"Remote Teaching: Tools, Tips, and Hints," a four-week course, is being offered via Zoom through Penn State York Continuing Education in partnership with other Penn State campuses.
Penn State Laureate William Doan visited Penn State York on November 6 and worked with a class along with doing a public presentation during common hour. Students had the chance to meet Doan and learn about his work and The Anxiety Project.
Penn State York celebrated the success of its year-long fundraising drive to purchase books for the York County Head Start, Early Head Start, and Pre-K Head Start programs of the Community Progress Council. The campaign raised $2,316 allowing for the purchase of 520 copies of “Not a Box” in English and 174 in Spanish, which were given to children in all their programs. In addition, 117 copies of “Barnyard Banter” were donated for the Pre-K program. The Penn State York Nittany Lion presented copies of the “Not a Box” book to children from one class at the Community Progress Council on April 10. This project was a partnership between Penn State York, Martin Library, and the Community Progress Council.
Learn more about the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at Penn State York during a Zoom open house set for Monday, June 8 at 10 a.m. Top row, left to right, Steve Beck, OLLI member; Jennifer Geubtner-May, director of OLLI at Penn State York; and bottom row, left to right, Charlie Hoffman and Joan Fulton, OLLI members, who will participate in the open house.
Improving their "spidey-sense," the spider women of Penn State York spent the summer of 2018 studying their eight-legged friends, the common house spider, as part of an undergraduate research project with Jessica Petko, assistant professor of biology. Mackenzie Nolt, Kathryn Bruce, Jessica Petko, Madison Winkowski, and Mindy Gruzin, left to right, were part of The Petko Lab. Bruce, Gruzin, and Winkowski were recipients of the Rodney A. Erickson Discovery Grant and received $3,500 each to do research with Petko. Bruce also received a $500 Academy of Science Grant. All four students graduated on May 9, 2020.
