When 52-year-old Renee Gibson receives her long-awaited Penn State degree on May 4, her 22-year-old daughter Clare will be there — and she’ll be in her own cap and gown. Just a few hours before Renee receives her baccalaureate degree from the College of the Liberal Arts via Penn State World Campus, Clare will graduate from the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences with a degree in meteorology and atmospheric sciences with minors in climatology and geography.
From growing up on a farm to spending summers at a hay baling operation, Nathan Crotts has always liked spending time outside. He also enjoys math, he said, and found that Penn State Wilkes-Barre’s surveying engineering program would allow him to combine his interests and passions.
Penn State Wilkes-Barre is sharing information about its surveying engineering program and the career possibilities in the profession through presentations and career fairs at several high schools.
Penn State Wilkes-Barre hosted the Northeast Regional Science Olympiad on March 6, once again bringing hundreds of middle and high school students to the campus for the annual science competition.
Penn State Wilkes-Barre is offering numerous camps this summer for children and youth through its Office of Continuing Education. Two weeks of camp are offered, with Week 1 scheduled for June 24 to 28 and Week 2 set for July 8 to 12.
Dimitrios Bolkas, associate professor of surveying engineering at Penn State Wilkes-Barre, received a leadership award during an industry conference for his work with virtual reality. Bolkas, who is the coordinator of the surveying engineering program at the campus, was presented with the Younger Geospatial Professional award during the Geo Week conference in Denver, Colorado.
Penn State Wilkes-Barre and its LaunchBox are supporting entrepreneurship beginning at the high school level through programming and partnerships in the region. This year’s Teen Entrepreneurial Challenge includes five sessions of business mentoring and coaching, led by Penn State entrepreneurship educators and local small-business leaders.
Penn State’s Commonwealth Campuses and the state’s community colleges have announced a new collaboration aimed at expanding educational opportunities in Pennsylvania and removing barriers to degree completion among college students. The collaboration builds upon long-standing relationships between the campuses and the community colleges and a shared commitment to access and affordability in higher education.
Two faculty members from Penn State Wilkes-Barre conducted restorative justice training with members of the Wyoming and Sullivan County Juvenile Probation Departments, sharing the concepts of restorative justice and how it can benefit them in their work.
Penn State Wilkes-Barre has named 152 students to its fall 2023 Dean’s List. To be eligible, undergraduate students must achieve a one-semester grade point average of 3.5 or higher.
