On Monday, January 18, Penn State Wilkes-Barre hosted the five northeast regional Penn State campuses for the second annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day "ON" Community Service Event.
The Penn State Wilkes-Barre Wall of Fame, funded by the Penn State Wilkes-Barre Alumni Constituent Society, was established to recognize outstanding athletic and academic achievements of our student athletes as well as achievements of our coaches, administration, and teams.
At a recent Penn State Wilkes-Barre basketball game, the first three inductees to the Penn State Wilkes-Barre Wall of Fame were honored:
Based on the latest United States Collegiate Athletic Association Division II Coaches Poll, the Penn State Wilkes-Barre Men's Basketball program is now the 16th ranked team in the country.  An overnight trip to the Pittsburgh area this past weekend (January 22-23) justified the Mountain Lions' lofty ranking, as they defeated 17th ranked Penn State New Kensington 88-82 on Friday night.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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