Penn State Abington’s diversity, equity and inclusion leaders and a county official who serves as an adjunct instructor at the campus were named among the most influential figures in the commonwealth’s LGBTQ+ community.
The 19 interdisciplinary research teams that received funding include more than 75 researchers who are affiliated with 10 colleges and research units across seven Penn State campuses.
A Penn State Abington expert in teaching English as a second language offered strategies to teachers so they can provide equity in language and content learning and social and emotional support to displaced Ukrainian children at a Philadelphia elementary school.
Glenn Sterner III, assistant professor of criminal justice at Penn State Abington, has received the 2023 Outreach and Online Education Emerging Faculty Award for Engaged Scholarship. The Emerging Faculty Outreach Award is a University-wide honor that recognizes early-career tenure-track and non-tenure-track faculty members whose work has significant potential to advance engaged scholarship through teaching, research and/or service.
The Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence announced the inaugural recipients of its spring 2023 Advancing Equity and Inclusion grants. The aim of the grant program is to enable change at a broad level and focus on a program, department, division, college or campus.
Two gifts totaling $50,000 are kicking off an international research project led by Penn State Abington professor Pierce Salguero into the diagnosis and treatment of meditation sickness, a largely unknown occurrence in practitioners of intensive meditation.
Chancellor Margo DelliCarpini announced the appointment of Boni Wozolek, assistant professor of education, as Penn State Abington’s first cabinet-level director of diversity, equity, and inclusive excellence.
Pieces created by two Penn State Abington art faculty are debuting in exhibitions in Philadelphia this fall, one at the Philadelphia International Airport and the other at the National Liberty Museum in Old City.
Digital photography instructor Walter Plotnick brings his vast experience as a commercial and fine artist into his work with Penn State Abington students.
Diane Rosenbaum, assistant professor of psychology at Penn State Abington, explains that weight bias or negative attitudes toward higher weight is a key risk factor for mental health challenges including eating disorder symptoms, depression, and negative body image.
