At the end of the spring 2023 semester, six Penn State Commonwealth Campuses named faculty members as Open Champions, recognizing their work with open education in the second year of Penn State’s Open and Affordable Educational Resources (OAER) Champion Awards. A collaboration between Penn State University Libraries and the University-wide OAER Working Group, the OAER Champion Award began as a pilot initiative in 2022 and seeks to recognize excellence, innovation and impact in open educational practices at Penn State campuses.
Vanessa Sexton, a recent Penn State Abington graduate who is now enrolled in the MBA program at Penn State Great Valley, is quickly advancing in her career thanks to the diverse and marketable curriculum that is only available through Abington's customizable integrative arts major.
More than two-thirds of children experience at least one traumatic event by the age of 16, which impacts all aspects of their development, according to a licensed professional counselor who led one of a series of workshops designed to provide teachers with strategies to provide improved outcomes for these children. The workshops are designed and offered by Penn State Abington Continuing Education.
The technical knowledge and soft skills Penn State Abington engineering students master quickly leads to employment after graduation. New alumnus Clifford Dennis said rigorous academics, the required capstone course and summer internship, and relationships with faculty are keys to success.
Eva Klein, who supports student success as director of academic services at Penn State Abington, has collected almost 500 Barbie dolls. Growing up, she said, her own dolls were professional women, and she thinks people should reconsider how Barbie's creator revolutionized the toy industry's impact on women.
Friederike Baer, an associate professor of history at Penn State Abington, was honored with the Society of the Cincinnati Prize for advancing understanding of the American Revolution and its legacy through her book “Hessians: German Soldiers in the American Revolutionary War.”
As part of our regular “We Are!” feature, we recognize nine Penn Staters who have gone above and beyond what’s asked of them in their work at the University.
Penn State Abington is putting out a call to members of the community to share their stories in "This Is My Brave," a performance piece designed to reduce the stigma surrounding issues such as substance use, mental health, human trafficking, domestic violence and other challenges.
Alberlin Del Orbe Rodriguez supports prospective Penn State Abington students and their loved ones, many of whom who face the same challenges and concerns she did as a first-generation college student.
