The John E. Morgan Foundation has generously presented a $1.5 million challenge match to help Penn State Schuylkill facilitate instruction in science, technology, engineering, and math-related (STEM) fields and provide financial assistance to students who wish to pursue a degree in a STEM-related major. The match is a donation that will be fully realized once the campus has successfully raised an equal amount of donations from alumni and friends of the campus, and must be met by the year 2020.
Dr. Darcy Medica, interim director of Academic Affairs and associate professor of biology, has been named director of Academic Affairs (DAA) at Penn State Schuylkill, effective Feb. 1. Dr. Medica has been serving as the interim director of Academic Affairs since her appointment to the position Oct. 1, 2014.
Several students at the Schuylkill Haven Area High School had the opportunity this past fall semester to participate in a college-level course when Dr. Charlie Law, assistant professor of psychology at Penn State Schuylkill, came to their classroom three times a week to teach Introduction to Psychology.
On Dec. 9 at 5:30 p.m. in the John E. Morgan Auditorium, Penn State Schuylkill faculty and honors students and PA State Rep. Michael G. Tobash will host a panel discussion of historical background, current situations, and their side effects in the context of worldwide terror and ISIS/ISIL, Middle Eastern ethnic identity, Syrian refugees, and their coming to the United States.
Members of the panel include:
Moderator
Dr. Charles Cantalupo
As electricity arced through the air, excited Mahanoy Area Middle School students reached for their phones, snapping pictures in the darkened physics lab at Penn State Schuylkill. Dr. Michael Gallis, associate professor of physics, had the full attention of the students as he challenged them to explore what they know about electricity during his presentation titled, "It's Electric." Dr. Gallis' program was one of four different sessions that was held during the Schuylkill ACHIEVE'S STEM Saturday, Nov. 7.
Penn State Schuylkill announced today that it has been designated a 2016 Military Friendly® School for the fourth consecutive year by Victory Media, the leader in successfully connecting the military and civilian worlds.
The community at Penn State Schuylkill created a garden this past summer with funding received in 2014 from the Penn State Sustainability Institute Reinvention Fund, the Vice President for Commonwealth Campuses, and the Campus Research and Scholarship Award from the Schuylkill Campus Advisory Board. The garden, part of the campus sustainability program Envision, Plan, Implement, Change, Sustain (EPICS), is available for campus and public use.
In the dating game, jealousy is a natural emotion, right? Cory Scherer would argue it's different for various sectors of the population, and he's done the research to prove it.
Cory Scherer, an associate professor of psychology at Penn State Schuylkill, has conducted evolutionary-based research on sex differences in jealousy with regard to emotional versus sexual infidelity. He will discuss this research and present findings on why widowers are at an advantage with regard to dating when the Colloquium Series in Psychological Sciences and Human Behavior returns to Penn State Behrend Oct. 21.
