Jacqueline McLaughlin, Ph.D., associate professor of biology at Penn State Lehigh Valley and founding director of Penn State CHANCE, has been selected to participate in national incubator project entitled: Next Generation Careers: Innovation in Environmental Biology Education. About 40 representatives from academia, private sector, government and non-governmental organizations were invited to seed a new network to support workforce development for college graduate career progression into environmental biology, including fields such as ecology, evolution, conservation, plant biology and natural resource management. A kick-off workshop will be held from October 17-19, 2016 at the Maritime Institute (CCMIT) in Linthicum, MD conference center. This workshop is made possible by a grant from the National Science Foundation under the direction of the Society of Conservation Biology(SCB) and the Ecological Society of America (ESA).
State Rep. Steve Samuelson sent an official Pennsylvania House citation for Peter Behrens, assistant professor of psychology and psychology program coordinator at Penn State Lehigh Valley, honoring him on his retirement. Rosemary Hensel, left, Samuelson's legislative assistant, presented the citation to Behrens on Sept. 27 at his retirement celebration at Green Pond Country Club in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Each year, Penn State honors several members of its faculty and staff for the highest levels of academic excellence, outstanding leadership and meritorious service. The 2015 Faculty/Staff Award recipients — 33 outstanding University employees and one program — reach across campuses, colleges and administrative units and exemplify best practices and achievements among Penn Staters reflecting the University's mission of teaching, research and service.
Lehigh Valley professor Barbara Cantalupo and DuBois Professor Emeritus Richard Kopley are notable Edgar Allan Poe scholars, longtime colleagues and friends. Their most recent collaboration, the fourth International Edgar Allan Poe Conference, was more than two years in the making.
Barbara Cantalupo (left) and Richard Kopley at the Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan. The hotel is the site of the fourth International Edgar Allan Poe Conference, which the longtime colleagues and friends teamed up to chair.
Penn State Lehigh Valley Associate Professor Barbara Cantalupo is the editor of the Edgar Allan Poe Review, a scholarly journal dedicated to the American author's life and work.
Penn State Lehigh Valley will welcome the University's 2013-2014 Laureate, Kenneth Womack, for a special presentation at 7 p.m. on April 10 in room 135. Womack, a professor and dean of academic affairs at Penn State Altoona, will deliver a multimedia presentation, "From Work to Text: The Beatles' 'A Day in the Life.'"
