Seven incoming 宾州州立银行 students were awarded a scholarship to study engineering through the campus' Leveraging Innovation and Optimizing Nurturing (LION) STEM Scholars Program. 这个项目, funded through a National Science Foundation grant, is in its second year and provides support in the form of a four-year, 可再生6美元,250 scholarship to talented engineering students with demonstrated financial need.
First-year engineering students at 宾州州立银行 put their problem-solving skills to the test when they were tasked with designing and constructing escape room puzzles for their engineering design introductory course.
宾州州立银行 celebrated the 23nd anniversary of its 有数学选择的职业 Conference on May 9. A record total of 188 seventh grade students and 24 chaperones from 13 schools around the Berks County area attended the day-long event. The mission of the event is to generate excitement for STEM topics early in young female students’ education.
Two 宾州州立银行 students received an honorable mention at the Mid-Atlantic Ecological Society of America (ESA) Annual Meeting, which was held from March 31 to April 2 at the University of Delaware. 艾琳Horack, 生物技术专业二年级学生, 和广荣路, 生物专业二年级学生, 介绍了他们的研究, titled “Antibiotic-Resistant Gene Expression in Water Quality Indicators, 大肠杆菌, 和Enterococci, Extracted from the Delaware River Basin.”
Two 宾州州立银行 students took first place in the fourth Women in Engineering Design Competition at Penn State Altoona earlier this month. 莉莉·莫恩, 机械工程专业, 和珍妮丝·斯特朗, 计算机工程专业, 获得了3美元的现金奖励,为他们的努力.
夏娃吉布斯, a senior biochemistry and molecular biology major and chemistry minor at 宾州州立银行, is well on her way to an exciting career in science research. 刚刚过去的这个夏天, she completed an internship with the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases. 春季学期结束后, she will spend the summer working at the National Institute of Health through their Undergraduate Scholarship Program.
The 10th annual 宾州州立银行 Losoncy Lecture in Physics and Astronomy will be presented by Rosi里德, associate professor of physics at Lehigh University. Reed will present “A Recipe for Quark Soup: Understanding the Primordial Broth at the Beginning of the Universe” on Wednesday, 4月5日. This event is free and open to the public.
作为创业周的一部分, 弗莱明创造力, 创业, and Economic Development Center at 宾州州立银行 will host a webinar discussing the success of its Customer Discovery Lab, which connects budding entrepreneurs with mentors. The March 20 webinar will include students and mentors from two startups: GroupIt LLC and Streamline Charging LLC. 需要提前登记.
The challenges of the coronavirus pandemic led two Penn State professors — one at 宾州州立银行 and the other at Penn State College of Medicine — to collaborate on ideas for how health care facilities could be redesigned to provide optimal, resilient care during pandemics and other situations with mass casualties.
A presentation on bias and fairness issues in AI will be delivered by Tommaso Giovannelli, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Lehigh University, 2月. 20.
