The July meeting of the Penn State Board of Trustees is now available from WPSU at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ij-s5KWmZrU. The trustees met on July 22 at the Nesbitt Academic Commons on the Wilkes-Barre campus, in Lehman, Pennsylvania.
Penn State Wilkes-Barre Chancellor Charles H. Davis offered an overview of the campus’ 100 years of history as a community partner in the Wyoming Valley and shared the formula for future successes with the University’s Board of Trustees, as part of the board’s regular summer meeting.
Penn State Children’s Hospital was recently selected to serve central and northeast Pennsylvania as a partner in a new PA HealthChoices program, called the Telephonic Psychiatric Services Program, or TiPS. The Children’s Hospital will offer peer-to-peer child psychiatry consultation teams to primary care providers (PCPs), medical specialists and other prescribers of psychotropic medications for children.
The annual Penn State Wilkes-Barre alumni TV tailgate party will take place Sept. 24 at River Grille in Wilkes-Barre when Penn State takes on Michigan.
Students who are new to Penn State and all students living in University housing are reminded that they must submit their immunization records using myUHS through a new three-step process. As part of this process, students who do not submit their immunization records prior to Sept. 15 will be unable to register for spring 2017 classes.
Penn State student-athletes earned two medals during the opening week of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janiero, Brazil, and nine Nittany Lions will be seeking similar success during the final week of competition.
Penn State student-athletes have shined during the opening week of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Eleven Nittany Lions across seven teams have competed thus far, with four more set to begin action next week, as well as one former student-athlete who is coaching. Former Nittany Lion fencing All-American Miles Chamley-Watson earned the 30th Olympic medal by a Penn State student-athlete, as he helped the United States men’s foil team win the bronze medal Friday (Aug. 12).
Chancellor Charles Davis has announced the addition of new faculty and campus advisory board members to Penn State Wilkes-Barre for the 2016-17 academic year.
In cooperation with the Penn State University Department of Police & Public Safety, Penn State Wilkes-Barre Continuing Education will offer Rape Aggression Defense (R.A.D.) System this fall.
