Academics

Penn State Lehigh Valley students recently visited Allentown Art Museum to explore art and math concepts in various works of art. 

Program provides solid foundation for careers in physical therapy, public health and related fields for students at Penn State Lehigh Valley.

Films like “The Godfather” and “Goodfellas” have created indelible stereotypes about those involved in organized crime. This summer, 19 Penn State students learned the real history behind the Mafia during “Organized Crime in Film and Society,“ a three-week course taught on site in different locations in Palermo and Rome, Italy. 

Recently tenured and promoted Penn State faculty across the University were honored Oct. 2 through Penn State’s Promotion and Tenure Recognition Program, now in its 21st year, during a private event held in the Paterno Family Humanities Reading Room on the second floor of Pattee Library at the University Park campus.

After studying social stratification and the roots of the U.S. housing crisis, students in Penn State Lehigh Valley's introduction to sociology class elected to go to the Sixth Street Shelter in Allentown to help rehabilitate apartments. Students completed physical tasks including painting, cleaning, removing debris and minor repairs like clearing plumbing pipes to make the apartments move-in ready. 

Events at Penn State Lehigh Valley inspired a University-wide podcast exploring the journey behind scholarly and creative pursuits across Penn State, and will launch its second season in mid-October. 

For 24 college students, the Danube Delta served as both a classroom and field laboratory for two weeks over the summer. The students — selected from Penn State and nations throughout the European Union — were in Romania as part of the Penn State Connecting Humans and Nature Through Conservation Experiences Program. 

A longtime advocate for open-source materials has edited and written textbook chapters for a leading supplier of free and low-cost course materials.

Pedro Robles, assistant teaching professor of cyber analytics and operations at Penn State Lehigh Valley, has been named to a National Institute of Standards and Technology working group tasked with creating a governance framework around artificial intelligence.

At the end of the spring 2023 semester, six Penn State Commonwealth Campuses named faculty members as Open Champions, recognizing their work with open education in the second year of Penn State’s Open and Affordable Educational Resources (OAER) Champion Awards. A collaboration between Penn State University Libraries and the University-wide OAER Working Group, the OAER Champion Award began as a pilot initiative in 2022 and seeks to recognize excellence, innovation and impact in open educational practices at Penn State campuses.