Registration is now open for the Penn State Lehigh Valley 2024 Undergraduate Research Symposium, an annual event that gives students the opportunity to share and present research projects. This year’s event is scheduled for Friday, April 5 in room 135. Opportunities available for both preliminary and more developed research projects
Numerous undergraduate research programs in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics are offered at Penn State University College campuses, providing students with a special chance early in their post-secondary academic careers.
Two Penn State Lehigh Valley students were awarded JEDI (Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) Fellowships for the 2022-23 academic year and received top recognition for their undergraduate research projects in the areas of disability and racial injustice.
A new research program for students will be launched this coming fall: The Vice President for Commonwealth Campuses Undergraduate Student Research Fund aims to support student-led projects in different fields. Participants will acquire hands-on experience in research, scholarship, and artistic efforts. They will be responsible for creating their own research problems, study proposals, methodologies, and presenting their findings.
Penn State Lehigh Valley students work with students from Osh University in Uzbekistan to jointly analyze tuberculosis infection rates and formulate predictions.
Penn State Schuylkill hosted the 2022 Penn State Eastern Regional Undergraduate Research Symposium on Saturday, April 23. The event featured research from dozens of students across seven campuses: Penn State Abington, Brandywine, Hazleton, Lehigh Valley, Schuylkill, Scranton and York.
Penn State Lehigh Valley once again demonstrated its deep commitment to student scholarship at the campus' annual Undergraduate Research Symposium, held April 4-8.
Eileen Grodziak, instructional designer and adjunct lecturer at Penn State Lehigh Valley, is always looking for unique ways to engage students in her First-Year Experience courses. During the fall 2020 semester, Grodziak and students collaborated with the Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence on a research article on first-year student engagement during COVID-19.
Biobehavioral health students at Penn State Lehigh Valley present findings on how COVID-19 has impacted student mental health at the 92nd annual Eastern Sociological Society conference in Boston.
