Deyu Pan and Rebecca Sarver have joined the faculty at Penn State Wilkes-Barre, Chancellor Dale Jones announced. Pan has been named assistant professor in rehabilitation and human services (RHS), and Sarver has been hired as assistant teaching professor in criminal justice and criminal justice program coordinator.
Penn State ranked 38th among all large U.S. employers — public, private and nonprofit — for new college graduates entering the workforce, according to a recent Forbes survey.
A Penn State Wilkes-Barre professor has written a book that analyzes the hit television series “Columbo” and the investigative methods of its main character. Christyne Berzsenyi, professor of English and coordinator of the associate degree program in Letters, Arts, and Sciences, authored “Columbo: A Rhetoric of Inquiry with Resistant Responders.” The book is scheduled for release on July 16.
A team of students in Penn State Wilkes-Barre’s surveying engineering program has had the opportunity to pair their learning with a project at the Francis E. Walter Dam in Bear Creek Township.
Penn State Wilkes-Barre this year held its Celebration of Scholarship undergraduate research fair in a virtual format. The celebration is an opportunity for Wilkes-Barre faculty and students to showcase their current research, scholarship and artistic endeavors. All posters and video presentations can be viewed online.
Students in a Penn State Wilkes-Barre criminology class had a special opportunity to hear from David Witwer, 2020-21 Penn State Laureate and professor of American studies in Penn State Harrisburg’s School of Humanities, regarding his research on corruption, organized crime, labor racketeering and the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa in 1975.
Researchers whose work addresses natural and cultural resource management topics can learn about partnering opportunities with federal agencies at the Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Units Program Workshop on March 30.
Penn State is planning a phased return over the summer semester to a full on-campus learning environment for fall 2021. The University’s priorities continue to be the health and well-being of its students, faculty, staff and local communities, and the plans for expanded in-person classes have the flexibility built in to quickly respond to changing pandemic conditions, if necessary.
