Julie Barone, a Fall 2009 graduate of Penn State Wilkes-Barre with a B.S. in Administration of Justice, shares her story of working as an intern with the United States Fire Administration in Emmitsburg, Md.:
Dr. Theodora Jankowski, English professor and Director of Academic Affairs at Penn State Wilkes-Barre, recently traveled to UCLA to participate in the Andrew W. Mellon/Sawyer Seminar Series "Homosexualities, from Antiquity to the Present."
The United States Collegiate Athletic Association (USCAA) recently named the 2009 All-American and All-Academic players. Two members of Penn State Wilkes-Barre's Men's Basketball Team received honors at a banquet held Tuesday, March 2:
Michael Buczkowski, a junior guard from Philadelphia was named to the Division 2 All-Academic Team while Frank Peters, a sophomore forward also out of Philadelphia, earned Division 2 All-American Honorable Mention recognition.
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March 2010 marks a very busy time for the Penn State Wilkes-Barre campus, not only with our own students, but with area junior and senior high school students. In the coming weeks, Penn State Wilkes-Barre will host several competitions in the subjects of engineering, science, and history, bringing the area's best and brightest middle and high school students to the campus:
Hard work and dedication seldom go unnoticed in life. Such is often the case in competitive athletics as well, a lesson not lost on this year's Penn State Wilkes-Barre Men's Basketball Team: early Wednesday afternoon, February 24, the Mountain Lions were officially extended an invitation to compete in this year's United States Colligate Athletic Association's (USCAA) National Championship Tournament.
With Marcellus shale becoming an increasingly prominent topic, Penn State Wilkes-Barre and Penn State Cooperative Extension are working together to host a Marcellus shale seminar for realtors. Participating sponsors include Chesapeake Energy and Century 21. The seminar is scheduled for Thursday, March 18 at 6 p.m. in Penn State Wilkes-Barre's Bell Center for Technology, Lehman, Pa.
Since 1977, the Penn State Interfraternity/Panhellenic Dance Marathon (THON) has raised more than $61 million for the Four Diamonds Fund at Penn State Children's Hospital.
The Northeastern Pennsylvania Technology Institute, under the Pennsylvania Assistance Technology Commercialization Initiative, recently awarded $2,500 to a group of three Penn State Wilkes-Barre students who are completing their senior design project for their baccalaureate degree in Electrical Engineering Technology.
The Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium, a member of the National Space Grant Foundation, recently awarded a $7000 grant to Penn State Wilkes-Barre Engineering Professor Dr. Albert Lozano, funding which Lozano will use to make high-altitude balloon technology available at the campus.