomplishments require both. They are honors values, Penn State values and life-long learning values."
Co-coordinators for the 2016-17 Penn State Schuylkill Honors Program, Michael Gallis, associate professor of physics, and Valerie Schrader, associate professor of communications, introduced members of the Honors Society's executive committee.
Old Main's bell — its chimes long replaced by modern technology — was removed and restored as a gift of Penn State’s class of 2009, and is now displayed outdoors at ground level near Old Main’s southwest corner.
Enrique Gomez, Ralph Colby and Scott Milner are working to design the molecular structures of conducting polymers for applications in flexible electronics. The work is focused on predicting fundamental polymeric properties, such as the stiffness of the polymer chain and other physical and chemical properties.
