Speakers from the FBI, Vanguard, Wawa, Cerner, and Independence Blue Cross will converge at the Penn State Great Valley campus on Nov. 16 for the annual Tech360 event.
Robin Qiu, professor of information science at Penn State Great Valley, is this year’s recipient of the Volunteer Service Award from the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). Established in 2016, the award recognizes exceptional volunteer service to the organization.
When John J. Sosik published his book “Full Range Leadership Development: Pathways for People, Profit and Planet” in 2010, he had no idea it would spark a unique friendship that resulted in new research opportunities and speaking engagements with the United States Air Force.
Several weeks ago, the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board (PLRB) provided Penn State and the Coalition of Graduate Employees (CGE) with the transcripts from the PLRB hearings that were held on the petition filed by the Pennsylvania State Education Association (PSEA) to unionize Penn State graduate students.
Penn State has added two new courses of study in its homeland security portfolio that can help prepare professionals to combat terrorism and cyber-attacks, through Penn State World Campus.
Kathryn Jablokow, Great Valley engineering professor and associate chief academic officer, and Karen Norheim, campus advisory board member, are working to unify and empower women who work in the manufacturing industry. The two recently traveled to Hartford, Connecticut, where Jablokow led a workshop at the Women in Manufacturing annual summit.
In Iraq, Ahmed Mohammed held a variety of jobs — market research account executive, hotel manager, university lecturer. After noticing a consistent leadership void in all positions, he pursued a graduate program in the United States to develop his potential.
After researching the benefits of an incentive-based rebalancing scheme for a bike sharing system, engineering management student Samarth Patel traveled to Houston to present at the 2017 INFORMS annual meeting.
Vincent DiCastelnuovo earned his bachelor's degree in engineering from Penn State in 2016, and the former student at the Brandywine campus has quickly discovered success in the field.
