The 19 interdisciplinary research teams that received funding include more than 75 researchers who are affiliated with 10 colleges and research units across seven Penn State campuses.
A new research program for students will be launched this coming fall: The Vice President for Commonwealth Campuses Undergraduate Student Research Fund aims to support student-led projects in different fields. Participants will acquire hands-on experience in research, scholarship, and artistic efforts. They will be responsible for creating their own research problems, study proposals, methodologies, and presenting their findings.
Students were hailed for embodying Penn State Abington’s core values of academic excellence, community engagement, diversity and inclusive excellence, and ethical learning.
Through working on his early stage undergraduate research project, Penn State Abington senior Dante Thomas is developing skills that are transferable to graduate school and a variety of careers.
Nearly 70 domestic and international students across multiple Penn State campuses, including Abington, Brandywine, Great Valley, Lehigh Valley and Schuylkill, joined together for a series of events about mass incarceration in the United States, including a visit to Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia.
Penn State Abington student received awards for outstanding merit during a reception for the Bertha Lear Annual Student Art Exhibition. The exhibition and one of the awards are supported by donors Robert A. Lear and his late wife, Marilyn; and Lois and Stanley Singer.
Penn State Abington student researchers delivered their well-practiced elevator pitches on April 12 at the annual ACURA (Abington College Undergraduate Research Activities) exhibition. About 60 students presented 31 projects, answering questions from faculty judges about the process and results.
A Penn State Abington expert in teaching English as a second language offered strategies to teachers so they can provide equity in language and content learning and social and emotional support to displaced Ukrainian children at a Philadelphia elementary school.