A new research program for students will be launched this coming fall: The Vice President for Commonwealth Campuses Undergraduate Student Research Fund aims to support student-led projects in different fields. Participants will acquire hands-on experience in research, scholarship, and artistic efforts. They will be responsible for creating their own research problems, study proposals, methodologies, and presenting their findings.
Through working on his early stage undergraduate research project, Penn State Abington senior Dante Thomas is developing skills that are transferable to graduate school and a variety of careers.
A Penn State Abington engineering major is flourishing academically and laying the groundwork for the future by capitalizing on opportunities open to undergraduates, including research and presenting at professional conferences with the support of his faculty mentor.
Lixian Yan has been named the fall 2022 student marshal for the Penn State College of Engineering. She will receive her bachelor of science degree with a double major in electrical engineering from the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science within the College of Engineering and in physics (electronics option) from the Eberly College of Science. Yan attended Penn State Abington before transitioning to the University Park campus.
Penn State Abington students involved in undergraduate research quickly designed ways to present their findings online. It mirrors a global effort as many academic conferences transitioned to online due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Adriana Vagelli was watching a story unfold on a local television newscast. “It was about graves from an old cemetery accidentally being dug up in Old City (Philadelphia),” the Penn State Abington senior said. “They wanted to identify the people who were buried there. I was interested and wanted to get involved.”
A group of Penn State Abington students examined rare materials and discussed research with renowned scholars recently at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., which houses the world’s largest collection of the works of William Shakespeare and is the premier site to research the culture of Shakespeare’s England.
Jivaka.net — the recently-released project of C. Pierce Salguero, associate professor of Asian history and religious studies at Penn State Abington — is the product of a years-long survey of Buddhist temples and centers located in the Philadelphia area. Much of the research legwork for the site was completed by undergraduate students working with Salguero.
Penn State University Libraries awarded its Undergraduate Research Award: Excellence in Information Literacy to students at nearly all undergraduate Penn State campuses in April, honoring 97 undergraduate students as well as eight graduate students participating in their respective campus-wide research exhibition events.
Penn State Hazleton hosted the ninth Eastern Regional Undergraduate Research Symposium, providing students from seven eastern universities the opportunity to display their research. More than 45 students participated in this year’s symposium.
