Students from Penn State Lehigh Valley swept the top spots at the Penn State Regional Undergraduate Research Symposium held at Penn State Brandywine on Apr. 19. Kamil Payano Sosa, a sophomore psychology major from Allentown, took first place in the humanities category with her poster, "Economic Recession and Students' Stress Levels." Vinod Jeyaretnam, a junior from Nazareth, took first place in the STEM category with his poster, "Chronotropic Effects of Select Cardiovascular Drugs on the Developing Vertebrate Embryonic Heart." (more)
One of the benefits students have at a major national research university like Penn State is not only learning from faculty in the classroom but also working alongside them -- in the laboratory or the library -- doing research. Undergraduate students like Christine Theberge and Josh Yeh, who are conducting their own undergraduate research, and those who hold research assistant positions have the opportunity to expand their knowledge in areas of academic interest while developing valuable research skills and relevant work experience. (more)
Think changing your car battery is a hassle? Try replacing a battery attached to the International Space Station. That's just one project students will discuss at the 21st annual Undergraduate Student Research and Creative Accomplishment Conference at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, on April 14. The sessions, which are free and open to the public, begin at 8 a.m. in Roche Hall and the Witkoswki Building classrooms. (more)
Penn State Lehigh Valley will host its annual Undergraduate Research Symposium from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on April 5, in room 135. The keynote address, "Friends in Small Places: Using Eco-Machines to Clean Contaminated Water and Produce Byproducts with Economic Value," will be delivered at 12:15 p.m. by Rachel Brennan, associate professor of engineering at Penn State. The symposium is open to the public. (more)
Logan Bonner, a Penn State Lehigh Valley sophomore, has been chosen to present his research at Pennsylvania's Undergraduate Research at the Capitol (URC-PA) event to be held March 27 in Harrisburg. Bonner's poster, Stimulation of Red Blood Cell Differentiation In Vitro: Replication of a Classic Experiment Enhances Inquiry in the Undergraduate Laboratory, is one of only four selected to represent Penn State at the event.
Penn State Brandywine senior Sara Neville and junior Labanya Mookerjee presented their research projects at the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Conference and Exposition in June at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia. Traveling with these students was their adviser and mentor Laura Guertin, associate professor of Earth sciences. (more)
A recently established partnership with Olympus has placed a state-of-the-art scientific research tool at the fingertips of Penn State Lehigh Valley biology students. Using an Olympus fluorescent microscope, these students are engaging in professional science research at the undergraduate level. Olympus, whose headquarters is just a mile away from the Center Valley campus, provided the technology following a request from Jacqueline McLaughlin, associate professor of biology at Penn State Lehigh Valley. (more)
Penn State Worthington Scranton students and faculty will be showcasing their research projects and findings during the sixth annual Undergraduate Research and Scholarship Fair at the campus from 6 to 9 p.m. Monday, April 25, in the Cafeteria Conference Room in the Study Learning Center. This year, more than 40 research projects are being presented in the areas of biology, chemistry, comparative literature, English, German, human development and family studies, information sciences and technology, kinesiology, mathematics, nursing and physics. (more)
Two students who participated in a study abroad field course with Penn State Lehigh Valley's Professor Jacqueline McLaughlin received first place in their category at Penn State's 2011 Undergraduate Exhibition held April 13 at the HUB-Robeson Center at University Park. Amy Haupt and Michelle O'Malley's entry, "A Pilot Study of the Pollution and Eutrophication of Lake Taihu in Wuxi, China: An Analysis of Water Quality at Three Field Sites," won in the category of course-based projects and was based on research conducted during McLaughlin's 2010 CHANCE field course, Environmental Science and Economic Principles: A Field Study in China. (more)
Dr. Seuss' strange little creature, Sam-I-Am, long ago made green eggs famous. Now, Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences student Angela Richard is drawing the public's attention to purple eggs. Pickled eggs -- with their notable color -- were the focus of her undergraduate research. By analyzing how the pickling process safely removes pathogens from eggs, she made sure that these snacks could be enjoyed harmlessly by anyone who craves them. (more)
