Shara McCallum, 2021-22 Penn State Laureate and Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English, will visit Penn State Hazleton to read from her works and host a Q&A session on Thursday, Oct. 21. The event, which will take place at 12:15 p.m. in 115 Evelyn Graham Academic Building, is free and open to the public.
On Wednesday, Oct. 20, Penn State Hazleton will host Fresh Check Day, an interactive health and wellness fair aimed at raising awareness of mental and physical health. The fair also will feature food, entertainment and giveaways.
A $7,500 grant will help the campus Student Success Center strengthen and expand its academic services in support of second-year students, including offering workshops on topics like stress management, learning strategies, effective communication, leadership and more.
Penn State Hazleton is encouraging students to protect themselves this flu season by taking advantage of a free flu vaccine clinic at the campus Health Center on Monday, Oct. 11.
Penn State Hazleton’s second-dose Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccination clinic for students, employees, and anyone age 12 and older will be held Thursday, Sept. 30 for those who received the first dose at the Sept. 8 clinic. First doses will also be available to those who wish to become vaccinated.
Open to high school sophomores, juniors and seniors, the seven-week virtual challenge is designed to teach students key strategies for launching a product or startup, how to identify and solve problems, and how to work together as a team.
Students are invited to learn about research being conducted by faculty and explore opportunities to get involved with those projects at the virtual Hazleton Research Exposition from Oct. 4-8.
Campus alumni Kevin Hinkle, lecturer in engineering mechanics, and Zena-Marie Lewoc, lecturer in economics, joined the Hazleton faculty for the 2021-22 academic year.
Beatriz García Glick, associate teaching professor of Spanish at Penn State Hazleton, has published a freely accessible digital Spanish textbook written with the help of Pennsylvania Grants for Open and Affordable Learning as part of an effort to decrease student costs through open educational materials.
