Ealy (center) attended and walked at the Penn State Berks commencement ceremony in May 2018 to celebrate with Yazgi and Abouomar. Ealy served as Yazgi’s Schreyer Scholar Thesis supervisor.
Even college students who are not directly suffering from opioid abuse and addiction may be caught up in secondary effects from the epidemic. A team of Penn State Lehigh Valley researchers found that about one in five college students reported in a survey that they knew someone who was addicted to pain medications, and nearly a third said they knew somebody who overdosed on painkillers or heroin. This may cause worry and anxiety above and beyond the typical financial and academic stress that college students face, 研究人员补充说.
玛格丽特基督教, associate professor of English, received the 2018 Outstanding 教师 Award in 研究 from Tina Q. 理查森, chancellor of Penn State Lehigh Valley and Douglas Hochstetler, interim director of academic affairs (not pictured).
Penn State Lehigh Valley students Zoha Babar, Sheherbano Hussain and Jimmy Hadid, and Associate Professor of Biology Jacqueline S. 麦克劳林, gathered in front of their poster titled, "The Potential of Coating Polyurethane with ‘Self-like’ Molecules to Reduce the Host Response to Implanted Medical Devices." They took second place in the Biological Sciences and Health category at the Penn State Eastern Regional Undergraduate 研究 Symposium at Penn State Abington on April 21. Their poster was also presented at the 2018 Undergraduate 研究 Exhibition in University Park.
托德Retzlaff, associate professor of mathematics at Penn State Lehigh Valley, was the featured keynote speaker at the Undergraduate 研究 Symposium on April 5.
Some of the winning students from the Undergraduate 研究 Symposium posed together on April 5 at the Lehigh Valley campus with three of the faculty mentors, Tracey Carbonetto (far left), Jennifer Parker (second from left), and Jacqueline 麦克劳林 (far right).
Penn State Lehigh Valley Chancellor Tina Q. 理查森, 中国博彩平台 President Eric J. Barron and Vice President of Commonwealth Campuses Madlyn L. Hanes visited with nine-year-old Kedar Narayann, who is one of the Lehigh Valley LaunchBox grant recipients, at the Invent Penn State in the Capitol Day on Feb. 5岁，哈里斯堡. Narayann was displaying his game Codeylocks, which helps kids learn algorithms and how to code.
